Deuteronomy 12:8
Context12:8 You must not do like we are doing here today, with everyone 1 doing what seems best to him,
Deuteronomy 19:19
Context19:19 you must do to him what he had intended to do to the accused. In this way you will purge 2 evil from among you.
Deuteronomy 25:16
Context25:16 For anyone who acts dishonestly in these ways is abhorrent 3 to the Lord your God.


[19:19] 2 tn Heb “you will burn out” (בִּעַרְתָּ, bi’arta). Like a cancer, unavenged sin would infect the whole community. It must, therefore, be excised by the purging out of its perpetrators who, presumably, remained unrepentant (cf. Deut 13:6; 17:7, 12; 21:21; 22:21-22, 24; 24:7).
[25:16] 3 tn The Hebrew term translated here “abhorrent” (תּוֹעֵבָה, to’evah) speaks of attitudes and/or behaviors so vile as to be reprehensible to a holy God. See note on the word “abhorrent” in Deut 7:25.