Deuteronomy 13:6

False Prophets in the Family

13:6 Suppose your own full brother, ¹  your son, your daughter, your beloved wife, or your closest friend should seduce you secretly and encourage you to go and serve other gods ²  that neither you nor your ancestors ³  have previously known, ⁴ 

Deuteronomy 17:2

17:2 Suppose a man or woman is discovered among you – in one of your villages ⁵  that the Lord your God is giving you – who sins before the Lord your God ⁶  and breaks his covenant

Deuteronomy 20:14

20:14 However, the women, little children, cattle, and anything else in the city – all its plunder – you may take for yourselves as spoil. You may take from your enemies the plunder that the Lord your God has given you.

Deuteronomy 21:13

21:13 discard the clothing she was wearing when captured, ⁷  and stay ⁸  in your house, lamenting for her father and mother for a full month. After that you may have sexual relations ⁹  with her and become her husband and she your wife.

Deuteronomy 22:14

22:14 accusing her of impropriety ¹⁰  and defaming her reputation ¹¹  by saying, “I married this woman but when I had sexual relations ¹²  with her I discovered she was not a virgin!”

Deuteronomy 22:19

22:19 They will fine him one hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, for the man who made the accusation ¹³  ruined the reputation ¹⁴  of an Israelite virgin. She will then become his wife and he may never divorce her as long as he lives.

Deuteronomy 22:29

22:29 The man who has raped her must pay her father fifty shekels of silver and she must become his wife because he has violated her; he may never divorce her as long as he lives.

Deuteronomy 24:1

24:1 If a man marries a woman and she does not please him because he has found something offensive ¹⁵  in her, then he may draw up a divorce document, give it to her, and evict her from his house.

Deuteronomy 24:3-4

24:3 If the second husband rejects ¹⁶  her and then divorces her, ¹⁷  gives her the papers, and evicts her from his house, or if the second husband who married her dies, 24:4 her first husband who divorced her is not permitted to remarry ¹⁸  her after she has become ritually impure, for that is offensive to the Lord. ¹⁹  You must not bring guilt on the land ²⁰  which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

Deuteronomy 31:12

31:12 Gather the people – men, women, and children, as well as the resident foreigners in your villages – so they may hear and thus learn about and fear the Lord your God and carefully obey all the words of this law.

[13:6]  ¹ tn Heb “your brother, the son of your mother.” In a polygamous society it was not rare to have half brothers and sisters by way of a common father and different mothers.

[13:6]  ² tn In the Hebrew text these words are in the form of a brief quotation: “entice you secretly saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods.’”

[13:6]  ³ tn Heb “fathers” (also in v. 17).

[13:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “which you have not known, you or your fathers.” (cf. KJV, ASV; on “fathers” cf. v. 18).

[17:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “gates.”

[17:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “does the evil in the eyes of the Lord your God.”

[21:13]  ⁹ tn Heb “she is to…remove the clothing of her captivity” (cf. NASB); NRSV “discard her captive’s garb.”

[21:13]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “sit”; KJV, NASB, NRSV “remain.”

[21:13]  ¹¹ tn Heb “go unto,” a common Hebrew euphemism for sexual relations.

[22:14]  ¹³ tn Heb “deeds of things”; NRSV “makes up charges against her”; NIV “slanders her.”

[22:14]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “brings against her a bad name”; NIV “gives her a bad name.”

[22:14]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “drew near to her.” This is another Hebrew euphemism for having sexual relations.

[22:19]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “for he”; the referent (the man who made the accusation) has been specified in the translation to avoid confusion with the young woman’s father, the last-mentioned male.

[22:19]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “brought forth a bad name.”

[24:1]  ²¹ tn Heb “nakedness of a thing.” The Hebrew phrase עֶרְוַת דָּבָר (’ervat davar) refers here to some gross sexual impropriety (see note on “indecent” in Deut 23:14). Though the term usually has to do only with indecent exposure of the genitals, it can also include such behavior as adultery (cf. Lev 18:6-18; 20:11, 17, 20-21; Ezek 22:10; 23:29; Hos 2:10).

[24:3]  ²⁵ tn Heb “hates.” See note on the word “other” in Deut 21:15.

[24:3]  ²⁶ tn Heb “writes her a document of divorce.”

[24:4]  ²⁹ tn Heb “to return to take her to be his wife.”

[24:4]  ³⁰ sn The issue here is not divorce and its grounds per se but prohibition of remarriage to a mate whom one has previously divorced.

[24:4]  ³¹ tn Heb “cause the land to sin” (so KJV, ASV).