Deuteronomy 16:5

16:5 You may not sacrifice the Passover in just any of your villages ¹  that the Lord your God is giving you,

Deuteronomy 23:16

23:16 Indeed, he may live among you in any place he chooses, in whichever of your villages ²  he prefers; you must not oppress him.

Deuteronomy 28:52

28:52 They will besiege all of your villages ³  until all of your high and fortified walls collapse – those in which you put your confidence throughout the land. They will besiege all your villages throughout the land the Lord your God has given you.

Deuteronomy 16:18

Provision for Justice

16:18 You must appoint judges and civil servants ⁴  for each tribe in all your villages ⁵  that the Lord your God is giving you, and they must judge the people fairly. ⁶ 

Deuteronomy 12:15

Regulations for Profane Slaughter

12:15 On the other hand, you may slaughter and eat meat as you please when the Lord your God blesses you ⁷  in all your villages. ⁸  Both the ritually pure and impure may eat it, whether it is a gazelle or an ibex.

Deuteronomy 15:7

The Spirit of Liberality

15:7 If a fellow Israelite ⁹  from one of your villages ¹⁰  in the land that the Lord your God is giving you should be poor, you must not harden your heart or be insensitive ¹¹  to his impoverished condition. ¹² 

Deuteronomy 17:2

17:2 Suppose a man or woman is discovered among you – in one of your villages ¹³  that the Lord your God is giving you – who sins before the Lord your God ¹⁴  and breaks his covenant

Deuteronomy 17:5

17:5 you must bring to your city gates ¹⁵  that man or woman who has done this wicked thing – that very man or woman – and you must stone that person to death. ¹⁶ 

Deuteronomy 18:6

18:6 Suppose a Levite comes by his own free will ¹⁷  from one of your villages, from any part of Israel where he is living, ¹⁸  to the place the Lord chooses

Deuteronomy 28:55

28:55 He will withhold from all of them his children’s flesh that he is eating (since there is nothing else left), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict ¹⁹  you in your villages.

[16:5]  ¹ tn Heb “gates.”

[23:16]  ² tn Heb “gates.”

[28:52]  ³ tn Heb “gates,” also in vv. 55, 57.

[16:18]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew term וְשֹׁטְרִים (vÿshoterim), usually translated “officers” (KJV, NCV) or “officials” (NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT), derives from the verb שֹׁטֵר (shoter, “to write”). The noun became generic for all types of public officials. Here, however, it may be appositionally epexegetical to “judges,” thus resulting in the phrase, “judges, that is, civil officers,” etc. Whoever the שֹׁטְרִים are, their task here consists of rendering judgments and administering justice.

[16:18]  ⁵ tn Heb “gates.”

[16:18]  ⁶ tn Heb “with judgment of righteousness”; ASV, NASB “with righteous judgment.”

[12:15]  ⁵ tn Heb “only in all the desire of your soul you may sacrifice and eat flesh according to the blessing of the Lord your God which he has given to you.”

[12:15]  ⁶ tn Heb “gates” (so KJV, NASB; likewise in vv. 17, 18).

[15:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “one of your brothers” (so NASB); NAB “one of your kinsmen”; NRSV “a member of your community.” See the note at v. 2.

[15:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “gates.”

[15:7]  ⁸ tn Heb “withdraw your hand.” Cf. NIV “hardhearted or tightfisted” (NRSV and NLT similar).

[15:7]  ⁹ tn Heb “from your needy brother.”

[17:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “gates.”

[17:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “does the evil in the eyes of the Lord your God.”

[17:5]  ⁸ tn Heb “gates.”

[17:5]  ⁹ tn Heb “stone them with stones so that they die” (KJV similar); NCV “throw stones at that person until he dies.”

[18:6]  ⁹ tn Heb “according to all the desire of his soul.”

[18:6]  ¹⁰ tn Or “sojourning.” The verb used here refers to living temporarily in a place, not settling down.

[28:55]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “besiege,” redundant with the noun “siege.”