Deuteronomy 17:2

17:2 Suppose a man or woman is discovered among you – in one of your villages ¹  that the Lord your God is giving you – who sins before the Lord your God ²  and breaks his covenant

Deuteronomy 19:5

19:5 Suppose he goes with someone else ³  to the forest to cut wood and when he raises the ax ⁴  to cut the tree, the ax head flies loose ⁵  from the handle and strikes ⁶  his fellow worker ⁷  so hard that he dies. The person responsible ⁸  may then flee to one of these cities to save himself. ⁹ 

Deuteronomy 21:17

21:17 Rather, he must acknowledge the son of the less loved ¹⁰  wife as firstborn and give him the double portion ¹¹  of all he has, for that son is the beginning of his father’s procreative power ¹²  – to him should go the right of the firstborn.

Deuteronomy 22:14

22:14 accusing her of impropriety ¹³  and defaming her reputation ¹⁴  by saying, “I married this woman but when I had sexual relations ¹⁵  with her I discovered she was not a virgin!”

Deuteronomy 22:22

22:22 If a man is caught having sexual relations with ¹⁶  a married woman ¹⁷  both the man who had relations with the woman and the woman herself must die; in this way you will purge ¹⁸  evil from Israel.

[17:2]  ¹ tn Heb “gates.”

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

[19:5]  ³ tn Heb “his neighbor” (so NAB, NIV); NASB “his friend.”

[19:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “and he raises his hand with the iron.”

[19:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “the iron slips off.”

[19:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “finds.”

[19:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “his neighbor.”

[19:5]  ⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the person responsible for his friend’s death) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[19:5]  ⁹ tn Heb “and live.”

[21:17]  ⁵ tn See note on the word “other” in v. 15.

[21:17]  ⁶ tn Heb “measure of two.” The Hebrew expression פִּי שְׁנַיִם (piy shÿnayim) suggests a two-thirds split; that is, the elder gets two parts and the younger one part. Cf. 2 Kgs 2:9; Zech 13:8. The practice is implicit in Isaac’s blessing of Jacob (Gen 25:31-34) and Jacob’s blessing of Ephraim (Gen 48:8-22).

[21:17]  ⁷ tn Heb “his generative power” (אוֹן, ’on; cf. HALOT 22 s.v.). Cf. NAB “the first fruits of his manhood”; NRSV “the first issue of his virility.”

[22:14]  ⁷ tn Heb “deeds of things”; NRSV “makes up charges against her”; NIV “slanders her.”

[22:14]  ⁸ tn Heb “brings against her a bad name”; NIV “gives her a bad name.”

[22:14]  ⁹ tn Heb “drew near to her.” This is another Hebrew euphemism for having sexual relations.

[22:22]  ⁹ tn Heb “lying with” (so KJV, NASB), a Hebrew idiom for sexual relations.

[22:22]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “a woman married to a husband.”

[22:22]  ¹¹ tn Heb “burn.” See note on the phrase “purge out” in Deut 21:21.