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 21:17

21:17 Rather, he must acknowledge the son of the less loved ³  wife as firstborn and give him the double portion ⁴  of all he has, for that son is the beginning of his father’s procreative power ⁵  – to him should go the right of the firstborn.

Deuteronomy 22:22

22:22 If a man is caught having sexual relations with ⁶  a married woman ⁷  both the man who had relations with the woman and the woman herself must die; in this way you will purge ⁸  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.”

[21:17]  ³ tn See note on the word “other” in v. 15.

[21:17]  ⁴ 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]  ⁵ 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.”

[22:22]  ⁵ tn Heb “lying with” (so KJV, NASB), a Hebrew idiom for sexual relations.

[22:22]  ⁶ tn Heb “a woman married to a husband.”

[22:22]  ⁷ tn Heb “burn.” See note on the phrase “purge out” in Deut 21:21.