Deuteronomy 18:6

18:6 Suppose a Levite comes by his own free will ¹  from one of your villages, from any part of Israel where he is living, ²  to the place the Lord chooses

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 23:10

23:10 If there is someone among you who is impure because of some nocturnal emission, ¹⁰  he must leave the camp; he may not reenter it immediately.

Deuteronomy 25:5

Respect for the Sanctity of Others

25:5 If brothers live together and one of them dies without having a son, the dead man’s wife must not remarry someone outside the family. Instead, her late husband’s brother must go to her, marry her, ¹¹  and perform the duty of a brother-in-law. ¹² 

Deuteronomy 29:22

29:22 The generation to come – your descendants who will rise up after you, as well as the foreigner who will come from distant places – will see ¹³  the afflictions of that land and the illnesses that the Lord has brought on it.

[18:6]  ¹ tn Heb “according to all the desire of his soul.”

[18:6]  ² tn Or “sojourning.” The verb used here refers to living temporarily in a place, not settling down.

[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.”

[23:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “nocturnal happening.” The Hebrew term קָרֶה (qareh) merely means “to happen” so the phrase here is euphemistic (a “night happening”) for some kind of bodily emission such as excrement or semen. Such otherwise normal physical functions rendered one ritually unclean whether accidental or not. See Lev 15:16-18; 22:4.

[25:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “take her as wife”; NRSV “taking her in marriage.”

[25:5]  ⁸ sn This is the so-called “levirate” custom (from the Latin term levir, “brother-in-law”), an ancient provision whereby a man who died without male descendants to carry on his name could have a son by proxy, that is, through a surviving brother who would marry his widow and whose first son would then be attributed to the brother who had died. This is the only reference to this practice in an OT legal text but it is illustrated in the story of Judah and his sons (Gen 38) and possibly in the account of Ruth and Boaz (Ruth 2:8; 3:12; 4:6).

[29:22]  ⁹ tn Heb “will say and see.” One expects a quotation to appear, but it seems to be omitted. To avoid confusion in the translation, the verb “will say” is omitted.