Deuteronomy 20:6-7
Context20:6 Or who among you has planted a vineyard and not benefited from it? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else benefit from it. 20:7 Or who among you 1 has become engaged to a woman but has not married her? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else marry her.”
Deuteronomy 28:30
Context28:30 You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape 2 her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it.
Deuteronomy 28:32
Context28:32 Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while you look on in vain all day, and you will be powerless to do anything about it. 3
[20:7] 1 tn Heb “Who [is] the man.”
[28:30] 1 tc For MT reading שָׁגַל (shagal, “ravish; violate”), the Syriac, Targum, and Vulgate presume the less violent שָׁכַב (shakhav, “lie with”). The unexpected counterpart to betrothal here favors the originality of the MT.
[28:32] 1 tn Heb “and there will be no power in your hand”; NCV “there will be nothing you can do.”





