Deuteronomy 21:18
Context21:18 If a person has a stubborn, rebellious son who pays no attention to his father or mother, and they discipline him to no avail, 1
Deuteronomy 27:22
Context27:22 ‘Cursed is the one who has sexual relations with his sister, the daughter of either his father or mother.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’
Deuteronomy 14:21
Context14:21 You may not eat any corpse, though you may give it to the resident foreigner who is living in your villages 2 and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. You are a people holy to the Lord your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk. 3


[21:18] 1 tn Heb “and he does not listen to them.”
[14:21] 2 tn Heb “gates” (also in vv. 27, 28, 29).
[14:21] 3 sn Do not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk. This strange prohibition – one whose rationale is unclear but probably related to pagan ritual – may seem out of place here but actually is not for the following reasons: (1) the passage as a whole opens with a prohibition against heathen mourning rites (i.e., death, vv. 1-2) and closes with what appear to be birth and infancy rites. (2) In the other two places where the stipulation occurs (Exod 23:19 and Exod 34:26) it similarly concludes major sections. (3) Whatever the practice signified it clearly was abhorrent to the