Deuteronomy 22:8

22:8 If you build a new house, you must construct a guard rail ¹  around your roof to avoid being culpable ²  in the event someone should fall from it.

Deuteronomy 32:17

32:17 They sacrificed to demons, not God,

to gods they had not known;

to new gods who had recently come along,

gods your ancestors ³  had not known about.

Deuteronomy 20:5

20:5 Moreover, the officers are to say to the troops, ⁴  “Who among you ⁵  has built a new house and not dedicated ⁶  it? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else ⁷  dedicate it.

Deuteronomy 24:5

24:5 When a man is newly married, he need not go into ⁸  the army nor be obligated in any way; he must be free to stay at home for a full year and bring joy to ⁹  the wife he has married.

[22:8]  ¹ tn Or “a parapet” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV); KJV “a battlement”; NLT “a barrier.”

[22:8]  ² tn Heb “that you not place bloodshed in your house.”

[32:17]  ³ tn Heb “your fathers.”

[20:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “people” (also in vv. 8, 9).

[20:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “Who [is] the man” (also in vv. 6, 7, 8).

[20:5]  ⁷ tn The Hebrew term חָנַךְ (khanakh) occurs elsewhere only with respect to the dedication of Solomon’s temple (1 Kgs 8:63 = 2 Chr 7:5). There it has a religious connotation which, indeed, may be the case here as well. The noun form (חָנֻכָּה, khanukah) is associated with the consecration of the great temple altar (2 Chr 7:9) and of the postexilic wall of Jerusalem (Neh 12:27). In Maccabean times the festival of Hanukkah was introduced to celebrate the rededication of the temple following its desecration by Antiochus IV Epiphanes (1 Macc 4:36-61).

[20:5]  ⁸ tn Heb “another man.”

[24:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “go out with.”

[24:5]  ⁸ tc For the MT’s reading Piel שִׂמַּח (simmakh, “bring joy to”), the Syriac and others read שָׂמַח (samakh, “enjoy”).