Deuteronomy 24:6

24:6 One must not take either lower or upper millstones as security on a loan, for that is like taking a life itself as security. ¹ 

Deuteronomy 10:22

10:22 When your ancestors went down to Egypt, they numbered only seventy, but now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars of the sky. ² 

Deuteronomy 27:25

27:25 ‘Cursed is the one who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

Deuteronomy 19:11

19:11 However, suppose a person hates someone else ³  and stalks him, attacks him, kills him, ⁴  and then flees to one of these cities.

Deuteronomy 19:21

19:21 You must not show pity; the principle will be a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, and a foot for a foot. ⁵ 

Deuteronomy 24:7

24:7 If a man is found kidnapping a person from among his fellow Israelites, ⁶  and regards him as mere property ⁷  and sells him, that kidnapper ⁸  must die. In this way you will purge ⁹  evil from among you.

Deuteronomy 19:6

19:6 Otherwise the blood avenger will chase after the killer in the heat of his anger, eventually overtake him, ¹⁰  and kill him, ¹¹  though this is not a capital case ¹²  since he did not hate him at the time of the accident.

Deuteronomy 22:26

22:26 You must not do anything to the young woman – she has done nothing deserving of death. This case is the same as when someone attacks another person ¹³  and murders him,

Deuteronomy 28:65

28:65 Among those nations you will have no rest nor will there be a place of peaceful rest for the soles of your feet, for there the Lord will give you an anxious heart, failing eyesight, and a spirit of despair.

[24:6]  ¹ sn Taking millstones as security on a loan would amount to taking the owner’s own life in pledge, since the millstones were the owner’s means of earning a living and supporting his family.

[10:22]  ² tn Or “heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.

[19:11]  ³ tn Heb “his neighbor.”

[19:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “rises against him and strikes him fatally.”

[19:21]  ⁴ sn This kind of justice is commonly called lex talionis or “measure for measure” (cf. Exod 21:23-25; Lev 24:19-20). It is likely that it is the principle that is important and not always a strict application. That is, the punishment should fit the crime and it may do so by the payment of fines or other suitable and equitable compensation (cf. Exod 22:21; Num 35:31). See T. S. Frymer-Kensky, “Tit for Tat: The Principle of Equal Retribution in Near Eastern and Biblical Law,” BA 43 (1980): 230-34.

[24:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “from his brothers, from the sons of Israel.” The terms “brothers” and “sons of Israel” are in apposition; the second defines the first more specifically.

[24:7]  ⁶ tn Or “and enslaves him.”

[24:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “that thief.”

[24:7]  ⁸ tn Heb “burn.” See note on the word “purge” in Deut 19:19.

[19:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “and overtake him, for the road is long.”

[19:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “smite with respect to life,” that is, fatally.

[19:6]  ⁸ tn Heb “no judgment of death.”

[22:26]  ⁷ tn Heb “his neighbor.”