Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 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 22:16-17
Context22:16 The young woman’s father must say to the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man and he has rejected 1 her. 22:17 Moreover, he has raised accusations of impropriety by saying, ‘I discovered your daughter was not a virgin,’ but this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity!” The cloth must then be spread out 2 before the city’s elders.
Deuteronomy 7:3
Context7:3 You must not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,
Deuteronomy 18:10
Context18:10 There must never be found among you anyone who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, 3 anyone who practices divination, 4 an omen reader, 5 a soothsayer, 6 a sorcerer, 7
Deuteronomy 28:56
Context28:56 Likewise, the most 8 tender and delicate of your women, who would never think of putting even the sole of her foot on the ground because of her daintiness, 9 will turn against her beloved husband, her sons and daughters,
Deuteronomy 16:14
Context16:14 You are to rejoice in your festival, you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows who are in your villages. 10
Deuteronomy 13:6
Context13:6 Suppose your own full brother, 11 your son, your daughter, your beloved wife, or your closest friend should seduce you secretly and encourage you to go and serve other gods 12 that neither you nor your ancestors 13 have previously known, 14
Deuteronomy 12:18
Context12:18 Only in the presence of the Lord your God may you eat these, in the place he 15 chooses. This applies to you, your son, your daughter, your male and female servants, and the Levites 16 in your villages. In that place you will rejoice before the Lord your God in all the output of your labor. 17
Deuteronomy 16:11
Context16:11 You shall rejoice before him 18 – you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites in your villages, 19 the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows among you – in the place where the Lord chooses to locate his name.
Deuteronomy 5:14
Context5:14 but the seventh day is the Sabbath 20 of the Lord your God. On that day you must not do any work, you, your son, your daughter, your male slave, your female slave, your ox, your donkey, any other animal, or the foreigner who lives with you, 21 so that your male and female slaves, like yourself, may have rest.
Deuteronomy 23:17
Context23:17 There must never be a sacred prostitute 22 among the young women 23 of Israel nor a sacred male prostitute 24 among the young men 25 of Israel.
[22:16] 1 tn Heb “hated.” See note on the word “other” in Deut 21:15.
[22:17] 1 tn Heb “they will spread the garment.”
[18:10] 1 tn Heb “who passes his son or his daughter through the fire.” The expression “pass…through the fire” is probably a euphemism for human sacrifice (cf. NAB, NIV, TEV, NLT). See also Deut 12:31.
[18:10] 2 tn Heb “a diviner of divination” (קֹסֵם קְסָמִים, qosem qÿsamim). This was a means employed to determine the future or the outcome of events by observation of various omens and signs (cf. Num 22:7; 23:23; Josh 13:22; 1 Sam 6:2; 15:23; 28:8; etc.). See M. Horsnell, NIDOTTE 3:945-51.
[18:10] 3 tn Heb “one who causes to appear” (מְעוֹנֵן, mÿ’onen). Such a practitioner was thought to be able to conjure up spirits or apparitions (cf. Lev 19:26; Judg 9:37; 2 Kgs 21:6; Isa 2:6; 57:3; Jer 27:9; Mic 5:11).
[18:10] 4 tn Heb “a seeker of omens” (מְנַחֵשׁ, mÿnakhesh). This is a subset of divination, one illustrated by the use of a “divining cup” in the story of Joseph (Gen 44:5).
[18:10] 5 tn Heb “a doer of sorcery” (מְכַשֵּׁף, mikhashef). This has to do with magic or the casting of spells in order to manipulate the gods or the powers of nature (cf. Lev 19:26-31; 2 Kgs 17:15b-17; 21:1-7; Isa 57:3, 5; etc.). See M. Horsnell, NIDOTTE 2:735-38.
[28:56] 1 tc The LXX adds σφόδρα (sfodra, “very”) to bring the description into line with v. 54.
[28:56] 2 tn Heb “delicateness and tenderness.”
[16:14] 1 tn Heb “in your gates.”
[13:6] 1 tn Heb “your brother, the son of your mother.” In a polygamous society it was not rare to have half brothers and sisters by way of a common father and different mothers.
[13:6] 2 tn In the Hebrew text these words are in the form of a brief quotation: “entice you secretly saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods.’”
[13:6] 3 tn Heb “fathers” (also in v. 17).
[13:6] 4 tn Heb “which you have not known, you or your fathers.” (cf. KJV, ASV; on “fathers” cf. v. 18).
[12:18] 1 tn Heb “the
[12:18] 2 tn See note at Deut 12:12.
[12:18] 3 tn Heb “in all the sending forth of your hands.”
[16:11] 1 tn Heb “the
[5:14] 1 tn There is some degree of paronomasia (wordplay) here: “the seventh (הַשְּׁבִיעִי, hashÿvi’i) day is the Sabbath (שַׁבָּת, shabbat).” Otherwise, the words have nothing in common, since “Sabbath” is derived from the verb שָׁבַת (shavat, “to cease”).
[5:14] 2 tn Heb “in your gates”; NRSV, CEV “in your towns”; TEV “in your country.”
[23:17] 1 tn The Hebrew term translated “sacred prostitute” here (קְדֵשָׁה [qÿdeshah], from קַדֵשׁ [qadesh, “holy”]; cf. NIV “shrine prostitute”; NASB “cult prostitute”; NRSV, TEV, NLT “temple prostitute”) refers to the pagan fertility cults that employed female and male prostitutes in various rituals designed to evoke agricultural and even human fecundity (cf. Gen 38:21-22; 1 Kgs 14:24; 15:12; 22:47; 2 Kgs 23:7; Hos 4:14). The Hebrew term for a regular, noncultic (i.e., “secular”) female prostitute is זוֹנָה (zonah).
[23:17] 3 tn The male cultic prostitute was called קָדֵשׁ (qadesh; see note on the phrase “sacred prostitute” earlier in this verse). The colloquial Hebrew term for a “secular” male prostitute (i.e., a sodomite) is the disparaging epithet כֶּלֶב (kelev, “dog”) which occurs in the following verse (cf. KJV, ASV, NAB, NASB).
