Deuteronomy 28:40-41
Context28:40 You will have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourself with olive oil, because the olives will drop off the trees while still unripe. 1 28:41 You will bear sons and daughters but not keep them, because they will be taken into captivity.
Deuteronomy 12:26
Context12:26 Only the holy things and votive offerings that belong to you, you must pick up and take to the place the Lord will choose. 2
Deuteronomy 19:17
Context19:17 then both parties to the controversy must stand before the Lord, that is, before the priests and judges 3 who will be in office in those days.
Deuteronomy 20:11
Context20:11 If it accepts your terms 4 and submits to you, all the people found in it will become your slaves. 5


[28:40] 1 tn Heb “your olives will drop off” (נָשַׁל, nashal), referring to the olives dropping off before they ripen.
[12:26] 2 tc Again, to complete a commonly attested wording the LXX adds after “choose” the phrase “to place his name there.” This shows insensitivity to deliberate departures from literary stereotypes. The MT reading is to be preferred.
[19:17] 3 tn The appositional construction (“before the
[20:11] 4 tn Heb “if it answers you peace.”
[20:11] 5 tn Heb “become as a vassal and will serve you.” The Hebrew term translated slaves (מַס, mas) refers either to Israelites who were pressed into civil service, especially under Solomon (1 Kgs 5:27; 9:15, 21; 12:18), or (as here) to foreigners forced as prisoners of war to become slaves to Israel. The Gibeonites exemplify this type of servitude (Josh 9:3-27; cf. Josh 16:10; 17:13; Judg 1:28, 30-35; Isa 31:8; Lam 1:1).