Deuteronomy 4:30

4:30 In your distress when all these things happen to you in the latter days, ¹  if you return to the Lord your God and obey him ² 

Deuteronomy 20:11

20:11 If it accepts your terms ³  and submits to you, all the people found in it will become your slaves. ⁴ 

Deuteronomy 21:1

Laws Concerning Unsolved Murder

21:1 If a homicide victim ⁵  should be found lying in a field in the land the Lord your God is giving you, ⁶  and no one knows who killed ⁷  him,

Deuteronomy 22:3

22:3 You shall do the same to his donkey, his clothes, or anything else your neighbor ⁸  has lost and you have found; you must not refuse to get involved. ⁹ 

Deuteronomy 22:17

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 ¹⁰  before the city’s elders.

Deuteronomy 22:25

22:25 But if the man came across ¹¹  the engaged woman in the field and overpowered her and raped ¹²  her, then only the rapist ¹³  must die.

Deuteronomy 24:7

24:7 If a man is found kidnapping a person from among his fellow Israelites, ¹⁴  and regards him as mere property ¹⁵  and sells him, that kidnapper ¹⁶  must die. In this way you will purge ¹⁷  evil from among you.

[4:30]  ¹ sn The phrase is not used here in a technical sense for the eschaton, but rather refers to a future time when Israel will be punished for its sin and experience exile. See Deut 31:29.

[4:30]  ² tn Heb “hear his voice.” The expression is an idiom meaning “obey,” occurring in Deut 8:20; 9:23; 13:18; 21:18, 20; 26:14, 17; 27:10; 28:1-2, 15, 45, 62; 30:2, 8, 10, 20.

[20:11]  ³ tn Heb “if it answers you peace.”

[20:11]  ⁴ 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).

[21:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “slain [one].” The term חָלָל (khalal) suggests something other than a natural death (cf. Num 19:16; 23:24; Jer 51:52; Ezek 26:15; 30:24; 31:17-18).

[21:1]  ⁶ tn The Hebrew text includes “to possess it,” but this has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[21:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “struck,” but in context a fatal blow is meant; cf. NLT “who committed the murder.”

[22:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “your brother” (also in v. 4).

[22:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “you must not hide yourself.”

[22:17]  ⁹ tn Heb “they will spread the garment.”

[22:25]  ¹¹ tn Heb “found,” also in vv. 27, 28.

[22:25]  ¹² tn Heb “lay with” here refers to a forced sexual relationship, as the accompanying verb “seized” (חָזַק, khazaq) makes clear.

[22:25]  ¹³ tn Heb “the man who lay with her, only him.”

[24:7]  ¹³ 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]  ¹⁴ tn Or “and enslaves him.”

[24:7]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “that thief.”

[24:7]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “burn.” See note on the word “purge” in Deut 19:19.