Deuteronomy 6:22
Context6:22 And he 1 brought signs and great, devastating wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on his whole family 2 before our very eyes.
Deuteronomy 19:19-20
Context19:19 you must do to him what he had intended to do to the accused. In this way you will purge 3 evil from among you. 19:20 The rest of the people will hear and become afraid to keep doing such evil among you.
Deuteronomy 23:9
Context23:9 When you go out as an army against your enemies, guard yourselves against anything impure. 4
Deuteronomy 30:15
Context30:15 “Look! I have set before you today life and prosperity on the one hand, and death and disaster on the other.


[6:22] 1 tn Heb “the
[6:22] 2 tn Heb “house,” referring to the entire household.
[19:19] 3 tn Heb “you will burn out” (בִּעַרְתָּ, bi’arta). Like a cancer, unavenged sin would infect the whole community. It must, therefore, be excised by the purging out of its perpetrators who, presumably, remained unrepentant (cf. Deut 13:6; 17:7, 12; 21:21; 22:21-22, 24; 24:7).
[23:9] 5 tn Heb “evil.” The context makes clear that this is a matter of ritual impurity, not moral impurity, so it is “evil” in the sense that it disbars one from certain religious activity.