Deuteronomy 8:12

8:12 When you eat your fill, when you build and occupy good houses,

Deuteronomy 27:6

27:6 You must build the altar of the Lord your God with whole stones and offer burnt offerings on it to the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 22:8

22:8 If you build a new house, you must construct a guard rail ¹  around your roof to avoid being culpable ²  in the event someone should fall from it.

Deuteronomy 28:30

28:30 You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape ³  her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it.

Deuteronomy 13:16

13:16 You must gather all of its plunder into the middle of the plaza ⁴  and burn the city and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God. It will be an abandoned ruin ⁵  forever – it must never be rebuilt again.

[22:8]  ¹ tn Or “a parapet” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV); KJV “a battlement”; NLT “a barrier.”

[22:8]  ² tn Heb “that you not place bloodshed in your house.”

[28:30]  ¹ tc For MT reading שָׁגַל (shagal, “ravish; violate”), the Syriac, Targum, and Vulgate presume the less violent שָׁכַב (shakhav, “lie with”). The unexpected counterpart to betrothal here favors the originality of the MT.

[13:16]  ¹ tn Heb “street.”

[13:16]  ² tn Heb “mound”; NAB “a heap of ruins.” The Hebrew word תֵּל (tel) refers to this day to a ruin represented especially by a built-up mound of dirt or debris (cf. Tel Aviv, “mound of grain”).