Deuteronomy 9:21

9:21 As for your sinful thing ¹  that you had made, the calf, I took it, melted it down, ²  ground it up until it was as fine as dust, and tossed the dust into the stream that flows down the mountain.

Deuteronomy 22:14

22:14 accusing her of impropriety ³  and defaming her reputation ⁴  by saying, “I married this woman but when I had sexual relations ⁵  with her I discovered she was not a virgin!”

[9:21]  ¹ tn Heb “your sin.” This is a metonymy in which the effect (sin) stands for the cause (the metal calf).

[9:21]  ² tn Heb “burned it with fire.”

[22:14]  ³ tn Heb “deeds of things”; NRSV “makes up charges against her”; NIV “slanders her.”

[22:14]  ⁴ tn Heb “brings against her a bad name”; NIV “gives her a bad name.”

[22:14]  ⁵ tn Heb “drew near to her.” This is another Hebrew euphemism for having sexual relations.