Job 31:28

31:28 then this ¹  also would be iniquity to be judged, ² 

for I would have been false ³  to God above.

Genesis 38:24

38:24 After three months Judah was told, ⁴  “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has turned to prostitution, ⁵  and as a result she has become pregnant.” ⁶  Judah said, “Bring her out and let her be burned!”

Leviticus 20:10

20:10 If a man ⁷  commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, ⁸  both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.

Deuteronomy 22:22-24

22:22 If a man is caught having sexual relations with ⁹  a married woman ¹⁰  both the man who had relations with the woman and the woman herself must die; in this way you will purge ¹¹  evil from Israel.

22:23 If a virgin is engaged to a man and another man meets ¹²  her in the city and has sexual relations with ¹³  her, 22:24 you must bring the two of them to the gate of that city and stone them to death, the young woman because she did not cry out though in the city and the man because he violated ¹⁴  his neighbor’s fiancée; ¹⁵  in this way you will purge ¹⁶  evil from among you.

Ezekiel 16:38

16:38 I will punish you as an adulteress and murderer deserves. ¹⁷  I will avenge your bloody deeds with furious rage. ¹⁸ 

[31:28]  ¹ tn Heb “it.”

[31:28]  ² tn See v. 11 for the construction. In Deut 17:2ff. false worship of heavenly bodies is a capital offense. In this passage, Job is talking about just a momentary glance at the sun or moon and the brief lapse into a pagan thought. But it is still sin.

[31:28]  ³ tn The verb כָּחַשׁ (kakhash) in the Piel means “to deny.” The root meaning is “to deceive; to disappoint; to grow lean.” Here it means that he would have failed or proven unfaithful because his act would have been a denial of God.

[38:24]  ⁴ tn Heb “it was told to Judah, saying.”

[38:24]  ⁵ tn Or “has been sexually promiscuous.” The verb may refer here to loose or promiscuous activity, not necessarily prostitution.

[38:24]  ⁶ tn Heb “and also look, she is with child by prostitution.”

[20:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “And a man who.” The syntax here and at the beginning of the following verses elliptically mirrors that of v. 9, which justifies the rendering as a conditional clause.

[20:10]  ⁸ tc The reading of the LXX minuscule mss has been followed here (see the BHS footnote a-a). The MT has a dittography, repeating “a man who commits adultery with the wife of” (see the explanation in J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 328). The duplication found in the MT is reflected in some English versions, e.g., KJV, ASV, NASB, NIV.

[22:22]  ⁹ tn Heb “lying with” (so KJV, NASB), a Hebrew idiom for sexual relations.

[22:22]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “a woman married to a husband.”

[22:22]  ¹¹ tn Heb “burn.” See note on the phrase “purge out” in Deut 21:21.

[22:23]  ¹² tn Heb “finds.”

[22:23]  ¹³ tn Heb “lies with.”

[22:24]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “humbled.”

[22:24]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “wife.”

[22:24]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “burn.” See note on the phrase “purge out” in Deut 21:21.

[16:38]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and I will judge you (with) the judgments of adulteresses and of those who shed blood.”

[16:38]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “and I will give you the blood of rage and zeal.”