translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: DEU

label: NET study note

text: In light of v. 17 this would evidently be blood-stained sheets indicative of the first instance of intercourse. See E. H. Merrill, Deuteronomy (NAC), 302-3.


text: Beginning with 22:30 , the verse numbers through 23:25 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text ( BHS ), with 22:30 ET = 23:1 HT, 23:1 ET = 23:2 HT, 23:2 ET = 23:3 HT, etc., through 23:25 ET = 23:26 HT. With 24:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.


text: This presupposes either the death of the father or their divorce since it would be impossible for one to marry his stepmother while his father was still married to her.