translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: DEU

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “nakedness of a thing.” The Hebrew phrase עֶרְוַת דָּבָר (’ ervat davar ) refers here to some gross sexual impropriety (see note on “indecent” in Deut 23:14 ). Though the term usually has to do only with indecent exposure of the genitals, it can also include such behavior as adultery (cf. Lev 18:6-18; 20:11, 17, 20-21 ; Ezek 22:10; 23:29 ; Hos 2:10 ).


text: Heb “his house.”


text: Heb “hates.” See note on the word “other” in Deut 21:15 .


text: Heb “writes her a document of divorce.”


text: Heb “to return to take her to be his wife.”


text: Heb “cause the land to sin” (so KJV, ASV).


text: Heb “go out with.”


label: NET textual note

text: For the MT’s reading Piel שִׂמַּח ( simmakh , “bring joy to”), the Syriac and others read שָׂמַח ( samakh , “enjoy”).


text: Heb “from his brothers, from the sons of Israel.” The terms “brothers” and “sons of Israel” are in apposition; the second defines the first more specifically.


text: Or “and enslaves him.”


text: Heb “that thief.”


text: Heb “burn.” See note on the word “purge” in Deut 19:19 .


text: Heb “to watch carefully and to do.”


text: Heb “his pledge.” This refers to something offered as pledge of repayment, i.e., as security for the debt.


text: Heb “his pledge.”


text: Heb “may not lie down in his pledge.” What is in view is the use of clothing as guarantee for the repayment of loans, a matter already addressed elsewhere ( Deut 23:19-20; 24:6 ; cf. Exod 22:25-26 ; Lev 25:35-37 ). Cf. NAB “you shall not sleep in the mantle he gives as a pledge”; NRSV “in the garment given you as the pledge.”


text: The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation seeks to reflect with “by all means.”


text: Or “righteous” (so NIV, NLT).


text: Heb “your brothers,” but not limited only to actual siblings; cf. NASB “your (+ own NAB) countrymen.”


text: Heb “who are in your land in your gates.” The word “living” is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.


text: Heb “sons” (so NASB; twice in this verse). Many English versions, including the KJV, read “children” here.


text: Heb “in the field.”


text: Heb “of your hands.” This law was later applied in the story of Ruth who, as a poor widow, was allowed by generous Boaz to glean in his fields ( Ruth 2:1-13 ).


text: Heb “knock down after you.”


text: Heb “glean after you.”