translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: DEU

label: NET study note

text: The issue here is not divorce and its grounds per se but prohibition of remarriage to a mate whom one has previously divorced.


text: Taking millstones as security on a loan would amount to taking the owner’s own life in pledge, since the millstones were the owner’s means of earning a living and supporting his family.


text: What the Lord your God did to Miriam . The reference is to Miriam’s having contracted leprosy because of her intemperate challenge to Moses’ leadership ( Num 12:1-15 ). The purpose for the allusion here appears to be the assertion of the theocratic leadership of the priests who, like Moses, should not be despised.