PDF Deuteronomy through 25

deu/18/06.md

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-# from any of your gates out of all Israel where he is living
-
-The word "gates" here is a metonym for the towns that the gates protect. Alternate translation: "from where he is living in any of your towns anywhere in Israel" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])
-
 # desires with all his soul
 
 This is an idiom. Alternate translation: "strongly desires" or "really wants" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-idiom]])

deu/21/09.md

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-# you will put away the innocent blood from your midst
+# you will completely remove the innocent blood from your midst
 
 "you will not be guilty any more of killing an innocent person"
 

deu/22/14.md

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-# then accuses her of shameful things
+# then accuses her of shameful deeds
 
-"then accuses her of having slept with someone before she was married"
+"then accuses her of having had sexual relations with someone else before she was married"
 
 # puts a bad reputation on her
 

deu/22/23.md

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 Moses speaks to the Israelites as if they were one man, so the word "you" is singular. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-you]])
 
-# engaged to a man
+# betrothed to a man
 
 "who is promised to marry a man"
 

deu/22/25.md

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-# the engaged girl
+# the betrothed girl
 
 a girl whose parents have agreed to let her marry a certain man, but she has not married him yet
 

deu/22/28.md

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-# but who is not engaged
+# but who is not betrothed
 
 "but whose parents have not promised another man that she will marry him"
 

deu/23/10.md

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-# any man who is unclean because of what happened to him at night
+# any man who is unclean because of a nighttime accident
 
 This is a polite way of saying that he had an emission of semen. Alternate translation: "any man who is unclean because he had an emission of semen while he was asleep" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-euphemism]])
 

deu/24/01.md

@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@ The phrases "takes a wife" and "marries her" mean the same thing. Alternate tran
 
 Here the "eyes" represent the whole person. Alternate translation: "if he decides that he does not like her" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-synecdoche]])
 
-# because he has found some unsuitable thing in her
+# because he has found something shameful about her
 
-"because for some reason he has decided that he does not want to keep her"
+The word translated "shameful" here implies sexual immorality.
 
 # he must write her a certificate of divorce
 

deu/24/04.md

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-# after she has become impure
+# after she has become unclean
 
 The full meaning of this statement can be made explicit. Alternate translation: "after she has become unclean by the divorce and remarriage to another man" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit]])
 

deu/25/02.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "If the judge orders t
 
 This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "he will watch them beat him" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive]])
 
-# with the ordered number of blows, as was his crime
+# with the ordered number of blows, according to his wickedness
 
 "the number of times he has ordered because of the bad deed he did"
 

deu/26/02.md

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-# some of the first of all the harvest
+# some of the first of all the crops
 
-"some of the first fruits of the harvest" or "some of the first crops of the harvest." This "first" is the ordinal number for one. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-ordinal]])
+"some of the first fruits of the crops" or "some of the first crops of the harvest." This "first" is the ordinal number for one. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-ordinal]])
 
 # make a dwelling for his name