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Deuteronomy 19:17-19
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Deuteronomy 19:17-19
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17 then both parties to the controversy must stand before the Lord, that is, before the priests and judges[a] who will be in office in those days. 18 The judges will thoroughly investigate the matter, and if the witness should prove to be false and to have given false testimony against the accused,[b] 19 you must do to him what he had intended to do to the accused. In this way you will purge[c] the evil from among you.
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- Deuteronomy 19:17 tn The appositional construction (“before the Lord, that is, before the priests and judges”) indicates that these human agents represented the Lord himself, that is, they stood in his place (cf. Deut 16:18-20; 17:8-9).
- Deuteronomy 19:18 tn Heb “his brother” (also in the following verse).
- Deuteronomy 19:19 tn Heb “you will burn out” (בִּעַרְתָּ, biʿarta). Like a cancer, unavenged sin would infect the whole community. It must, therefore, be excised by the purging out of its perpetrators who, presumably, remained unrepentant (cf. Deut 13:6; 17:7, 12; 21:21; 22:21-22, 24; 24:7).
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