Deuteronomy 22:21

the door of her father's house Not at the town's gate (as in other cases, Deuteronomy 22:24; Deuteronomy 17:5), because it was her father's house which she had dishonoured. Therefore instead of to play the harlot, etc., read with Sam. LXX. turning her father's house into a harlot's.

folly Rather, senselessness.

Heb. nebalahfrom nabal; -very difficult to render in English. "Fool" and "folly" are inadequate … The fault of the nabalis not weakness of reason, but moral and religious insensibility, a rooted incapacity to discern moral and religious relations, leading to an intolerant repudiation in practice of the claims which they impose … The cognate nabluthoccurs Hosea 2:10 (12) in the sense of immodesty. Senselessand senselessnessmay be suggested as fair English equivalents …" (Driver).

folly in Israel this phrase, implying the sense of a national ideal and standard, a national conscience, which is found in J, Genesis 34:7; Joshua 7:15, and in Judges 20:6; Judges 20:10, does not elsewhere occur in D, and is evidence (so far) that we have here an earlier law interpreted by D.

so shalt thou put away See on Deuteronomy 13:6 (5); and introd. note to this law.