Deuteronomy 22 - Introduction

Nine Laws for Various Occasions and Temptations

All in the Sg. address (and the first two besides with the term brotherusual in the Sg passages) and without the opening formula general in the preceding group and resumed in the following. It is difficult if not impossible to explain their appearance just here in the Code, or the order in which they are arranged. They have, however this in common that they modify some earlier laws or customs, and transform others or forbid others. Steuern."s division of them between his Sg. and Pl. authors is unconvincing.