Deuteronomy 1:3

1:3 However, it was not until ¹  the first day of the eleventh month ²  of the fortieth year ³  that Moses addressed the Israelites just as ⁴  the Lord had instructed him to do.

Deuteronomy 1:8

1:8 Look! I have already given the land to you. ⁵  Go, occupy the territory that I, ⁶  the Lord, promised ⁷  to give to your ancestors ⁸  Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants.” ⁹ 

Deuteronomy 11:28

11:28 and the curse if you pay no attention ¹⁰  to his ¹¹  commandments and turn from the way I am setting before ¹²  you today to pursue ¹³  other gods you have not known.

Deuteronomy 19:2

19:2 you must set apart for yourselves three cities ¹⁴  in the middle of your land that the Lord your God is giving you as a possession.

Deuteronomy 33:21

33:21 He has selected the best part for himself,

for the portion of the ruler ¹⁵  is set aside ¹⁶  there;

he came with the leaders ¹⁷  of the people,

he obeyed the righteous laws of the Lord

and his ordinances with Israel.

[1:3]  ¹ tn Heb “in” or “on.” Here there is a contrast between the ordinary time of eleven days (v. 2) and the actual time of forty years, so “not until” brings out that vast disparity.

[1:3]  ² sn The eleventh month is Shebat in the Hebrew calendar, January/February in the modern (Gregorian) calendar.

[1:3]  ³ sn The fortieth year would be 1406 b.c. according to the “early” date of the exodus. See E. H. Merrill, Kingdom of Priests, 66-75.

[1:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “according to all which.”

[1:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “I have placed before you the land.”

[1:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “the Lord.” Since the Lord is speaking, it is preferable for clarity to supply the first person pronoun in the translation.

[1:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “swore” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT). This refers to God’s promise, made by solemn oath, to give the patriarchs the land.

[1:8]  ⁸ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 11, 21, 35).

[1:8]  ⁹ tn Heb “their seed after them.”

[11:28]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “do not listen to,” that is, do not obey.

[11:28]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the commandments of the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[11:28]  ¹² tn Heb “am commanding” (so NASB, NRSV).

[11:28]  ¹³ tn Heb “walk after”; NIV “by following”; NLT “by worshiping.” This is a violation of the first commandment, the most serious of the covenant violations (Deut 5:6-7).

[19:2]  ¹⁴ sn These three cities, later designated by Joshua, were Kedesh of Galilee, Shechem, and Hebron (Josh 20:7-9).

[33:21]  ¹⁵ tn The Hebrew term מְחֹקֵק (mÿkhoqeq; Poel participle of חָקַק, khaqaq, “to inscribe”) reflects the idea that the recorder of allotments (the “ruler”) is able to set aside for himself the largest and best. See E. H. Merrill, Deuteronomy (NAC), 444-45.

[33:21]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “covered in” (if from the root סָפַן, safan; cf. HALOT 764-65 s.v. ספן qal).

[33:21]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “heads” (in the sense of chieftains).