Ulangan 1:39

1:39 Also, your infants, who you thought would die on the way, ¹  and your children, who as yet do not know good from bad, ²  will go there; I will give them the land and they will possess it.

Ulangan 3:20

3:20 You must fight ³  until the Lord gives your countrymen victory ⁴  as he did you and they take possession of the land that the Lord your God is giving them on the other side of the Jordan River. Then each of you may return to his own territory that I have given you.”

Ulangan 11:24

11:24 Every place you set your foot ⁵  will be yours; your border will extend from the desert to Lebanon and from the River (that is, the Euphrates) as far as the Mediterranean Sea. ⁶ 

Ulangan 17:14

Provision for Kingship

17:14 When you come to the land the Lord your God is giving you and take it over and live in it and then say, “I will select a king like all the nations surrounding me,”

Ulangan 21:16

21:16 In the day he divides his inheritance ⁷  he must not appoint as firstborn the son of the favorite wife in place of the other ⁸  wife’s son who is actually the firstborn.

Ulangan 30:9

30:9 The Lord your God will make the labor of your hands ⁹  abundantly successful and multiply your children, ¹⁰  the offspring of your cattle, and the produce of your soil. For the Lord your God will once more ¹¹  rejoice over you to make you prosperous ¹²  just as he rejoiced over your ancestors,

Ulangan 33:17

33:17 May the firstborn of his bull bring him honor,

and may his horns be those of a wild ox;

with them may he gore all peoples,

all the far reaches of the earth.

They are the ten thousands of Ephraim, ¹³ 

and they are the thousands of Manasseh.

[1:39]  ¹ tn Heb “would be a prey.”

[1:39]  ² sn Do not know good from bad. This is a figure of speech called a merism (suggesting a whole by referring to its extreme opposites). Other examples are the tree of “the knowledge of good and evil” (Gen 2:9), the boy who knows enough “to reject the wrong and choose the right” (Isa 7:16; 8:4), and those who “cannot tell their right hand from their left” (Jonah 4:11). A young child is characterized by lack of knowledge.

[3:20]  ³ tn The words “you must fight” are not present in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for clarity.

[3:20]  ⁴ tn Heb “gives your brothers rest.”

[11:24]  ⁵ tn Heb “the sole of your foot walks.” The placing of the foot symbolizes conquest and dominion, especially on land or on the necks of enemies (cf. Deut 1:36; Ps 7:13; Isa 63:3 Hab 3:19; Zech 9:13). See E. H. Merrill, NIDOTTE 1:992.

[11:24]  ⁶ tn Heb “the after sea,” that is, the sea behind one when one is facing east, which is the normal OT orientation. Cf. ASV “the hinder sea.”

[21:16]  ⁷ tn Heb “when he causes his sons to inherit what is his.”

[21:16]  ⁸ tn Heb “the hated.”

[30:9]  ⁹ tc The MT reads “hand” (singular). Most versions read the plural.

[30:9]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NIV); NRSV “of your body.”

[30:9]  ¹¹ tn Heb “return and.” The Hebrew verb is used idiomatically here to indicate the repetition of the following action.

[30:9]  ¹² tn The Hebrew text includes “for good.”

[33:17]  ¹³ sn Ephraim and Manasseh were the sons of Joseph who became founders of the two tribes into which Joseph’s descendants were split (Gen 48:19-20). Jacob’s blessing granted favored status to Ephraim; this is probably why Ephraim is viewed here as more numerous than Manasseh.