Ulangan 11:5

11:5 They did not see ¹  what he did to you in the desert before you reached this place,

Ulangan 25:17

Treatment of the Amalekites

25:17 Remember what the Amalekites ²  did to you on your way from Egypt,

¹ tn See note on these same words in v. 3.

² tn Heb “what Amalek” (so NAB, NRSV). Here the individual ancestor, the namesake of the tribe, is cited as representative of the entire tribe at the time Israel was entering Canaan. Consistent with this, singular pronouns are used in v. 18 and the singular name appears again in v. 19. Since readers unfamiliar with the tribe of Amalekites might think this refers to an individual, the term “Amalekites” and the corresponding plural pronouns have been used throughout these verses (cf. NIV, NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT).