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 21:13

21:13 discard the clothing she was wearing when captured, ⁵  and stay ⁶  in your house, lamenting for her father and mother for a full month. After that you may have sexual relations ⁷  with her and become her husband and she your wife.

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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.

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

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.

⁴ tn Heb “according to all which.”

⁵ tn Heb “she is to…remove the clothing of her captivity” (cf. NASB); NRSV “discard her captive’s garb.”

⁶ tn Heb “sit”; KJV, NASB, NRSV “remain.”

⁷ tn Heb “go unto,” a common Hebrew euphemism for sexual relations.