Deuteronomy 1:3

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

Deuteronomy 5:26

5:26 Who is there from the entire human race who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the middle of the fire as we have, and has lived?

Deuteronomy 8:13

8:13 when your cattle and flocks increase, when you have plenty of silver and gold, and when you have abundance of everything,

Deuteronomy 24:8

Respect for Human Dignity

24:8 Be careful during an outbreak of leprosy to follow precisely all that the Levitical priests instruct you; as I have commanded them, so you should do.

Deuteronomy 28:26

28:26 Your carcasses will be food for every bird of the sky and wild animal of the earth, and there will be no one to chase them off.

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.

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

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.

tn Heb “according to all which.”

tn Heb “who is there of all flesh.”

tn Heb “to watch carefully and to do.”