19:14 You must not encroach on your neighbor’s property, 25 which will have been defined 26 in the inheritance you will obtain in the land the Lord your God is giving you. 27
34:1 Then Moses ascended from the deserts of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the summit of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho. 39 The Lord showed him the whole land – Gilead to Dan,
1 sn Caleb had, with Joshua, brought back to Israel a minority report from Canaan urging a conquest of the land, for he was confident of the
2 tn Heb “the
3 sn Aroer. Now known as àAraáir on the northern edge of the Arnon river, Aroer marked the southern limit of Moab and, later, of the allotment of the tribe of Reuben (Josh 13:9, 16).
4 tn Heb “the city in the wadi.” This enigmatic reference may refer to Ar or, more likely, to Aroer itself. Epexegetically the text might read, “From Aroer…, that is, the city in the wadi.” See D. L. Christensen, Deuteronomy 1–11 (WBC), 49.
5 sn Geshurites. Geshur was a city and its surrounding area somewhere northeast of Bashan (cf. Josh 12:5 ; 13:11, 13). One of David’s wives was Maacah, the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur and mother of Absalom (cf. 2 Sam 13:37; 15:8; 1 Chr 3:2).
6 sn Maacathites. These were the people of a territory southwest of Mount Hermon on the Jordan River. The name probably has nothing to do with David’s wife from Geshur (see note on “Geshurites” earlier in this verse).
7 sn Havvoth-Jair. The Hebrew name means “villages of Jair,” the latter being named after a son (i.e., descendant) of Manasseh who took the area by conquest.
8 tn Heb “to which you are crossing over to possess it.”
9 tn Heb “testings” (so NAB), a reference to the plagues. See note at 4:34.
10 tn Heb “the strong hand and outstretched arm.” See 4:34.
11 tn Heb “the
12 tn Heb “the
13 tn Or “wilderness” (so KJV, NRSV, NLT); likewise in v. 15.
14 tn Heb “in order to humble you and in order to test you.” See 8:2.
15 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the
16 tn Heb “according to the former writing.” See note on the phrase “the same words” in v. 2.
17 tn Heb “ten words.” The “Ten Commandments” are known in Hebrew as the “Ten Words,” which in Greek became the “Decalogue.”
18 tn Heb “the
19 tn Heb “the
20 tn Heb “that not.” The words “I am speaking” have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
21 tn Heb “who have not known and who have not seen the discipline of the Lord.” The collocation of the verbs “know” and “see” indicates that personal experience (knowing by seeing) is in view. The term translated “discipline” (KJV, ASV “chastisement”) may also be rendered “instruction,” but vv. 2b-6 indicate that the referent of the term is the various acts of divine judgment the Israelites had witnessed.
22 tn The words “which revealed” have been supplied in the translation to show the logical relationship between the terms that follow and the divine judgments. In the Hebrew text the former are in apposition to the latter.
23 tn Heb “his strong hand and his stretched-out arm.”
24 tn Heb “like the days of the heavens upon the earth,” that is, forever.
25 tn Heb “border.” Cf. NRSV “You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker.”
26 tn Heb “which they set off from the beginning.”
27 tn The Hebrew text includes “to possess it.” This phrase has been left untranslated to avoid redundancy.
28 tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV); CEV “will give you a lot of children.”
29 tn Heb “the
30 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 36, 64).
31 tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NRSV); NASB “the offspring of your own body.”
32 tn Heb “siege and stress.”
33 tn Heb “besiege,” redundant with the noun “siege.”
34 tn Heb includes “that which comes out from between her feet.”
35 tn Heb “her sons that she will bear.”
36 tn Heb includes “in her need for everything.”
37 sn Abarim. This refers to the high plateau region of the Transjordan, the highest elevation of which is Mount Pisgah (or Nebo; cf. Deut 34:1). See also the note on the name “Pisgah” in Deut 3:17.
38 map For the location of Jericho see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.
39 sn For the geography involved, see note on the term “Pisgah” in Deut 3:17.
map For the location of Jericho see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.