Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 1:19 
Context1:19 Then we left Horeb and passed through all that immense, forbidding wilderness that you saw on the way to the Amorite hill country as the Lord our God had commanded us to do, finally arriving at Kadesh Barnea.
Deuteronomy 2:1
Context2:1 Then we turned and set out toward the desert land on the way to the Red Sea 1 just as the Lord told me to do, detouring around Mount Seir for a long time.
Deuteronomy 2:8
Context2:8 So we turned away from our relatives 2 the descendants of Esau, the inhabitants of Seir, turning from the desert route, 3 from Elat 4 and Ezion Geber, 5 and traveling the way of the Moab wastelands.
Deuteronomy 3:3
Context3:3 So the Lord our God did indeed give over to us King Og of Bashan and his whole army and we struck them down until not a single survivor was left. 6
Deuteronomy 3:12
Context3:12 This is the land we brought under our control at that time: The territory extending from Aroer 7 by the Wadi Arnon and half the Gilead hill country with its cities I gave to the Reubenites and Gadites. 8
Deuteronomy 5:26-27
Context5:26 Who is there from the entire human race 9 who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the middle of the fire as we have, and has lived? 5:27 You go near so that you can hear everything the Lord our God is saying and then you can tell us whatever he 10 says to you; then we will pay attention and do it.”
Deuteronomy 21:20
Context21:20 They must declare to the elders 11 of his city, “Our son is stubborn and rebellious and pays no attention to what we say – he is a glutton and drunkard.”
Deuteronomy 29:29
Context29:29 Secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those that are revealed belong to us and our descendants 12 forever, so that we might obey all the words of this law.
Deuteronomy 30:12-13
Context30:12 It is not in heaven, as though one must say, “Who will go up to heaven to get it for us and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?” 30:13 And it is not across the sea, as though one must say, “Who will cross over to the other side of the sea and get it for us and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?”
1 tn Heb “Reed Sea.” See note on the term “Red Sea” in Deut 1:40.
2 tn Or “brothers”; NRSV “our kin.”
3 tn Heb “the way of the Arabah” (so ASV); NASB, NIV “the Arabah road.”
4 sn Elat was a port city at the head of the eastern arm of the Red Sea, that is, the Gulf of Aqaba (or Gulf of Eilat). Solomon (1 Kgs 9:28), Uzziah (2 Kgs 14:22), and Ahaz (2 Kgs 16:5-6) used it as a port but eventually it became permanently part of Edom. It may be what is known today as Tell el-Kheleifeh. Modern Eilat is located further west along the northern coast. See G. Pratico, “Nelson Glueck’s 1938-1940 Excavations at Tell el-Kheleifeh: A Reappraisal,” BASOR 259 (1985): 1-32.
5 sn Ezion Geber. A place near the Gulf of Aqaba, Ezion-geber must be distinguished from Elat (cf. 1 Kgs 9:26-28; 2 Chr 8:17-18). It was, however, also a port city (1 Kgs 22:48-49). It may be the same as the modern site Gezirat al-Fauran, 15 mi (24 km) south-southwest from Tell el-Kheleifah.
6 tn Heb “was left to him.” The final phrase “to him” is redundant in English and has been left untranslated.
7 tn The words “the territory extending” are not in the Hebrew text; they are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
sn Aroer. See note on this term in Deut 2:36.
8 sn Reubenites and Gadites. By the time of Moses’ address the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh had already been granted permission to settle in the Transjordan, provided they helped the other tribes subdue the occupants of Canaan (cf. Num 32:28-42).
9 tn Heb “who is there of all flesh.”
10 tn Heb “the
11 tc The LXX and Smr read “to the men,” probably to conform to this phrase in v. 21. However, since judicial cases were the responsibility of the elders in such instances (cf. Deut 19:12; 21:3, 6; 25:7-8) the reading of the MT is likely original and correct here.
12 tn Heb “sons” (so NASB); KJV, ASV, NIV, NRSV “children.”
