Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 1:3 
Context1:3 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
Context21:13 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.
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
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.
