Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 1:35 
Context1:35 “Not a single person 1 of this evil generation will see the good land that I promised to give to your ancestors!
Deuteronomy 23:2-3
Context23:2 A person of illegitimate birth 2 may not enter the assembly of the Lord; to the tenth generation no one related to him may do so. 3
23:3 An Ammonite or Moabite 4 may not enter the assembly of the Lord; to the tenth generation none of their descendants shall ever 5 do so, 6
Deuteronomy 32:5
Context32:5 His people have been unfaithful 7 to him;
they have not acted like his children 8 – this is their sin. 9
They are a perverse 10 and deceitful generation.
Deuteronomy 32:20
Context32:20 He said, “I will reject them, 11
I will see what will happen to them;
for they are a perverse generation,
children 12 who show no loyalty.
1 tn Heb “Not a man among these men.”
2 tn Or “a person born of an illegitimate marriage.”
3 tn Heb “enter the assembly of the
4 sn An Ammonite or Moabite. These descendants of Lot by his two daughters (cf. Gen 19:30-38) were thereby the products of incest and therefore excluded from the worshiping community. However, these two nations also failed to show proper hospitality to Israel on their way to Canaan (v. 4).
5 tn The Hebrew term translated “ever” (עַד־עוֹלָם, ’ad-’olam) suggests that “tenth generation” (vv. 2, 3) also means “forever.” However, in the OT sense “forever” means not “for eternity” but for an indeterminate future time. See A. Tomasino, NIDOTTE 3:346.
6 tn Heb “enter the assembly of the
7 tc The 3rd person masculine singular שָׁחַת (shakhat) is rendered as 3rd person masculine plural by Smr, a reading supported by the plural suffix on מוּם (mum, “defect”) as well as the plural of בֵּן (ben, “sons”).
tn Heb “have acted corruptly” (so NASB, NIV, NLT); NRSV “have dealt falsely.”
8 tn Heb “(they are) not his sons.”
9 tn Heb “defect” (so NASB). This highly elliptical line suggests that Israel’s major fault was its failure to act like God’s people; in fact, they acted quite the contrary.
10 tn Heb “twisted,” “crooked.” See Ps 18:26.
11 tn Heb “I will hide my face from them.”
12 tn Heb “sons” (so NAB, NASB); TEV “unfaithful people.”
