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Deuteronomy 1:39

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1:39 Also, your infants, who you thought would die on the way, 1  and your children, who as yet do not know good from bad, 2  will go there; I will give them the land and they will possess it.

1 tn Heb “would be a prey.”

2 sn Do not know good from bad. This is a figure of speech called a merism (suggesting a whole by referring to its extreme opposites). Other examples are the tree of “the knowledge of good and evil” (Gen 2:9), the boy who knows enough “to reject the wrong and choose the right” (Isa 7:16; 8:4), and those who “cannot tell their right hand from their left” (Jonah 4:11). A young child is characterized by lack of knowledge.



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