Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 1:39 
Context1:39 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.
Deuteronomy 2:12
Context2:12 Previously the Horites 3 lived in Seir but the descendants of Esau dispossessed and destroyed them and settled in their place, just as Israel did to the land it came to possess, the land the Lord gave them.) 4
Deuteronomy 4:5
Context4:5 Look! I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the Lord my God told me to do, so that you might carry them out in 5 the land you are about to enter and possess.
Deuteronomy 4:14
Context4:14 Moreover, at that same time the Lord commanded me to teach you statutes and ordinances for you to keep in the land which you are about to enter and possess. 6
Deuteronomy 5:33
Context5:33 Walk just as he 7 has commanded you so that you may live, that it may go well with you, and that you may live long 8 in the land you are going to possess.
Deuteronomy 9:23
Context9:23 And when he 9 sent you from Kadesh-Barnea and told you, “Go up and possess the land I have given you,” you rebelled against the Lord your God 10 and would neither believe nor obey him.
Deuteronomy 11:8
Context11:8 Now pay attention to all the commandments 11 I am giving 12 you today, so that you may be strong enough to enter and possess the land where you are headed, 13
Deuteronomy 12:1
Context12:1 These are the statutes and ordinances you must be careful to obey as long as you live in the land the Lord, the God of your ancestors, 14 has given you to possess. 15
Deuteronomy 23:20
Context23:20 You may lend with interest to a foreigner, but not to your fellow Israelite; if you keep this command the Lord your God will bless you in all you undertake in the land you are about to enter to possess.
Deuteronomy 28:63
Context28:63 This is what will happen: Just as the Lord delighted to do good for you and make you numerous, he 16 will take delight in destroying and decimating you. You will be uprooted from the land you are about to possess.
Deuteronomy 30:5
Context30:5 Then he 17 will bring you to the land your ancestors 18 possessed and you also will possess it; he will do better for you and multiply you more than he did your ancestors.
Deuteronomy 31:13
Context31:13 Then their children, who have not known this law, 19 will also hear about and learn to fear the Lord your God for as long as you live in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”
Deuteronomy 32:47
Context32:47 For this is no idle word for you – it is your life! By this word you will live a long time in the land you are about to cross the Jordan to possess.”
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.
3 sn Horites. Most likely these are the same as the well-known people of ancient Near Eastern texts described as Hurrians. They were geographically widespread and probably non-Semitic. Genesis speaks of them as the indigenous peoples of Edom that Esau expelled (Gen 36:8-19, 31-43) and also as among those who confronted the kings of the east (Gen 14:6).
4 tn Most modern English versions, beginning with the ASV (1901), regard vv. 10-12 as parenthetical to the narrative.
5 tn Heb “in the midst of” (so ASV).
6 tn Heb “to which you are crossing over to possess it.”
7 tn Heb “the
8 tn Heb “may prolong your days”; NAB “may have long life”; TEV “will continue to live.”
9 tn Heb “the
10 tn Heb “the mouth of the Lord your God,” that is, against the commandment that he had spoken.
11 tn Heb “the commandment.” The singular מִצְוָה (mitsvah, “commandment”) speaks here as elsewhere of the whole corpus of covenant stipulations in Deuteronomy (cf. 6:1, 25; 7:11; 8:1).
12 tn Heb “commanding” (so NASB, NRSV). For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation (likewise in vv. 13, 27).
13 tn Heb “which you are crossing over there to possess it.”
14 tn Heb “fathers.”
15 tn Heb “you must be careful to obey in the land the
16 tn Heb “the
17 tn Heb “the
18 tn Heb “fathers” (also later in this verse and in vv. 9, 20).
19 tn The phrase “this law” is not in the Hebrew text, but English style requires an object for the verb here. Other translations also supply the object which is otherwise implicit (cf. NIV “who do not know this law”; TEV “who have never heard the Law of the Lord your God”).
