Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 20:13 
Context20:13 The Lord your God will deliver it over to you 1 and you must kill every single male by the sword.
Deuteronomy 28:43
Context28:43 The foreigners 2 who reside among you will become higher and higher over you and you will become lower and lower.
Deuteronomy 33:5
Context33:5 The Lord 3 was king over Jeshurun, 4
when the leaders of the people assembled,
the tribes of Israel together. 5
1 tn Heb “to your hands.”
2 tn Heb “the foreigner.” This is a collective singular and has therefore been translated as plural; this includes the pronouns in the following verse, which are also singular in the Hebrew text.
3 tn Heb “he was king.” The present translation avoids the sudden shift in person and the mistaken impression that Moses is the referent by specifying the referent as “the
4 sn Jeshurun is a term of affection referring to Israel, derived from the Hebrew verb יָשַׁר (yashar, “be upright”). See note on the term in Deut 32:15.
5 sn The following blessing is given to the tribes in order, although the tribe of Simeon is curiously missing from the list.
