Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 3:25 
Context3:25 Let me please cross over to see the good land on the other side of the Jordan River – this good hill country and the Lebanon!” 1
Deuteronomy 11:30
Context11:30 Are they not across the Jordan River, 2 toward the west, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah opposite Gilgal 3 near the oak 4 of Moreh?
Deuteronomy 27:2
Context27:2 When you cross the Jordan River 5 to the land the Lord your God is giving you, you must erect great stones and cover 6 them with plaster.
1 tn The article is retained in the translation (“the Lebanon,” cf. also NAB, NRSV) to indicate that a region (rather than the modern country of Lebanon) is referred to here. Other recent English versions accomplish this by supplying “mountains” after “Lebanon” (TEV, CEV, NLT).
2 tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
3 sn Gilgal. From a Hebrew verb root גָלַל (galal, “to roll”) this place name means “circle” or “rolling,” a name given because God had “rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you” (Josh 5:9). It is perhaps to be identified with Khirbet el-Metjir, 1.2 mi (2 km) northeast of OT Jericho.
4 tc The MT plural “oaks” (אֵלוֹנֵי, ’eloney) should probably be altered (with many Greek texts) to the singular “oak” (אֵלוֹן, ’elon; cf. NRSV) in line with the only other occurrence of the phrase (Gen 12:6). The Syriac, Tg. Ps.-J. read mmrá, confusing this place with the “oaks of Mamre” near Hebron (Gen 13:18). Smr also appears to confuse “Moreh” with “Mamre” (reading mwr’, a combined form), adding the clarification mwl shkm (“near Shechem”) apparently to distinguish it from Mamre near Hebron.
5 tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
6 tn Heb “plaster” (so KJV, ASV; likewise in v. 4). In the translation “cover” has been used for stylistic reasons.
