Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 4:40 
Context4:40 Keep his statutes and commandments that I am setting forth 1 today so that it may go well with you and your descendants and that you may enjoy longevity in the land that the Lord your God is about to give you as a permanent possession.
Deuteronomy 33:2
Context33:2 He said:
The Lord came from Sinai
and revealed himself 2 to Israel 3 from Seir.
He appeared in splendor 4 from Mount Paran,
and came forth with ten thousand holy ones. 5
With his right hand he gave a fiery law 6 to them.
1 tn Heb “commanding” (so NRSV).
2 tn Or “rose like the sun” (NCV, TEV).
3 tc Heb “to him.” The LXX reads “to us” (לָנוּ [lanu] for לָמוֹ [lamo]), the reading of the MT is acceptable since it no doubt has in mind Israel as a collective singular.
tn Heb “him”; the referent (Israel) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
4 tn Or “he shone forth” (NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).
5 tc With slight alteration (מִמְרִבַת קָדֵשׁ [mimrivat qadesh] for the MT’s מֵרִבְבֹת קֹדֶשׁ [merivvot qodesh]) the translation would be “from Meribah Kadesh” (cf. NAB, NLT; see Deut 32:51). However, the language of holy war in the immediate context favors the reading of the MT, which views the Lord as accompanied by angelic hosts.
6 tc The mispointed Hebrew term אֵשְׁדָּת (’eshdat) should perhaps be construed as אֵשְׁהַת (’eshhat) with Smr.
