² tn The verb is in the second person plural form, and so it is Moses and Aaron who rebelled, and so now because of that Aaron first and then Moses would die without going into the land.

¹ sn The title “my servant” or “servant of the Lord” is reserved in the Bible for distinguished personages, people who are truly spiritual leaders, like Moses, David, Hezekiah, and also the Messiah. Here it underscores Moses’ obedience.

¹ sn Now the last part is recorded in which Moses ascends to Yahweh to receive the tablets of stone. As Moses disappears into the clouds, the people are given a vision of the glory of Yahweh.

³ sn Attention to the preparation for Moses’ departure contributes to the weight of the guilt of the faithless Israelites (chap. 32) and of Aaron, to whom Moses had delegated an important duty.

¹ tn The construction is emphatic: “because you—you solemnly warned us.” Moses’ response to God is to ask how they would break through when God had already charged them not to. God knew them better than Moses did.

¹ tn The line in Hebrew reads literally: And Joshua did as Moses had said to him, to fight with Amalek. The infinitive construct is epexegetical, explaining what Joshua did that was in compliance with Moses’ words.

² sn It is likely that Moses used words very much like this when he prayed. The difference seems to lie in the prepositions—he cried “to” Yahweh, but the people murmured “against” Moses.

³ sn What the prophets and Moses said. Paul argued that his message reflected the hope of the Jewish scriptures.

⁴ sn Pushed him aside. This is the second time Moses is “pushed aside” in Stephen’s account (see v. 27).

² tn Grk “was granting them deliverance.” The narrator explains that this act pictured what Moses could do for his people.

² tn Grk “as they”; the referent (“the men,” referring to Moses and Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹ sn Who prophesy from their imagination. Note the testimony of Moses in Num 16:28, which contains a similar expression.

² sn Verse 14 echoes Deut 32:36, where Moses affirms that God mercifully relents from fully judging his wayward people.

¹ tn Heb “as it is written in the scroll of the law of Moses which the Lord commanded, saying.”

² tn Heb “all that Moses, the Lord’s servant, had commanded, and they did not listen and they did not act.”

² tn Heb “not one word from his entire good word he spoke by Moses his servant has fallen.”

¹ tn Heb “Just as the Lord had commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel did, and they divided up the land.”

¹ tn Heb “There was not a word from all which Moses commanded that Joshua did not read aloud.”

² tn Heb “godly man.” The reference is probably to Moses as representative of the whole tribe of Levi.

¹ tn Heb “this.” The translation uses “that” to avoid confusion; earlier in the verse Moses refers to Transjordan as “this land.”