Deuteronomy 1:3

And it came to pass in the fortieth year, etc.] P alone of the Hex. documents dates by months and days (I. P.58, 71); and its division of the year is not that which, beginning with the autumn, prevailed in early Israel, but the Babyl. division which began with the spring. The Babyl. system was first adopted by the Jews, not during the exile (as usually supposed, Marti, Enc. Bibl.-Year"), but, as we gather from Baruch's narratives in the Bk of Jeremiah, during Manasseh's reign, when the Assyrians imposed on Judah many of their institutions (Jerusalem, ii. 189 f.). Another mark of P is the term for eleventhused in the Hex. by P alone and elsewhere only by late writers. Wellh. (Hist.384 f.) takes the verse as from the editor who incorporated D with P, but Driver, as the introd. to a summary narrative in P, and as followed immediately by Deuteronomy 32:48-52; the self-same daythere being the day specified here. On the date the40 th yearand the different dating of JE and D see below on Deuteronomy 2:1-8.

the children of Israel Another designation characteristic of P; D all Israel. See on Deuteronomy 1:1; Deuteronomy 4:44.