E. Chs. 31 34. Last Days and Discourses of Moses The Laws and Discourses accompanying are at an end (cp. Deuteronomy 31:1) except for some belated fragments, Deuteronomy 31:9-13 (24 26?), Deuteronomy 32:45-47, that contain only one fresh statement: that Moses wrote the Law. The remaining chs. thoug... [ Continue Reading ]
_went and spake these words_ This can only refer to something preceding; see small print above. But LXX read _finished speaking these words_.... [ Continue Reading ]
_an hundred and twenty years old_ So P Deuteronomy 34:7, cp. Exodus 7:7. As we have seen, dates in the Pent. are nearly all from P; 120 = 3 × 40, the usual round number for a generation. _go out and come in_ See on Deuteronomy 13:13 (14) and Deuteronomy 28:6. _the Lord hath said_, etc.] Deuteronom... [ Continue Reading ]
_will go over before thee_ Deuteronomy 9:3, where also there follows (with much else) as here, _he will destroy, thou shalt_ DISPOSSESS or SUCCEED _them_(but in another form of the vb.). This part of the _v_. may be a later intrusion, for the remainder follows naturally in Deuteronomy 31:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Sihon … Og_ Deuteronomy 2:32 ff., Deuteronomy 3:1 ff., Deuteronomy 29:7; _Amorites_, Deuteronomy 3:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
_deliver them up before you_ Deuteronomy 1:8; Deuteronomy 7:2, etc., with both Sg. and Pl. The change to Pl. here is confirmed by Sam. LXX. _all the commandment_, etc.] i.e. that in Deuteronomy 7:2 ff.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Be strong and of a good courage_ Cp. Deuteronomy 3:28: _encourage and strengthen him_(causative forms of the same vbs.). _fear not, nor be affrighted_ The phrase usual with Pl. passages (for the corresponding Sg. see Deuteronomy 1:21 and below Deuteronomy 31:8). Deuteronomy 1:29 takes these vbs. i... [ Continue Reading ]
_in the sight of all Israel_ Deuteronomy 34:12. _Be strong and of a good courage_ As in Deuteronomy 31:6 but Sg.; cp. Deuteronomy 3:28. LXX: ἀνδρίζου καὶ ἴσχυε. _go with_ Rather BRING, as in some Heb. MSS, Sam. Vulg. and Deuteronomy 31:23. _sworn_ Deuteronomy 1:8. _cause them to inherit_ Deuteron... [ Continue Reading ]
See on Deuteronomy 31:6. On the phrase _fear not, neither be dismayed_, characteristic of the Sg. passages, see on Deuteronomy 1:21.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Moses wrote this law_ Besides Deuteronomy 31:24 the only statement to this effect in Deut. _this law_ Heb. _Tôrah_, see on Deuteronomy 1:5. In Deut. the Code (possibly with hortatory additions, but we cannot tell the exact extent of it here intended, see Deuteronomy 27:3) is called Tôrah only in De... [ Continue Reading ]
The Law written and delivered to the Levites, etc. Moses wrote this Law and gave it to the priests and elders, charging them to read it every seventh year at the Feast of Booths to all Israel, women, little ones and _gerim_included, that they and their children might evermore fear God and do its wo... [ Continue Reading ]
_At the end of every seven years … the year of release_ See Deuteronomy 15:1 ff. _set time_ Heb. _mo-ed_, in Deuteronomy 16:6 of a fixed hour of day; here as in Exodus 23:15 (see Dri."s note) of a season fixed for a sacred festival; for another application see Deuteronomy 31:14. _the feast of_ BOOT... [ Continue Reading ]
_appear before_, etc.] Rather SEE THE FACE OF, as in Deuteronomy 16:16; _thy God_, Sam. LXX A and other codd, _your God_LXX B. _in the place_, etc.] See on Deuteronomy 12:5. _thou shalt read this law_ The Sg. address is striking; for according to Deuteronomy 31:9 Moses is addressing the priests and... [ Continue Reading ]
_Assemble the people_ Again Sg. confirmed by Sam. though LXX codd. have Pl. Cp. Deuteronomy 4:10, _assemble me the people_. On _assemble_see Deuteronomy 5:22. It is not necessary to take _Assemble … gates_as a later intrusion (Marti) on the grounds that the command to assemble the people is out of o... [ Continue Reading ]
_their children_ Again the characteristic inclusion of these; see on Deuteronomy 4:9 f., Deuteronomy 6:7; _which have not known_, Deuteronomy 11:2. The text of the forms of address in this _v_. is uncertain: _your God_, some Sam. readings have _your_, others _their_, LXX B has _thy_, but AF etc. _y... [ Continue Reading ]
_And the Lord said unto Moses, Behold_ No parallel passage in Deut. (Deuteronomy 1:42; Deuteronomy 2:9; Deuteronomy 3:2; Deuteronomy 3:26; Deuteronomy 4:10; Deuteronomy 5:28; Deuteronomy 9:13; Deuteronomy 10:1; cp.... [ Continue Reading ]
Again Joshua's Commission, with Introduction to Moses" Song The composition is very curious. In Deuteronomy 31:14_; Deuteronomy 31:23_we have an account of the charge to Joshua, which is in substance not the continuation of the deuteronomic one in Deuteronomy 31:1, but parallel to that, and is couc... [ Continue Reading ]
_the Lord appeared … in a pillar of cloud_ With LXX (except for a few cursive MSS) omit _in the Tent_: as the _v_. goes on to say, the pillar stood OVER AGAINST _the door of the Tent_. Also it is probable that _appeared_is an emendation (by the change of one letter) for the more anthropomorphic _cam... [ Continue Reading ]
Commences another saying of the Lord to Moses not connected with Joshua or with 14 f. except by reference to the approaching death of Moses. _And the Lord said … Behold_ See on 14. _thou_ ART ABOUT TO _sleep with thy fathers_ In J, Genesis 47:30, and frequently in Kings. _go a whoring after the st... [ Continue Reading ]
None of the clauses in this _v_. is characteristic of Deut. _My anger shall be kindled against_it, JE, Numbers 11:10; for _in that day_, as Dillm. points out, Deut. has elsewhere _at that time; I will forsake them_, contrast Deuteronomy 31:6_; Deuteronomy 31:8_, Deuteronomy 4:31; _hide my face from... [ Continue Reading ]
_hide my face_ Some Heb. MSS, Sam., LXX, etc., add _from them_; but the Heb. has the next vbs. in Sg. _evil which_ IT HAS WROUGHT, and IT _turned to other gods_(Sam. _they_and _they_). The Heb. vb. is _panah_, not used exactly so elsewhere in Deut., but cp. Deuteronomy 29:18 (17), Deuteronomy 30:17,... [ Continue Reading ]
_write ye this song for you_ This Pl. can be justified only by reference to Moses and Joshua both, but only Moses is addressed in Deuteronomy 31:10, and in the light of the following singular imperatives _teach thou_… AND (Sam., LXX, Syr.) _put_, and of Deuteronomy 31:22, _Moses_(alone) _wrote_, rea... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR I SHALL BRING IT _into the land which I sware unto_ ITS _fathers_ Deuteronomy 6:10, but also in E. On _flowing with milk and honey_, see Deuteronomy 6:3. _and_ IT SHALL EAT AND BE SATISFIED AND GROW FAT] Cp. Deuteronomy 6:11; Deuteronomy 8:12; Deuteronomy 32:15. Here even the deuteronomic phras... [ Continue Reading ]
_many evils … are come upon_ IT] Cp. Deuteronomy 31:17; _this song shall testify_ TO ITS FACE, the same vb. as in Deuteronomy 19:18; _as a witness, Deuteronomy 31:19_; ITS _seed_; ITS _imagination, yéṣer_, lit. _moulding_. This term and its synonyms are applied in the O.T. to evil imaginations in re... [ Continue Reading ]
See Deuteronomy 31:19.... [ Continue Reading ]
The immediate continuation of 14 f., which we have seen reasons for assigning to E. _And he gave_ The subject is not Moses, as the present context of this _v_. suggests, but must be Jehovah, as in Deuteronomy 31:15; this is quite certain. from the following _I sware unto them_and _I will be with th... [ Continue Reading ]
_had made an end of writing the words of this law_ If _Law_be the original reading, Deuteronomy 31:24 are not the sequel, but a parallel to Deuteronomy 31:9-13, for 9 also implies the completion of the writing of the Law in recording its delivery to _the priests, the sons of Levi_. But, as already s... [ Continue Reading ]
Again the Law-Book (?) and the Song A less vague description of these _vv_. is not possible. The text says that Moses having written the Law in a book charged the Levites to put it beside the Ark as a witness _against thee_(Deuteronomy 31:24-26). For Israel, which has been rebellious in his life he... [ Continue Reading ]
_the Levites which bare_, etc.] See on Deuteronomy 31:9; Deuteronomy 10:8; Deuteronomy 17:18. These cannot be P's Levites, who could not enter the Holy of Holies where the Ark lay. On _the Ark of the Covenant_see note on Deuteronomy 10:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
_this book of the law_ Deuteronomy 29:21 (20), Deuteronomy 30:10. _for a witness_, etc.] Not a deuteronomic phrase; but cp. _testimonies_in Deuteronomy 4:45; _against thee_, here all Israel is addressed, whereas in Deuteronomy 31:25 it is the Levites.... [ Continue Reading ]
_thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck … ye have been rebellious_ Cp. Deuteronomy 1:26; Deuteronomy 1:43; Deuteronomy 9:6 f., Deuteronomy 9:13; Deuteronomy 9:23 f., Deuteronomy 10:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Assemble_ Imperative Pl. See on Deuteronomy 31:12, and Deuteronomy 5:22. _elders of your tribes_, etc.] LXX _heads of your tribes_, adding AND YOUR JUDGES, and some LXX codd. also add _elders_. Cp. Deuteronomy 5:23; Deuteronomy 29:10 (9). _these words_ Though this phrase usually refers to what pr... [ Continue Reading ]
_after my death_ Readers of the Heb. text will compare with the position of this clause in the _v_. the construction in Deuteronomy 13:12 (13). _ye will_ SURELY _corrupt yourselves_ See on Deuteronomy 4:16; Deuteronomy 4:25, and for another form of the same vb. Deuteronomy 9:12; Deuteronomy 32:5. _... [ Continue Reading ]
Editor's Title to the Song _all the assembly of Israel_ See on Deuteronomy 5:22. _the words … finished_ See on Deuteronomy 31:24. This _v_. is no doubt from the hand of an editor; see below.... [ Continue Reading ]