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Deuteronomy 1:37-39
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Deuteronomy 1:37-39
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37 As for me, the Lord was also angry with me on your account. He said, “You also will not be able to go there. 38 However, Joshua son of Nun, your assistant,[a] will go. Encourage him, because he will enable Israel to inherit the land.[b] 39 Also, your infants, who you thought would die on the way,[c] and your children, who as yet do not know good from bad,[d] will go there; I will give them the land and they will possess it.
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- Deuteronomy 1:38 tn Heb “the one who stands before you”; NAB “your aide”; TEV “your helper.”
- Deuteronomy 1:38 tn Heb “it”; the referent (the land) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
- Deuteronomy 1:39 tn Heb “would be a prey.”
- Deuteronomy 1:39 sn Do not know good from bad. This is a figure of speech called a merism (suggesting a whole by referring to its extreme opposites). Other examples are the tree of “the knowledge of good and evil” (Gen 2:9), the boy who knows enough “to reject the wrong and choose the right” (Isa 7:16; 8:4), and those who “cannot tell their right hand from their left” (Jonah 4:11). A young child is characterized by lack of knowledge.
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