translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: DEU

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “Reed Sea.” See note on the term “Red Sea” in Deut 1:40 .


text: Heb “command” (so KJV, NASB); NRSV “charge the people as follows.”


text: Heb “brothers”; NAB “your kinsmen.”


text: Heb includes “with silver.”


text: The Hebrew text does not have the first person pronoun; it has been supplied for purposes of English style (the Lord is speaking here).


text: Heb “all the work of your hands.”


text: Heb “he has.” This has been converted to first person in the translation in keeping with English style.


text: Heb “known” (so ASV, NASB); NAB “been concerned about.”


text: Heb “the Lord your God has.” This has been replaced in the translation by the first person pronoun (“I”) in keeping with English style.


text: Or “brothers”; NRSV “our kin.”


text: Heb “the way of the Arabah” (so ASV); NASB, NIV “the Arabah road.”


text: Most modern English versions, beginning with the ASV (1901), regard vv. 10-12 as parenthetical to the narrative.


text: Heb “we crossed the Wadi Zered.” This has been translated as “we did so” for stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy.


text: Heb “from the middle of.” Although many recent English versions leave this expression untranslated, the point seems to be that these soldiers did not die in battle but “within the camp.”


text: Heb “and it was when they were eliminated, all the men of war, to die from the midst of the people.”


text: Heb “them”; the referent (the Rephaites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: Heb “them”; the referent (the Ammonites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: Heb “Caphtor”; the modern name of the island of Crete is used in the translation for clarity (cf. NCV, TEV, NLT).


text: Heb “under heaven” (so NIV, NRSV).


text: Heb “from before you.”


text: Heb “in the way in the way” ( בַּדֶּרֶךְ בַּדֶּרֶךְ , baderekh baderekh ). The repetition lays great stress on the idea of resolute determination to stick to the path. IBHS 116 §7.2.3c.


text: Heb “silver.”


text: Heb “and water for silver give to me so that I may drink.”


label: NET textual note

text: The translation follows the LXX in reading the first person pronoun. The MT, followed by many English versions, has a second person masculine singular pronoun, “your.”


text: Heb “hardened his spirit” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV); NIV “made his spirit stubborn.”


text: Heb “made his heart obstinate” (so KJV, NASB); NRSV “made his heart defiant.”


text: Heb “into your hand.”


text: Heb “people.”


text: The translation follows the Qere or marginal reading; the Kethib (consonantal text) has the singular, “his son.”


text: Heb “all his people.”


text: Heb “every city of men.” This apparently identifies the cities as inhabited.


text: Heb “under the ban” ( נַחֲרֵם , nakharem ). The verb employed is חָרַם ( kharam , usually in the Hiphil) and the associated noun is חֵרֶם ( kherem ). See J. Naudé, NIDOTTE , 2:276-77, and, for a more thorough discussion, Susan Niditch, War in the Hebrew Bible , 28-77. sn Divine judgment refers to God’s designation of certain persons, places, and things as objects of his special wrath and judgment because, in his omniscience, he knows them to be impure and hopelessly unrepentant.


text: Heb “the city in the wadi.” This enigmatic reference may refer to Ar or, more likely, to Aroer itself. Epexegetically the text might read, “From Aroer…, that is, the city in the wadi.” See D. L. Christensen, –11 (WBC), 49.