translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: DEU

label: NET study note

text: The place where he chooses to locate his name . This is a circumlocution for the central sanctuary, first the tabernacle and later the Jerusalem temple. See Deut 12:1-14 and especially the note on the word “you” in v. 14 .


text: A wandering Aramean . This is a reference to Jacob whose mother Rebekah was an Aramean ( Gen 24:10; 25:20, 26 ) and who himself lived in Aram for at least twenty years ( Gen 31:41-42 ).


text: These practices suggest overtones of pagan ritual, all of which the confessor denies having undertaken. In Canaan they were connected with fertility practices associated with harvest time. See E. H. Merrill, Deuteronomy (NAC), 335-36.