translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: DEU

label: NET translator note

text: Or “western” (so NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV); Heb “latter,” a reference to the Mediterranean Sea (cf. NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT).


text: Heb “seed” (so KJV, ASV).


text: The Hebrew text includes “with your eyes,” but this is redundant in English and is left untranslated.


label: NET textual note

text: Smr and some LXX mss read “they buried him,” that is, the Israelites. The MT reads “he buried him,” meaning in the context that “the Lord buried him.” This understanding, combined with the statement at the end of the verse that Moses’ burial place is unknown, gave rise to traditions during the intertestamental period that are reflected in the NT in Jude 9 and in OT pseudepigraphic works like the Assumption of Moses .


text: Or “dimmed.” The term could refer to dull appearance or to dimness caused by some loss of visual acuity.


text: Heb “sap.” That is, he was still in possession of his faculties or liveliness.


text: Heb “to,” “with respect to.” In the Hebrew text vv. 10-12 are one long sentence. For stylistic reasons the translation divides this into two, using the verb “he did” at the beginning of v. 11 and “he displayed” at the beginning of v. 12 .


text: Heb “strong hand.”


text: The Hebrew text of v. 12 reads literally, “with respect to all the strong hand and with respect to all the awesome greatness which Moses did before the eyes of all Israel.”