Deuteronomy

No published English Bible, commentary, or study note was open while Deuteronomy was drafted. The wording source was the ancient-language witnesses named in the notes. A lexicon or grammar may be used for a source word. Greek, Syriac, and Latin, when they appear, witness the source wording. They are not models for the English.

The continuous copy is the Leningrad Codex, read in the Open Scriptures diplomatic text of the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Dead Sea copies of Deuteronomy are fragmentary. This draft does not replace Leningrad with a reading that was not read off a fragment. No earlier wording is guessed into the English. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default. Written consonants are printed. Where the Masoretic reading differs, the note says so.

Suph is the place written here. It is not the Sea of Reeds. That name, yam suf, is in verse 40. Di-zahab is the place name as written.

Yahweh prints the divine name. The consonants in the Hebrew are YHWH. The vowels in “Yahweh” are a later convention, not a record of how the oldest copies said the name. See the glossary.

Torah is instruction, as in the ritual books. Ho’il be’er is he undertook to make it plain.

YHWH Elohim is printed Yahweh God. Yahweh is the name. God is Elohim. A suffix makes it “our God” or “your God.” See the glossary.

Chafar is to search out, to dig into a matter. The scouting word is in verse 24, and it is a different verb.

The oath is an “if”: if a man of these men sees the land. The sense of that oath is that he will not see it. The “if” is not printed as an open condition.

Yam suf is the Sea of Reeds.

The comparison has no second place written. The line is printed as it stands.