Ulangan 6:20

Exhortation to Remember the Past

6:20 When your children ¹  ask you later on, “What are the stipulations, statutes, and ordinances that the Lord our God commanded you?”

Ulangan 27:4

27:4 So when you cross the Jordan you must erect on Mount Ebal ²  these stones about which I am commanding you today, and you must cover them with plaster.

Ulangan 30:11

Exhortation to Covenant Obedience

30:11 “This commandment I am giving ³  you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it too remote.

[6:20]  ¹ tn Heb “your son.”

[27:4]  ² tc Smr reads “Mount Gerizim” for the MT reading “Mount Ebal” to justify the location of the Samaritan temple there in the postexilic period. This reading is patently self-serving and does not reflect the original. In the NT when the Samaritan woman of Sychar referred to “this mountain” as the place of worship for her community she obviously had Gerizim in mind (cf. John 4:20).

[30:11]  ³ tn Heb “commanding”; NAB “which I enjoin on you.”