Deuteronomy 1:8

1:8 Look! I have already given the land to you.35 Go, occupy the territory that I,36 the Lord, promised37 to give to your ancestors38 Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants.”39

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35	tn Heb “I have placed before you the land.”
36	tn Heb “the Lord.” Since the Lord is speaking, it is preferable for clarity to supply the first person pronoun in the translation.
37	tn Heb “swore” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT). This refers to God’s promise, made by solemn oath, to give the patriarchs the land.
38	tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 11, 21, 35).
39	tn Heb “their seed after them.”