Deuteronomy 1:3

tn Heb “in” or “on.” Here there is a contrast between the ordinary time of eleven days (v. 2) and the actual time of forty years, so “not until” brings out that vast disparity.

sn The eleventh month is Shebat in the Hebrew calendar, January/February in the modern (Gregorian) calendar.

sn The fortieth year would be 1406 b.c. according to the “early” date of the exodus. See E. H. Merrill, Kingdom of Priests, 66–75.

tn Heb “according to all which.”