Deuteronomy 1:20

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

I said to you, You are come to the hill-country of the Amorites, which Yahweh our God gives to us.

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הָאֱמֹרִ֔י

ʼĔmôrîy

H567

“the · Amorite”

Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute

Appears 87× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 10:16

Full BDB Definition

Origin: probably a patronymic from an unused name derived from H559 in the sense of publicity, i.e. prominence

TWOT: 119

Amorite = "a sayer" - one of the peoples of east Canaan and beyond the Jordan, dispossessed by the Israelite incursion from Egypt

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

11: words
10: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Grammatical profile

3 verbs
4 nouns
3 prepositions
1 particle

Verb forms

וָאֹמַ֖ר Qal · Sequential Imperfect
בָּאתֶם֙ Qal · Perfect
נֹתֵ֥ן Qal · Participle Active

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 20 words from the Hebrew and 24 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 11 Hebrew tokens and 18 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Deuteronomy 1:20 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Deuteronomy 1:7–8 turn you, and take your journey, and go to the hill-country of the Amorites, and to all [the places] near thereunto, in the Arabah, in the hill-country, and in the lowland, and in the South, and by the sea-shore, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Deuteronomy 1:20 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וָאֹמַ֖ר אֲלֵכֶ֑ם בָּאתֶם֙ עַד הַ֣ר הָאֱמֹרִ֔י אֲשֶׁר יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵ֖ינוּ נֹתֵ֥ן לָֽנוּ

I said to you, You are come to the hill-country of the Amorites, which Yahweh our God gives to us.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Deuteronomy 1:20 Septuagint · lemma form

καί εἶπον πρός σύ ἔρχομαι ἕως ὁ ὄρος ὁ ἀμορραῖος ὅς ὁ κύριος ὁ θεός ἐγώ δίδωμι σύ

And I said to you, You⌃ have come as far as the mountain of the Amorite, which the Lord our God gives to you:

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

וַאֲמָרִית לְכוֹן אֲתֵיתוּן עַד טוּרָא דֶאֱמוֹרָאָה דַיְיָ אֱלָהָנָא יָהֵיב לָנָא

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Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

וַאֲמָרִית לְכוֹן אֲתֵיתוּן עַד טַוְורָא דֶאֱמוֹרָאָה דַיְיָ אֱלָהָנָא יָהֵיב לָנָא

And I said to you, Ye are come to the mountain of the Amoraah, which the Lord our God will give to us.

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Deuteronomy 1:20 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

20. Ye are come unto the hill-country of the Amorites] See on Deu_1:7. If Ḳadesh be ‘Ain Ḳudeis, the Negeb still lay between Israel and the Mt of the Amorite as J, Num_13:17 b, 22, correctly notices. The omission here is due to the summary character of the review, and has no bearing on the position of Ḳadesh.

giveth] Heb. giving with the force of is about to give: followed by ground or land, it forms a phrase peculiar to D. See on Deu_1:8.

20–25. The Mission of the Spies

Arrived at the Mt of the Amorite, promised them by God, and exhorted to invade it (Deu_1:20 f.), the people proposed that spies be sent forward to explore (Deu_1:22). Moses consented and took twelve men (Deu_1:23), who visited the vale of ’Eshkôl and brought back of its fruit, saying the land was good (Deu_1:24 f.).—The parallel passage is Numbers 13, for the analysis of which into JE and P see Chapman, Introd. to the Pent. (86 ff.), in this series, and cp. Oxf. Hex. and G. B. Gray in the Int. Crit. Com. To JE are generally assigned Deu_1:17 bc – Deu_1:21 a, Deu_1:22-24, Deu_1:26-29 : the beginning of this account with the start of the spies from Ḳadesh is probably broken off; it is implied in Deu_1:26. As it stands all that JE tells us is that the spies started after Israel had reached the wilderness of Paran, Num_12:16, while Ḳadesh was in the wilderness of Sin to the N. of that of Paran. They were to go up by the Negeb, still intervening between them and the Mt of the Amorite, to see the land, its dwellers, their manner of life, and the fruits. Thus they came to Ḥebron where were sons of ‘Anaḳ and brought back from the vale of ’Eshḳol some fruit to Ḳadesh, reporting the land to be good, but the people strong and their cities fenced and great. It is clear that the deuteronomic review is a summary of this account. P’s narrative, Num_13:1-17 a, Num_13:21 b, Num_13:25-26 a differs from JE and D both in its language and in several details of facts for which see below. For full proof of the dependence of D on JE and D’s ignorance of P, see Chapman, I. P. 90–92, 94 f.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

So that the fault was in themselves, that they did not sooner possess the inheritance promised.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

John Gill's Exposition

And I said unto you, you are come unto the mountain of the Amorites,.... Which was inhabited by them, and was one of the seven nations the Israelites were to destroy, and possess their land, and which lay on the southern part of the land of Canaan:

which the Lord our God doth give unto us; not the mountain only, but the whole country of that people, and even all the land of Canaan.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

General Information:

Moses continues reminding the people of Israel what the previous generation of Israelites did.

Look ... your God ... before you; go up, take possession ... your fathers ... to you; do not be afraid, neither be discouraged

Moses is speaking to the Israelites as if he were speaking to one man, so these forms should be singular, not plural. (See: Pronouns)

has set the land before you

"is now giving this land to you." See how this is translated in Deuteronomy 1:8.

translationWords

Amorite

Yahweh

God

possess

ancestor

fear

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

Lesson kit

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Deuteronomy, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 11 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼĔmôrîy (“Amorite”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “Amorite” (ʼĔmôrîy) shape what this verse is saying?
Deuteronomy 1:7–8 shares this passage’s theme. How do the two illuminate each other?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
The verb «וָאֹמַ֖ר» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges and Geneva Bible (1599) read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 11 Hebrew ↔ 18 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 9 words in this verse.
10 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 11 words in this verse.