Deuteronomy 2:4

Ye are to pass The Heb. participle expressing, as often, the immediate future.

through the border Rather through the territory. The preposition is the same as that used in Israel's request in JE, Numbers 21:17, let us pass through thy landand in Edom's reply, thou shall not pass through me. Had the meaning been onor along the border, another preposition would have been used. The territory of Edom appears to have reached the sea (1 Kings 9:26), and Israel must needs cross it on the way to Moab.

your brethren, the sons of Esau Deuteronomy 23:7; Amos 1:11; Obadiah 1:10; Obadiah 1:12; Malachi 1:2.

which dwell in Seir Se-îris here equivalent to Mt Se-îr as the next verse shows; yet the range, running S., droops and gives way before the W. el "Ithm is reached, up which we have supposed that Israel marched.

and they shall be afraid of you Heb. so that they shall be afraid of you. This is the temper imputed to Edom by JE when Israel asked leave to cross their land from Ḳadesh, Numbers 10:18-20.

take ye good hed unto yourselves Another favourite expression of the deuteronomic writers.