Deuteronomy 32:49

Abarim Lit. the men or regions beyondor overthere. Only in P, Jeremiah 22:20 R.V., and Ezekiel 39:11 (where read Abarîm). The name is proof that the people who used it were settled W. of Jordan and looked across the valley of that river and the Dead Sea, to the E. range beyond. See the present writer's -Abarîm" in E. B., HGHL53, 548, 553, and Mod. Criticism, etc., 18 f.

unto mount Nebo … Jericho Not in Numbers 27:12-14, unsuitable in the mouth of the Deity, and obviously a geographical note like those in chs. 2 f. Nebo is P's name for E's and D's Pisgah. See on Deuteronomy 3:17; Deuteronomy 34:1.

I The shorter form of the Heb. pronoun as always in P, while in Deut. the longer is used, for exceptions see on Deuteronomy 12:30.

children of Israel So throughout the passage; not as in D all Israel.

for a possession Not the deuter. yerushahor naḥalah(inheritance), Deuteronomy 4:21, etc., but "ahuzzahas elsewhere in P, e.g. Leviticus 14:34. The term is exactly equal to the Fr. law-term -saisine," the Eng. -seisin" or -seizin," the act of taking corporal possession or the legal equivalent of this.