Deuteronomy 4:44

And this is the law So too Sam.; LXX, Vg. and Pesh. omit and. A slight symptom of the fact that this title once stood at the very beginning of an edition of D, the conjunction having been added when other matter was prefixed to it. On law, Tôrah, see Deuteronomy 1:5; Deuteronomy 31:1, etc.

set before Heb. sam liphneinstead of the synonymous nathan liphneusual in D.

children of Israel Heb. bne Yisra'el. So E, Deuteronomy 10:6; JE (?), Deuteronomy 31:19; Deuteronomy 31:22 f.; P, Deuteronomy 1:3; Deuteronomy 32:51; Deuteronomy 34:8 f. and in titles here, Deuteronomy 4:45-46; Deuteronomy 29:1 (Deut 28:69). In D the usual term is all Israel. (Bne Yisra'elin Deuteronomy 3:18; Deuteronomy 23:18 is no exception, for there and probably also in Deuteronomy 24:7 it means only sons, i.e. males, of Israel.)