1. This has already been noted by W. L. Moran, "The End of the Unholy War and the Anti-Exodus," Bib 44 (1963):333; reprinted in A Song of Power and the Power of Song, ed. by D. L. Christensen (Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1993), 148.
2. Moses would reflect what these forty years mean for GB in Chap.8:2-5.