1. See, e.g., Jeffrey H. Tigay, The JPS Torah Commentary: Deuteronomy (Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society,1996) 66.
2. Since this commandment is repeated verbatim in Deut 5:8-10, we consider this latter passage examined.
3. Though most translations speak of "the third and fourth generation" and "a thousand generation," the word 'generation' is not found in the Hebrew text but is implied from it.
4. Taking the average of 25 years for the span of a generation, a thousand generations is 25,000 years.
5. B. K. Waltke, with Charles Yu, An Old Testament Theology (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2006) 417-8. Emphasis added.
6. J. G. McConville, Deuteronomy (Apollos Old Testament Commentary, 5; Leicester: Apollos, 2002) 127.
7. James Denney, The Death of Christ, ed. by R. V. G. Tasker (London: Tyndale Press, 1951) 162.