With the beginning of a new section, Moses should be reintroduced as the speaker.

Amalek was a region to the south of the land of Israel, south and west of the Dead Sea. Here Amalek is not a man’s name but the name of a people; it is better to say “the Amalekites” or “the people of the Amalek region” (see 7.1).

As you came out of Egypt: see in 24.9 the remarks made about this use of the second person plural, you.

Quoted with permission from Bratcher, Robert G. and Hatton, Howard A. A Handbook on Deuteronomy. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 2000. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .