Translations
His purpose: to ensure that each new generation of Israel would know the realities of warfare — those who had never faced it before.
only so that the generations of the sons of Yisra'el might know war — those who had not previously known it.
Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;
if only to teach warfare to the subsequent generations of Israel, especially to those who had not known it formerly:

