1. These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel on this side the Jordan, in the wilderness, in the plain, opposite to Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
2. There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea.
3. And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first of the month, that Moses spoke to the children of Israel, according to all that Jehovah had given him in command to them;
4. after he had smitten Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei.
5. On this side the Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to unfold this law, saying,
6. Jehovah our God spoke unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have stayed long enough in this mountain.
7. Turn and take your journey, and go to the hill-country of the Amorites, and unto all the neighbouring places in the plain, in the mountain, and in the lowland, and in the south, and by the seaside, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.
8. Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which Jehovah swore unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.
9. And I spoke unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone.
10. Jehovah your God hath multiplied you, and behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.