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In the area east of the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses took on the task of explaining clearly this law[a] as follows. This is what he said:

The Lord our God spoke to us at Horeb. He said, “You have stayed at this mountain long enough. Turn in the other direction, start traveling, and go to the hill country of the Amorites and to all the people living in the Arabah,[b] in the hill country,[c] in the Shephelah,[d] and in the Negev,[e] and in the coastland by the sea (the land of the Canaanites) and the Lebanon range, up to the Great River (the River Euphrates).

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 1:5 The Hebrew word torah, traditionally translated law, includes other types of instruction besides laws.
  2. Deuteronomy 1:7 The Arabah is the Great Rift of the Jordan Valley.
  3. Deuteronomy 1:7 The Hebrew is literally the mountain. The translation retains the traditional rendering hill country for the highland regions of Israel.
  4. Deuteronomy 1:7 Shephelah, which means “pressed down region,” is the name for the foothills west of the hill country of Judah.
  5. Deuteronomy 1:7 The Negev is the arid region in the southern part of Judah.