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The Setting of the Covenant

These are the words that Moses spoke to the assembly of[a] Israel east[b] of the Jordan River,[c] in the Arabah desert, opposite Suph between Paran, Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Di-zahab. It takes eleven days to travel[d] from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea via Mount Seir.[e] On the first day of the eleventh month,[f] in the fortieth year, Moses spoke to the Israelis about everything that the Lord had commanded him concerning them.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 1:1 Lit. to all
  2. Deuteronomy 1:1 Lit. Israel on the other side; and so throughout the book
  3. Deuteronomy 1:1 The Heb. lacks River; and so throughout the book
  4. Deuteronomy 1:2 The Heb. lacks to travel
  5. Deuteronomy 1:2 This mountain, the modern Jebel esh-sherá, is located in the mountain range that extends south of the Dead Sea toward the Gulf of Aqaba, and is bordered by the Arabah Valley to the west.
  6. Deuteronomy 1:3 I.e. the month of Shebat in the Hebrew calendar

The Command to Leave Horeb

These are the words Moses spoke to all Israel in the wilderness east of the Jordan(A)—that is, in the Arabah(B)—opposite Suph, between Paran(C) and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth and Dizahab. (It takes eleven days to go from Horeb(D) to Kadesh Barnea(E) by the Mount Seir(F) road.)(G)

In the fortieth year,(H) on the first day of the eleventh month,(I) Moses proclaimed(J) to the Israelites all that the Lord had commanded him concerning them.

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