The Setting and Introduction of the Covenant

⁴⁴ This is the law that Moses set before the Israelites.^{[a] 45} These are the stipulations, statutes, and ordinances that Moses spoke to the Israelites after he had brought them out of Egypt, ⁴⁶ in the Transjordan, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, in the land of King Sihon of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon. (It is he whom Moses and the Israelites attacked after they came out of Egypt. ⁴⁷ They possessed his land and that of King Og of Bashan—both of whom were Amorite kings in the Transjordan, to the east. ⁴⁸ Their territory extended^[b] from Aroer at the edge of the Arnon valley as far as Mount Siyon^[c]—that is, Hermon— ⁴⁹ including all the rift valley of the Transjordan in the east to the sea of the rift valley,^[d] beneath the slopes^[e] of Pisgah.)