² Moses summoned all the Israelites and said to them:

Your eyes have seen all that the Lord did in Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials and to all his land.^{(A) 3} With your own eyes you saw those great trials, those signs and great wonders.^{(B) 4} But to this day the Lord has not given you a mind that understands or eyes that see or ears that hear.^{(C) 5} Yet the Lord says, “During the forty years that I led^(D) you through the wilderness, your clothes did not wear out, nor did the sandals on your feet.^{(E) 6} You ate no bread and drank no wine or other fermented drink.^(F) I did this so that you might know that I am the Lord your God.”^(G)

⁷ When you reached this place, Sihon^(H) king of Heshbon^(I) and Og king of Bashan came out to fight against us, but we defeated them.^{(J) 8} We took their land and gave it as an inheritance^(K) to the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh.^(L)