Deuteronomy 1:1-5 - Preamble
1 These [are] the words that Moses spoke to all [of] Israel {on the other side of} the Jordan in the desert, in the desert plateau opposite Suph, between Paran and between Tophel and Laban and Hazeroth and Dizahab. 2 It is [a journey of] {eleven days} from Herob {by the way of Mount Seir} up to Kadesh Barnea. 3 {And it was} in the fortieth year, on the eleventh month, on [the] first [day] of the month, Moses spoke to the {Israelites} according to all that Yahweh had instructed him [to speak] to them. 4 [This happened] {after defeating} Sihon king of the Amorites, who [was] reigning in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who [was] reigning in Ashtaroth in Edrei. 5 On the other side of the Jordan in the land of Moab Moses began to explain this law, {saying}: