1. This is the message Moses gave to all the people of Israel in the desert east of the Jordan River. They were in the desert area near Suph, between Paran and the towns of Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
2. (The trip from Mount Sinai to Kadesh Barnea on the Mount Seir road takes eleven days.)
3. Forty years after the Israelites had left Egypt, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses told the people of Israel everything the Lord had commanded him to tell them.
4. This was after the Lord had defeated Sihon and Og. Sihon was king of the Amorite people and lived in Heshbon. Og was king of Bashan and lived in Ashteroth and Edrei.
5. Now the Israelites were east of the Jordan River in the land of Moab, and there Moses began to explain what God had commanded. He said: