5. East of the Jordan in the territory of Moab, Moses began to expound this law, saying:
6. The Lord our God said to us at Horeb, “You have stayed long enough at this mountain.
7. Break camp and advance into the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the mountains, in the western foothills, in the Negev and along the coast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the Euphrates.
8. See, I have given you this land. Go in and take possession of the land the Lord swore he would give to your fathers—to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—and to their descendants after them.”
9. At that time I said to you, “You are too heavy a burden for me to carry alone.
10. The Lord your God has increased your numbers so that today you are as numerous as the stars in the sky.