1. These are the words which Mosheh spoke to all Yisra’ĕl beyond the Yardĕn in the wilderness, in the desert plain opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, and Laḇan, and Ḥatsĕroth, and Di Zahaḇ,
2. eleven days’ journey from Ḥorĕḇ by way of Mount Sĕ‛ir to Qaḏĕsh Barnĕa.
3. And it came to be in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Mosheh spoke to the children of Yisra’ĕl according to all that יהוה had commanded him concerning them,
4. after he had smitten Siḥon sovereign of the Amorites, who dwelt in Ḥeshbon, and Og̅ sovereign of Bashan, who dwelt at Ashtaroth in Eḏre‛i.
5. Beyond the Yardĕn, in the land of Mo’aḇ, Mosheh undertook to declair this Torah, saying,
6. “יהוה our Elohim spoke to us in Ḥorĕḇ, saying, ‘You have dwelt long enough at this mountain.
7. ‘Turn and set out on your way, and go into the mountains of the Amorites, and to all the neighbouring places in the desert plain, in the mountains and in the low country, and in the Negeḇ and on the seacoast, to the land of the Kena‛anites and to Leḇanon, as far as the great river, the River Euphrates.
8. ‘See, I have set the land before you. Go in and possess the land which יהוה swore to your fathers, to Aḇraham, to Yitsḥaq, and to Ya‛aqoḇ, to give to them and their seed after them.’
9. “And I spoke to you at that time, saying, ‘I am unable to bear you by myself.
10. ‘יהוה your Elohim has increased you, and see, you are today as numerous as the stars of the heavens.
11. ‘יהוה Elohim of your fathers is going to add to you a thousand times more than you are, and bless you as He has spoken to you!
12. ‘How do I bear your pressure and your burden and your strife, by myself?
13. ‘Choose men, wise and understanding, and known to your tribes, and let me appoint them as your heads.’
14. “And you answered me and said, ‘The word which you have spoken to us to do is good.’
15. “And I took the heads of your tribes, wise men and known, and made them heads over you, leaders of thousands, and leaders of hundreds, and leaders of fifties, and leaders of tens, and officers for your tribes.
16. “And I commanded your judges at that time, saying, ‘When hearing between your brothers, judge righteously between a man and his brother or the stranger who is with him.