1. These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah over against Suf, between Paran, Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
2. It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea.
3. In the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, Moses spoke to the children of Israel, according to all that Yahweh had given him in commandment to them;
4. after he had struck Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth, at Edrei.
5. Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses began to declare this law, saying,
6. “Yahweh our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying, ‘You have lived long enough at this mountain.
7. Turn, and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites, and to all the places near there, in the Arabah, in the hill country, and in the lowland, and in the South, and by the seashore, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.
8. Behold, I have set the land before you. Go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their offspring after them.’”
9. I spoke to you at that time, saying, “I am not able to bear you myself alone.
10. Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are today as the stars of the sky for multitude.
11. Yahweh, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are, and bless you, as he has promised you!
12. How can I myself alone bear your problems, your burdens, and your strife?
13. Take wise men of understanding and well known according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.”