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Moses spoke to the Israelites on the first day of the 11th month, in the 40th year of their journey. He told the Israelites the message that the Lord had commanded him to speak.[a]

This happened after Moses and the Israelites had won against Sihon, king of the Amorites.[b] Sihon ruled in Heshbon. They had also won against Og, the king of Bashan, who ruled in Ashtaroth. The Israelites fought against him at Edrei. Moses began to speak the Lord's message on the east side of the Jordan River, in Moab's country. This is what he said:

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Footnotes

  1. 1:3 When we write Lord like this, it is a special name for God. Sometimes people write it as ‘Yahweh’, or as ‘Jehovah’. It is his own name that he told Moses. See Exodus 3:14. It means ‘I am who I am’. This shows that God has always been there and he always will be there.
  2. 1:4 The Amorites were a group of people who lived in Canaan before the Israelites lived there. They lived on both sides of the Jordan River. They were enemies of the Israelites.