Deuteronomy 1:3-5

Expanded Bible

³ ·Forty years after the Israelites had left Egypt [^LIn the fortieth year], on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses told the ·people [^Lsons; ^Tchildren] of Israel everything the Lord had commanded him to tell them. ⁴ This was after the Lord had ·defeated [^Lstruck] 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 [Num. 21:21–35].

⁵ Now ·the Israelites [^Lthey] were ·east of [^Lbeyond] the Jordan River in the land of Moab, and there Moses began to ·explain [make clear] ·what God had commanded [^Lthis law/instruction]. He said: