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Historical Prologue

“Yahweh our God spoke to us at Horeb, saying,[a] ‘You have stayed long enough[b] at this mountain. Turn now and move on,[c] and go into the hill of the Amorites[d] and to all of the neighboring regions[e] in the Jordan Valley[f] in the hill country and in the Negev and in the coastal area along the sea, into the land of the Canaanites[g] and into the Lebanon, as far as the great river Euphrates. Look, I have set the land before you;[h] go and take possession of the land that Yahweh swore to your ancestors,[i] to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give it to them and to their offspring after them.’

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 1:6 Literally “to say”
  2. Deuteronomy 1:6 Literally “much time
  3. Deuteronomy 1:7 Literally “journey on with respect to yourselves” or “move yourselves out”
  4. Deuteronomy 1:7 Hebrew “Amorite”
  5. Deuteronomy 1:7 Or “peoples”
  6. Deuteronomy 1:7 Literally “Arabah,” arid stretches of land.
  7. Deuteronomy 1:7 Hebrew “Canaanite”
  8. Deuteronomy 1:8 Literally “before your face”
  9. Deuteronomy 1:8 Or “fathers”