1 [1] These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah, opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.

2 It is a journey of eleven days from Horeb [2] to Kadesh-barnea by way of the highlands of Seir.

3 In the fortieth year, [3] on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses spoke to the Israelites according to all that the Lord had commanded him to speak to them,