Deuteronomy 1:3

3 On the first day of the eleventh month of the fortieth year after they had left Egypt, Moses told the people everything the Lord had commanded him to tell them.

Deuteronomy 1:3 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 1:3

And it came to pass in the fortieth year
That is, of the coming of the children of Israel out of Egypt:

in the eleventh month;
the month Shebet, as the Targum of Jonathan, which answers to part of January and part of February:

in the first day of the month, that Moses spoke unto the children of
Israel according to all that the Lord had given him in commandment unto
them;
repeated to them the several commandments, which the Lord had delivered to him at different times.

Deuteronomy 1:3 In-Context

1 In this book are the words that Moses spoke to the people of Israel when they were in the wilderness east of the Jordan River. They were in the Jordan Valley near Suph, between the town of Paran on one side and the towns of Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab on the other

2 (It takes eleven days to travel from Mount Sinai to Kadesh Barnea by way of the hill country of Edom.)

3 On the first day of the eleventh month of the fortieth year after they had left Egypt, Moses told the people everything the Lord had commanded him to tell them.

4 This was after the Lord had defeated King Sihon of the Amorites, who ruled in the town of Heshbon, and King Og of Bashan, who ruled in the towns of Ashtaroth and Edrei.

5 It was while the people were east of the Jordan in the territory of Moab that Moses began to explain God's laws and teachings. He said,