Deuteronomy 1:5

5 The Israelites were east of the Jordan River in Moab when Moses began to review God's teachings. This is what he said:

Deuteronomy 1:5 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 1:5

On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab
On that side of Jordan in which the land of Moab was, and which with respect to the land of Canaan was beyond Jordan; this the Vulgate Latin version joins to the preceding verse:

began Moses to declare this law:
to explain it, make it clear and manifest; namely, the whole system and body of laws, which had been before given him, which he "willed" ^F11, as some render the word, or willingly took upon him to repeat and explain unto them, which their fathers had heard, and had been delivered unto them; but before he entered upon this, he gave them a short history of events which had befallen them, from the time of their departure from Horeb unto the present time, which is contained in this and the two next chapters:

saying;
as follows.

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FOOTNOTES:

F11 (lyawh) "voluit", Montanus; "placuit", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; "statuit", Tigurine version.

Deuteronomy 1:5 In-Context

3 On the first day of the eleventh month in the fortieth year [after they had left Egypt], Moses told the Israelites everything the LORD had commanded him to tell them.

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

5 The Israelites were east of the Jordan River in Moab when Moses began to review God's teachings. This is what he said:

6 At Mount Horeb the LORD our God said to us, "You have stayed at this mountain long enough.

7 Break camp, and get ready! Go to the mountain region of the Amorites, and go to everyone living on the plains, in the mountains, in the foothills, in the Negev, on the whole Mediterranean coast (the land of the Canaanites), and into Lebanon as far as the Euphrates River.