Deuteronomy 1:5
New International Version
East of the Jordan in the territory of Moab, Moses began to expound this law, saying:

New Living Translation
While the Israelites were in the land of Moab east of the Jordan River, Moses carefully explained the LORD’s instructions as follows.

English Standard Version
Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses undertook to explain this law, saying,

Berean Standard Bible
On the east side of the Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses began to explain this law, saying:

King James Bible
On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying,

New King James Version
On this side of the Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses began to explain this law, saying,

New American Standard Bible
Across the Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses began to explain this Law, saying,

NASB 1995
Across the Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses undertook to expound this law, saying,

NASB 1977
Across the Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses undertook to expound this law, saying,

Legacy Standard Bible
Across the Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses undertook to expound this law, saying,

Amplified Bible
Beyond (east of) the Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses began to explain this law, saying,

Christian Standard Bible
Across the Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses began to explain this law, saying:

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Across the Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses began to explain this law, saying:”

American Standard Version
Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Moshe camped at the crossing of Jordan in the land of Moab; he explained this Law and said:

Brenton Septuagint Translation
beyond Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses began to declare this law, saying,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Beyond the Jordan in the land of Moab. And Moses began to expound the law, and to say:

English Revised Version
beyond Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying,

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

Good News Translation
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,

International Standard Version
East of the Jordan River, in the land of Moab, Moses began to expound this Law:

JPS Tanakh 1917
beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, took Moses upon him to expound this law, saying:

Literal Standard Version
Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses has begun to explain this law, saying,

Majority Standard Bible
On the east side of the Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses began to explain this law, saying:

New American Bible
Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses undertook to explain this law:

NET Bible
So it was in the Transjordan, in Moab, that Moses began to deliver these words:

New Revised Standard Version
Beyond the Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses undertook to expound this law as follows:

New Heart English Bible
Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying,

Webster's Bible Translation
On the east side of Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying,

World English Bible
Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses began to declare this law, saying,

Young's Literal Translation
beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, hath Moses begun to explain this law, saying:

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Context
The Command to Leave Horeb
4This was after he had defeated Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and then at Edrei had defeated Og king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth. 5On the east side of the Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses began to explain this law, saying: 6The LORD our God said to us at Horeb: “You have stayed at this mountain long enough.…

Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:4
This was after he had defeated Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and then at Edrei had defeated Og king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth.

Deuteronomy 1:6
The LORD our God said to us at Horeb: "You have stayed at this mountain long enough.


Treasury of Scripture

On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying,

to declare

Deuteronomy 4:8
And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?

Deuteronomy 17:18,19
And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites: …

Deuteronomy 31:9
And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and unto all the elders of Israel.

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Deuteronomy 1
1. Moses' speech in the end of the fortieth year
6. briefly rehearsing the history of God's sending them from Horeb
14. of giving them officers
19. of sending the spies to search the land
34. of his anger for their incredulity
41. and disobedience














(5) On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab.--This would be on the other side of Jordan from the stand-point of the writer, or of the readers for whom the book was intended, which is Palestine.

Began Moses.--"Began," i.e., "determined" or "assayed."

To declare.--The emphatic reiteration of what had been already received from God and delivered to Israel may be intended. But the Hebrew word here employed occurs in two other places only, and in both is connected with writing. (See Deuteronomy 17:8, "thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly" (baer heteb, in writing and in making good). Again, in Habakkuk 2:2, "write the vision, and make it plain upon tables." The etymological affinities of the word also suggest the idea of writing. It would seem, then, that at this period Moses began to throw the discourses and laws that he had delivered into a permanent form, arranging and writing them with the same motive which influenced the Apostle Peter (2Peter 1:15), "Moreover, I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance."

In this discourse the history of Israel, from the time of their departure from Sinai, is briefly recapitulated (Deuteronomy 3:29), and with a short practical exhortation. This portion of history comprises three periods of the exodus: (1) The march from Sinai to Kadesh-barnea, with the sending of the twelve spies and its results, related more at length in Numbers 10:11--end of Deuteronomy 14. The characteristic feature of this period is failure on the part of both leaders and people to rise to their high calling. Moses (Numbers 11), Aaron and Miriam (Num. xii), Joshua (Numbers 11:28), the spies, who were also rulers (Deuteronomy 13, 14), and the people throughout, all in turn exhibit the defects of their character. In the end the enterprise is abandoned for the time. (2) The thirty seven and a half years that follow are a period of disgrace, as appears by the absence of all note of time or place in the direct narrative between Numbers 14 and Numbers 20. Certain places are mentioned in Numbers 33 which must belong to this period, but nothing is recorded of them beyond the names. A single verse (Deuteronomy 2:1), is all that is assignable to that period in this discourse of Moses. This long wandering was also a period of training and discipline. (3) The fortieth year of the exodus, in which the conquest of Sihon and Og was effected, and Israel reached the banks of Jordan. The sentence of death pronounced against their elder generation having been executed, a new life was now begun. . . .

Verse 5. - The locality is again described as beyond Jordan (see on ver. 1), and in the land of Moab. This designates the region elsewhere called Arboth Moab - the Plains of Moab (Numbers 22:1; Deuteronomy 34:1, etc.), the region on the east of the Jordan, opposite to Jericho, now known as the region of Kerak (Burckhardt, 'Syria,' p. 377, etc.; Robinson, 'Bib. Res.," 2:569). Began; rather set himself to. The Hebrew word signifies to undertake, to betake one's self to, and so to begin It is variously rendered in the Authorized Version (comp. Genesis 18:27, "taken it upon me;" Exodus 2:21, "was content," had made up his mind; 1 Samuel 12:22, "it pleased;" 17:39,"assayed," etc.). To declare, i.e. make clear, explain, expound (Habakkuk 2:2, "make plain "). The Hebrew word here used (בָאַר) signifies primarily to cut or dig, then to cut into, to grave, and then to cut or dig out so as to make evident, to declare, to make plain. What Moses set himself to do, then, was not to publish a new law, but to make plain to the people the Law already promulgated, to set forth clearly and pointedly what they were required by the Law to be and to do. This explains more fully the "spake" (דִבֶּר) of ver. 3. This exposition of the Law was designed specially for the sake of those who, at the time the Law was first promulgated, either were not born or were incapable of understanding it (Grotius). The expression used by Moses plainly indicates that this book was not intended to furnish a second code of laws different from the former, but simply to explain and enforce what had before been enjoined.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
On the east side
בְּעֵ֥בֶר (bə·‘ê·ḇer)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 5676: A region across, on the opposite side

of the Jordan
הַיַּרְדֵּ֖ן (hay·yar·dên)
Article | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 3383: Jordan -- the principal river of Palestine

in the land
בְּאֶ֣רֶץ (bə·’e·reṣ)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 776: Earth, land

of Moab,
מוֹאָ֑ב (mō·w·’āḇ)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 4124: Moab -- a son of Lot,also his descendants and the territory where they settled

Moses
מֹשֶׁ֔ה (mō·šeh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 4872: Moses -- a great Israelite leader, prophet and lawgiver

began
הוֹאִ֣יל (hō·w·’îl)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 2974: To show willingness, be pleased, determine, undertake (to do anything)

to explain
בֵּאֵ֛ר (bê·’êr)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 874: To dig, to engrave, to explain

this
הַזֹּ֖את (haz·zōṯ)
Article | Pronoun - feminine singular
Strong's 2063: Hereby in it, likewise, the one other, same, she, so much, such deed, that,

law,
הַתּוֹרָ֥ה (hat·tō·w·rāh)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8451: Direction, instruction, law

saying:
לֵאמֹֽר׃ (lê·mōr)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 559: To utter, say


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