Deuteronomy 1:5

5 On this side the Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to unfold ^[a] this law, saying,

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 And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first of the month, that Moses spoke to the children of Israel, according to all that Jehovah had given him in command to them;

4 after he had smitten Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who dwelt at Ashtaroth [and] at Edrei.

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

6 Jehovah our God spoke unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have stayed long enough in this mountain.

7 Turn and take your journey, and go to the hill-country of the Amorites, and unto all the neighbouring places in the plain, in the mountain, and in the lowland, and in the south, and by the seaside, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.

Footnotes

• [a]. Or 'expound.'