1 ¹ These are the words of the covenant that the Lord commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel ^cin the land of Moab, besides ^dthe covenant that he had made with them at Horeb.

2 ² And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: ^e“You have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land, 3 the great ^ftrials that your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders. 4 But to this day ^gthe Lord has not given you a heart to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear. 5 ^hI have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandals have not worn off your feet. 6 ⁱYou have not eaten bread, and you have not drunk wine or strong drink, that you may know that I am the Lord your God. 7 And when you came to this place, ^jSihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came out against us to battle, but we defeated them. 8 We took their land and ^kgave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of the Manassites.