³ Now it came to pass ^(A)in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spoke to the children of Israel according to all that the Lord had given him as commandments to them,

⁸ See, I have set the land before you; go in and possess the land which the Lord ^[a]swore to your fathers—to ^(A)Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—to give to them and their descendants after them.’