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Deuteronomy opens with Moses beginning his final great sermon to Israel in the wilderness of the Arabah between Paran Tophel Laban Hazeroth and Dizahab — a deliberate naming of all the wilderness landmarks where Israel had wandered and rebelled before the present hour of decision.
Deuteronomy 1:1-3 opens Moses's final sermon with a deliberate geographic catalog: "These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab. (There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadesh-barnea.) And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel." The placenames evoke the wilderness landscape where Israel had wandered and rebelled — Tophel identified with modern Tafileh in southern Jordan.
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