Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason, Conway vol. 4, page 94.
In Deuteronomy, the style and manner of writing marks more evidently than in the former books that Moses is not
the writer. (…) This interchange of speakers occurs four times in this book: from the first verse of the first chapter, to the end of the fifth verse, it is the writer who speaks; he then introduces Moses as in the act of making his harangue, and
this continues to the end of the 40th verse of the fourth chapter; here the writer drops Moses, and speaks historically of what was done in consequence of what Moses, when living, is supposed to have said, and which the writer has dramatically rehearsed.
These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond Jordan, in the wilderness of wild fields, against the red sea, betwixt Pharan and Tophel and Laban and Asseroth, where many a thing is gold, eleven days from Oreb by the way of the hill of Seyr unto Cades Barne. In the 14th year (or the 40th, the Later Version), in the eleventh month and on the first day of the month, Moses told the sons of Israel all the things the Lord had commanded that he should say to them; after that he smote Seon, the king of Amorreis that dwelled in Esebon; and Og, the king of Basan that dwelled in Asseroth and in Edray, beyond Jordan, in the land of Moab.
Interpretation to Modern English © Teresa Pelka, M.A.
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3-5
The fourteenthe ʒeer, the enleuenth moneth, the first day of the moneth, Moyses spak to the sones of Yrael alle thingis that the Lord hadde comaundid to hym that he shulde seye to hem, after that he smoot Seon, the kyng of Amorreis, that dwellid in Esebon, and Og, the kyng of Basan, that dwellid in Asseroth and in Edray, biʒonde Jordan, in the loond of Moab.
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In the fortithe ʒeer, in the enleuenth monethe, in the firste dai of the monethe, Moises spak to the sones of Israel alle thingis whiche the Lord commandide to hym that he schulde seie to hem, after that he smoot Seon, kyngh of Ammorreis, that dwellide in Esebon, and Og, the kyng of Basan, that dwelide in Asseroth and in Edray, ouer Jordan, in the lond of Moab.
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