- Hebrew name
- דְּבָרִים
- Book
- Deuteronomy
- Verses
- Dt 1,1–3,22
- Haftara
- Is 1,1–27
The book is a farewell discourse that tells people what they did not live through: the generation born in the desert receives the history of its parents. It is the first staging of a transmission to non-witnessing heirs — the exact situation of all family memory. The narrative is reorganized, failures are recalled in it, the tone is that of a bequest.