TO MAKE PLAIN, to expound — a verb of explanation whose consonants are also those of be’er, a well. ⭐ The verb stands in three verses of the Hebrew Bible, and the first two frame this whole book: Deuteronomy 1:5, where Moses undertook to make this instruction plain, the sentence that opens Deuteronomy, and 27:8, where the same law is to be written on the stones of Ebal plainly and thoroughly — begun in speech across the Jordan, finished in writing on the far side. The third is Habakkuk 2:2 (not yet on these pages): write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, so that one who reads it may run. ⚠ Because the letters also spell a well, a consonantal search returns dozens of verses; only these three are the verb. The KJV reads ‘very plainly’ at 27:8 and ‘began Moses to declare’ at 1:5, the NWT 1984 ‘making them quite clear’ and ‘undertook to explain’; the RV60 «muy claramente» and «resolvió Moisés declarar». → first discussed at Deut 27:8