Midrasch zu Dewarim 3:1

(Deut. 7:12:) AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS IF YOU HEED <THESE STATUTES>…. This text is related (to Ps. 49:6 [5]): WHY SHOULD I FEAR IN THE EVIL DAYS, WHEN THE INIQUITY OF MY HEELS ENCOMPASS ME? May the Name of the Holy One be blessed, because he has given a Torah to Israel in which there are six hundred and thirteen simple and weighty commandments;¹Tanh., Deut. 3:1. but the children of Adam pay no attention to them. Instead they cast them under their heels while saying they are simple.²Cf. Matthew 23:23 // Luke 11:42. For that reason David was afraid of the Day of Judgment and said: Sovereign of the Universe, I am not afraid of the weighty commandments which are in the Torah, because they are weighty. Of what am I afraid? Of the simple commandments, lest I have transgressed one of them, whether I have fulfilled it or not, because it is simple; for you have said: Be as mindful of the simple commandments as of the weighty commandments.³Avot 2:1. It therefore says (in Ps. 49:6 [5]): WHY SHOULD I FEAR IN THE EVIL DAYS?

(Deut. 2:31): SEE I HAVE BEGUN TO GIVE SIHON AND HIS LAND OVER TO YOU. BEGIN <TO TAKE> POSSESSION <OF HIS LAND>. This text is related (to Amos 2:9): YET I DESTROYED THE AMORITE²⁶Although THE AMORITE implies the Amorite people in the biblical context, in the context of the midrash the singular AMORITE refers to Sihon. BEFORE YOU,²⁷The Masoretic Text reads BEFORE THEM. WHOSE STATURE WAS LIKE THE CEDARS IN HEIGHT AND WHO WAS AS STRONG AS THE OAKS. R. Johanan said:²⁸Cf. Deut. R. 1:24. Sihon's thighbone was eighteen cubits according to the cubits of the children of his generation.²⁹Gk.: kole. (Deut. 3:1:) AND OG, KING OF BASHAN. Abba Saul says: I used to bury the dead.³⁰Nid. 24:b. One time I ran after a deer and entered within the thighbone of a corpse. Moreover, I ran after it for three parasangs,³¹Persian miles of about four thousand yards each. Persian: farsang; Gk.: parasaggai. without reaching the deer and without the thighbone ending. I asked: Who is he? And they said to me: This is the thighbone of Og, King of Bashan.