Yet I do find myself compelled by the link between these two verses. But rather than a refutation of Bəreishit’s doubts, I can’t shake the notion that Dəvarim is a confirmation of them. If the small hei at the beginning of the world is a tiny nagging doubt that maybe this whole Earth thing isn’t the best idea, the big one at the end of the Torah is a loud, honking “I told you so!”, a baleful recrimination that this whole project was mistaken from the jump.