Deuteronomy 1
1 These are the words which Moses spake unto all Israel beyond the Jordan in the
wilderness, in the Arabah over against Suph, between Paran, and Tophel, and
Laban, and Hazeroth, and Di-zahab.
2 It is eleven days' [journey] from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto
Kadesh-barnea.
3 And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first
day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto
all that Jehovah had given him in commandment unto them;
4 after he had smitten Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and
Og the king of Bashan, who dwelt in Ashtaroth, at Edrei.
5 Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law,
saying,
6 Jehovah our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in
this mountain:
7 turn you, and take your journey, and go to the hill-country of the Amorites,
and unto all [the places] nigh thereunto, in the Arabah, in the hill-country,
and in the lowland, and in the South, and by the sea-shore, the land of the
Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.
8 Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which
Jehovah sware unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give
unto them and to their seed after them.
9 And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself
alone:
10 Jehovah your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the
stars of heaven for multitude.
11 Jehovah, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as ye
are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!
12 How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
13 Take you wise men, and understanding, and known, according to your tribes,
and I will make them heads over you.
14 And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good [for
us] to do.
15 So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads
over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of
fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes.
16 And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear [the causes] between
your brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the
sojourner that is with him.
17 Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; ye shall hear the small and the
great alike; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is
God's: and the cause that is too hard for you ye shall bring unto me, and I will
hear it.
18 And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do.
19 And we journeyed from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible
wilderness which ye saw, by the way to the hill-country of the Amorites, as
Jehovah our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.
20 And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the hill-country of the Amorites, which
Jehovah our God giveth unto us.
21 Behold, Jehovah thy God hath set the land before thee: go up, take
possession, as Jehovah, the God of thy fathers, hath spoken unto thee; fear not,
neither be dismayed.
22 And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, Let us send men before
us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by
which we must go up, and the cities unto which we shall come.
23 And the thing pleased me well; and I took twelve men of you, one man for
every tribe:
24 and they turned and went up into the hill-country, and came unto the valley
of Eshcol, and spied it out.
25 And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down
unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which Jehovah
our God giveth unto us.
26 Yet ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of Jehovah your
God:
27 and ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because Jehovah hated us, he hath
brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the
Amorites, to destroy us.
28 Whither are we going up? our brethren have made our heart to melt, saying,
The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up
to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.
29 Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.
30 Jehovah your God who goeth before you, he will fight for you, according to
all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,
31 and in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that Jehovah thy God bare
thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came
unto this place.
32 Yet in this thing ye did not believe Jehovah your God,
33 who went before you in the way, to seek you out a place to pitch your tents
in, in fire by night, to show you by what way ye should go, and in the cloud by
day.
34 And Jehovah heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,
35 Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see the good
land, which I sware to give unto your fathers,
36 save Caleb the son of Jephunneh: he shall see it; and to him will I give the
land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly
followed Jehovah.
37 Also Jehovah was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go
in thither:
38 Joshua the son of Nun, who standeth before thee, he shall go in thither:
encourage thou him; for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
39 Moreover your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, and your children,
that this day have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in thither, and
unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
40 But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the
way to the Red Sea.
41 Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against Jehovah, we will go
up and fight, according to all that Jehovah our God commanded us. And ye girded
on every man his weapons of war, and were forward to go up into the
hill-country.
42 And Jehovah said unto me, Say unto them, Go not up, neither fight; for I am
not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies.
43 So I spake unto you, and ye hearkened not; but ye rebelled against the
commandment of Jehovah, and were presumptuous, and went up into the
hill-country.
44 And the Amorites, that dwelt in that hill-country, came out against you, and
chased you, as bees do, and beat you down in Seir, even unto Hormah.
45 And ye returned and wept before Jehovah; but Jehovah hearkened not to your
voice, nor gave ear unto you.
46 So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode
[there] .