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These be
the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on
this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain
over against the Red sea, between Paran, and
Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
02 (There are eleven days' journey from
Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto
Kadeshbarnea.)
03 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 the Lord had
given him in commandment unto them;
04 After he had slain Sihon the king of the
Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king
of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei:
05 On this side Jordan, in the land of
Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying,
06 The Lord our God spake unto us in Horeb,
saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount:
07 Turn you, and take your journey, and go
to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the
places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the
hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by
the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and
unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river
Euphrates.
08 Behold, I have set the land before you:
go in and possess the land which the Lord sware
unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to
give unto them and to their seed after them.
09 And I spake unto you at that time,
saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:
10 The Lord your God hath multiplied you,
and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of
heaven for multitude.
11 (The Lord God of your fathers make you a
thousand times so many more 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 among your tribes, and I will make them
rulers 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 chief of your tribes, wise
men, and known, and made them heads over you,
captains over thousands, and captains over
hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains
over tens, and officers among your tribes.
16 And I charged your judges at that time,
saying, Hear the causes between your brethren,
and judge righteously between every man and his
brother, and the stranger that is with him.
17 Ye shall not respect persons in
judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as
the great; 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, bring it unto me, and I
will hear it.
18 And I commanded you at that time all the
things which ye should do.
19 And when we departed from Horeb, we went
through all that great and terrible wilderness,
which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the
Amorites, as the Lord our God commanded us; and
we came to Kadeshbarnea.
20 And I said unto you, Ye are come unto
the mountain of the Amorites, which the Lord our
God doth give unto us.
21 Behold, the Lord thy God hath set the
land before thee: go up and possess it, as the
Lord God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear
not, neither be discouraged.
22 And ye came near unto me every one of
you, and said, We will send men before us, and
they shall search us out the land, and bring us
word again by what way we must go up, and into
what cities we shall come.
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23 And the saying pleased me
well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a
tribe:
24 And they turned and went up into the
mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and
searched 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 the Lord our God doth give us.
26 Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but
rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your
God:
27 And ye murmured in your tents, and said,
Because the Lord 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 shall we go up? our brethren
have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is
greater and taller than we; the cities are great
and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have
seen the sons of the Anakims there.
29 Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither
be afraid of them.
30 The Lord your God which goeth before
you, he shall 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 the Lord thy God bare thee, as a
man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye
went, until ye came into this place.
32 Yet in this thing ye did not believe the
Lord your God,
33 Who went in the way before you, to
search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in
fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should
go, and in a cloud by day.
34 And the Lord 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 that 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 the Lord.
37 Also the Lord was angry with me for your
sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither.
38 But Joshua the son of Nun, which
standeth before thee, he shall go in thither:
encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to
inherit it.
39 Moreover your little ones, which ye said
should be a prey, and your children, which in
that day had no knowledge between good and 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 of the Red
sea.
41 Then ye answered and said unto me, We
have sinned against the Lord, we will go up and
fight, according to all that the Lord our God
commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man
his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into
the hill.
42 And the Lord 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 would not
hear, but rebelled against the commandment of the
Lord, and went presumptuously up into the hill.
44 And the Amorites, which dwelt in that
mountain, came out against you, and chased you,
as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, even unto
Hormah.
45 And ye returned and wept before the
Lord; but the Lord would not hearken to your
voice, nor give ear unto you.
46 So ye abode in Kadesh many days,
according unto the days that ye abode there.
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