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[1] These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suf, between Paran, Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab. [2] It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea. [3] In the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, Moses spoke to the children of Israel according to all that Yahweh§ had given him in commandment to them, [4] after he had struck Sihon the king of the Amorites who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan who lived in Ashtaroth, at Edrei. [5] Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses began to declare this law, saying, [6] “Yahweh our God§ spoke to us in Horeb, saying, ‘You have lived long enough at this mountain. [7] Turn, and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites and to all the places near there: in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the lowland, in the South, by the seashore, in the land of the Canaanites, and in 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 Yahweh swore to your fathers—to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob—to give to them and to their offspring§ after them.’ ” [9] I spoke to you at that time, saying, “I am not able to bear you myself alone. [10] Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are today as the stars of the sky for multitude. [11] May Yahweh, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are and bless you, as he has promised you! [12] How can I myself alone bear your problems, your burdens, and your strife? [13] Take wise men of understanding who are respected among your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.” [14] You answered me, and said, “The thing which you have spoken is good to do.” [15] So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and respected men, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, captains of hundreds, captains of fifties, captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes. [16] I commanded your judges at that time, saying, “Hear cases between your brothers and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him. [17] You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.” [18] I commanded you at that time all the things which you should do. [19] We traveled from Horeb and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw, by the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as Yahweh our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh Barnea. [20] I said to you, “You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which Yahweh our God gives to us. [21] Behold, Yahweh your God has set the land before you. Go up, take possession, as Yahweh the God of your fathers has spoken to you. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed.” [22] You came near to me, everyone of you, and said, “Let’s send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring back to us word of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come.” [23] The thing pleased me well. I took twelve of your men, one man for every tribe. [24] They turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out. [25] They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us, and brought us word again, and said, “It is a good land which Yahweh our God gives to us.” [26] Yet you wouldn’t go up, but rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God. [27] You murmured in your tents, and said, “Because Yahweh hated us, he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us. [28] Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our heart melt, saying, ‘The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to the sky. Moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there!’ ” [29] Then I said to you, “Don’t be terrified. Don’t be afraid of them. [30] Yahweh your God, who goes 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 you have seen how that Yahweh your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went, until you came to this place.” [32] Yet in this thing you didn’t believe Yahweh your God, [33] who went before you on the way, to seek out a place for you to pitch your tents in: in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in the cloud by day. [34] Yahweh heard the voice of your words and was angry, and swore, saying, [35] “Surely not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land which I swore to give to your fathers, [36] except Caleb the son of Jephunneh. He shall see it. I will give the land that he has trodden on to him and to his children, because he has wholly followed Yahweh.” [37] Also Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, saying, “You also shall not go in there. [38] Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, shall go in there. Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it. [39] Moreover your little ones, whom you said would be captured or killed, your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, shall go in there. I will give it to them, and they shall possess it. [40] But as for you, turn, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.” [41] Then you answered and said to me, “We have sinned against Yahweh. We will go up and fight, according to all that Yahweh our God commanded us.” Every man of you put on his weapons of war, and presumed to go up into the hill country. [42] Yahweh said to me, “Tell them, ‘Don’t go up and don’t fight; for I am not among you, lest you be struck before your enemies.’ ” [43] So I spoke to you, and you didn’t listen; but you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh, and were presumptuous, and went up into the hill country. [44] The Amorites, who lived in that hill country, came out against you and chased you as bees do, and beat you down in Seir, even to Hormah. [45] You returned and wept before Yahweh, but Yahweh didn’t listen to your voice, nor turn his ear to you. [46] So you stayed in Kadesh many days, according to the days that you remained.

Footnotes

  1. § 1:3 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “Lord” (all caps) in other translations.
  2. § 1:6 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).
  3. § 1:8a “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.
  4. § 1:8b or, seed
King James Version
[1] These be the words H1697 which Moses H4872 spake H1696 (PielPerf) unto all Israel H3478 on this side H5676 Jordan H3383 in the wilderness, H4057 in the plain H6160 over against H4136 the Red H5489 sea,§ between Paran, H6290 and Tophel, H8603 and Laban, H3837 and Hazeroth, H2698 and Dizahab. H1774 [2] (There are eleven H259 days’ H3117 journey from Horeb H2722 by the way H1870 of mount H2022 Seir H8165 unto Kadesh-barnea.) H6947 [3] And it came to pass in the fortieth H705 year, H8141 in the eleventh H6249 month, H2320 on the first H259 day of the month, H2320 that Moses H4872 spake H1696 (PielPerf) unto the children H1121 of Israel, H3478 according unto all that the Lord H3068 had given him in commandment H6680 (PielPerf) unto them; [4] after H310 he had slain H5221 (HiphInf) Sihon H5511 the king H4428 of the Amorites, H567 which dwelt H3427 (QalActPtc) in Heshbon, H2809 and Og H5747 the king H4428 of Bashan, H1316 which dwelt H3427 (QalActPtc) at Astaroth H6252 in Edrei: H154 [5] on this side H5676 Jordan, H3383 in the land H776 of Moab, H4124 began H2974 (HiphPerf) Moses H4872 to declare H874 (PielInf) this law, H8451 saying, H559 (QalInf) [6] The Lord H3068 our God H430 spake H1696 (PielPerf) unto us in Horeb, H2722 saying, H559 (QalInf) Ye have dwelt H3427 (QalInf) long enough H7227 in this mount: H2022 [7] turn H6437 (QalImpv) you, and take your journey, H5265 (QalImpv) and go H935 (QalImpv) to the mount H2022 of the Amorites, H567 and unto all the places§ nigh H7934 thereunto, in the plain, H6160 in the hills, H2022 and in the vale, H8219 and in the south, H5045 and by the sea H3220 side, H2348 to the land H776 of the Canaanites, H3669 and unto Lebanon, H3844 unto the great H1419 river, H5104 the river H5104 Euphrates. H6578 [8] Behold, H7200 (QalImpv) I have set H5414 (QalPerf)§ the land H776 before H6440 you: go H935 (QalImpv) in and possess H3423 (QalImpv) the land H776 which the Lord H3068 sware H7650 (NiphPerf) unto your fathers, H1 Abraham, H85 Isaac, H3327 and Jacob, H3290 to give H5414 (QalInf) unto them and to their seed H2233 after H310 them. [9] And I spake H559 (QalImpf) unto you at that time, H6256 saying, H559 (QalInf) I am not able H3201 (QalImpf) to bear H5375 (QalInf) you myself alone: H905 [10] the Lord H3068 your God H430 hath multiplied H7235 (HiphPerf) you, and, behold, ye are this day H3117 as the stars H3556 of heaven H8064 for multitude. H7230 [11] (The Lord H3068 God H430 of your fathers H1 make you a thousand H505 times H6471 so many more as H3254 (HiphImpf) ye are, and bless H1288 (PielImpf) you, as he hath promised H1696 (PielPerf) you!) [12] How H349 can I myself alone bear H5375 (QalImpf) your cumbrance, H2960 and your burden, H4853 and your strife? H7379 [13] Take H3051 (QalImpv)§ you wise H2450 men, H582 and understanding, H995 (NiphPtc) and known H3045 (QalPasPtc) among your tribes, H7626 and I will make H7760 (QalImpf) them rulers H7218 over you. [14] And ye answered H6030 (QalImpf) me, and said, H559 (QalImpf) The thing H1697 which thou hast spoken H1696 (PielPerf) is good H2896 for us to do. H6213 (QalInf) [15] So I took H3947 (QalImpf) the chief H7218 of your tribes, H7626 wise H2450 men, H582 and known, H3045 (QalPasPtc) and made H5414 (QalImpf)§ them heads H7218 over you, captains H8269 over thousands, H505 and captains H8269 over hundreds, H3967 and captains H8269 over fifties, H2572 and captains H8269 over tens, H6235 and officers H7860 (QalActPtc) among your tribes. H7626 [16] And I charged H6680 (PielImpf) your judges H8199 (QalActPtc) at that time, H6256 saying, H559 (QalInf) Hear H8085 (QalInf) the causes between your brethren, H251 and judge H8199 (QalPerf) righteously H6664 between every man H376 and his brother, H251 and the stranger H1616 that is with him. [17] Ye shall not respect H5234 (HiphImpf) persons H6440§ in judgment; H4941 but ye shall hear H8085 (QalImpf) the small H6996 as well as the great; H1419 ye shall not be afraid H1481 (QalImpf) of the face H6440 of man; H376 for the judgment H4941 is God’s: H430 and the cause H1697 that is too hard H7185 (QalImpf) for you, bring H7126 (HiphImpf) it unto me, and I will hear H8085 (QalPerf) it. [18] And I commanded H6680 (PielImpf) you at that time H6256 all the things H1697 which ye should do. H6213 (QalImpf) [19] And when we departed H5265 (QalImpf) from Horeb, H2722 we went through H3212 (QalImpf) all that great H1419 and terrible H3372 (NiphPtc) wilderness, H4057 which ye saw H7200 (QalPerf) by the way H1870 of the mountain H2022 of the Amorites, H567 as the Lord H3068 our God H430 commanded H6680 (PielPerf) us; and we came H935 (QalImpf) to Kadesh-barnea. H6947 [20] And I said H559 (QalImpf) unto you, Ye are come H935 (QalPerf) unto the mountain H2022 of the Amorites, H567 which the Lord H3068 our God H430 doth give H5414 (QalActPtc) unto us. [21] Behold, H7200 (QalImpv) the Lord H3068 thy God H430 hath set H5414 (QalPerf) the land H776 before H6440 thee: go up H5927 (QalImpv) and possess H3423 (QalImpv) it, as the Lord H3068 God H430 of thy fathers H1 hath said H1696 (PielPerf) unto thee; fear H3372 (QalImpf) not, neither be discouraged. H2865 (NiphImpf) [22] And ye came near H7126 (QalImpf) unto me every one of you, and said, H559 (QalImpf) We will send H7971 (QalImpf) men H582 before H6440 us, and they shall search us out H2658 (QalImpf) the land, H776 and bring H7725 us word H1697 again H7725 (HiphImpf) by what way H1870 we must go up, H5927 (QalImpf) and into what cities H5892 we shall come. H935 (QalImpf) [23] And the saying H1697 pleased me well: H3190 (QalImpf) and I took H3947 (QalImpf) twelve H8147 men H582 of you, one H259 of a tribe: H376 [24] and they turned H6437 (QalImpf) and went up H5927 (QalImpf) into the mountain, H2022 and came H935 (QalImpf) unto the valley H5158 of Eshcol, H812 and searched it out. H7270 (PielImpf) [25] And they took H3947 (QalImpf) of the fruit H6529 of the land H776 in their hands, H3027 and brought it down H3381 (HiphImpf) unto us, and brought H7725 us word H1697 again, H7725 (HiphImpf) and said, H559 (QalImpf) It is a good H2896 land H776 which the Lord H3068 our God H430 doth give H5414 (QalActPtc) us. [26] Notwithstanding ye would H14 (QalPerf) not go up, H5927 (QalInf) but rebelled H4784 (HiphImpf) against the commandment H6310 of the Lord H3068 your God: H430 [27] and ye murmured H7279 (NiphImpf) in your tents, H168 and said, H559 (QalImpf) Because the Lord H3068 hated H8135 us, he hath brought us forth H3318 (HiphPerf) out of the land H776 of Egypt, H4714 to deliver H5414 (QalInf) us into the hand H3027 of the Amorites, H567 to destroy H8045 (HiphInf) us. [28] Whither shall we go up? H5927 (QalActPtc) our brethren H251 have discouraged H4549 (HiphPerf)§ our heart, H3824 saying, H559 (QalInf) The people H5971 is greater H1419 and taller H7311 (QalActPtc) than we; the cities H5892 are great H1419 and walled up H1219 (QalPasPtc) to heaven; H8064 and moreover we have seen H7200 (QalPerf) the sons H1121 of the Anakims H6062 there. [29] Then I said H559 (QalImpf) unto you, Dread H6206 (QalImpf) not, neither be afraid H3372 (QalImpf) of them. [30] The Lord H3068 your God H430 which goeth H1980 (QalActPtc) before H6440 you, he shall fight H3898 (NiphImpf) for you, according to all that he did H6213 (QalPerf) for you in Egypt H4714 before your eyes; H5869 [31] and in the wilderness, H4057 where thou hast seen H7200 (QalPerf) how that the Lord H3068 thy God H430 bare H5375 (QalPerf) thee, as a man H376 doth bear H5375 (QalImpf) his son, H1121 in all the way H1870 that ye went, H1980 (QalPerf) until ye came H935 (QalInf) into this place. H4725 [32] Yet in this thing H1697 ye did not believe H539 (HiphPtc) the Lord H3068 your God, H430 [33] who went H1980 (QalActPtc) in the way H1870 before H6440 you, to search you out H8446 (QalInf) a place H4725 to pitch your tents H2583 (QalInf) in, fire H784 by night, H3915 to shew H7200 (HiphInf) you by what way H1870 ye should go, H3212 (QalImpf) and in a cloud H6051 by day. H3119 [34] And the Lord H3068 heard H8085 (QalImpf) the voice H6963 of your words, H1697 and was wroth, H7107 (QalImpf) and sware, H7650 (NiphImpf) saying, H559 (QalInf) [35] Surely there shall not one H376 of these men H582 of this evil H7451 generation H1755 see H7200 (QalImpf) that good H2896 land, H776 which I sware H7650 (NiphPerf) to give H5414 (QalInf) unto your fathers, H1 [36] save H2108 Caleb H3612 the son H1121 of Jephunneh; H3312 he shall see H7200 (QalImpf) it, and to him will I give H5414 (QalImpf) the land H776 that H834 he hath trodden upon, H1869 (QalPerf) and to his children, H1121 because he hath wholly H4390 (PielPerf) followed H310§ the Lord. H3068 [37] Also the Lord H3068 was angry H599 (HithPerf) with me for your sakes, H1558 saying, H559 (QalInf) Thou also shalt not go H935 (QalImpf) in thither. H8033 [38] But Joshua H3091 the son H1121 of Nun, H5126 which standeth H5975 (QalActPtc) before H6440 thee, he shall go in H935 (QalImpf) thither: encourage H2388 (PielImpv) him: for he shall cause Israel H3478 to inherit H5157 (HiphImpf) it. [39] Moreover your little ones, H2945 which ye said H559 (QalPerf) should be a prey, H957 and your children, H1121 which in that day H3117 had no knowledge H3045 (QalPerf) between good H2896 and evil, H7451 they shall go in H935 (QalImpf) thither, and unto them will I give H5414 (QalImpf) it, and they shall possess H3423 (QalImpf) it. [40] But as for you, turn H6437 (QalImpv) you, and take your journey H5265 (QalImpv) into the wilderness H4057 by the way H1870 of the Red H5488 sea. H3220 [41] Then ye answered H6030 (QalImpf) and said H559 (QalImpf) unto me, We have sinned H2398 (QalPerf) against the Lord, H3068 we will go up H5927 (QalImpf) and fight, H3898 (NiphPerf) according to all that the Lord H3068 our God H430 commanded H6680 (PielPerf) us. And when ye had girded H2296 (QalImpf) on every man H376 his weapons H3627 of war, H4421 ye were ready H1951 (HiphImpf) to go up H5927 (QalInf) into the hill. H2022 [42] And the Lord H3068 said H559 (QalImpf) unto me, Say H559 (QalImpv) unto them, Go not up, H5927 (QalImpf) neither fight; H3898 (NiphImpf) for I am not among H7130 you; lest ye be smitten H5062 (NiphImpf) before H6440 your enemies. H341 (QalActPtc) [43] So I spake H1696 (PielImpf) unto you; and ye would not hear, H8085 (QalPerf) but rebelled H4784 (HiphImpf) against the commandment H6310 of the Lord, H3068 and went H5927 presumptuously H2102 (HiphImpf)§ up H5927 (QalImpf) into the hill. H2022 [44] And the Amorites, H567 which dwelt H3427 (QalActPtc) in that mountain, H2022 came out H3318 (QalImpf) against H7125 (QalInf) you, and chased H7291 (QalImpf) you, as bees H1682 do, H6213 (QalImpf) and destroyed H3807 (HiphImpf) you in Seir, H8165 even unto Hormah. H2767 [45] And ye returned H7725 (QalImpf) and wept H1058 (QalImpf) before H6440 the Lord; H3068 but the Lord H3068 would not hearken H8085 (QalPerf) to your voice, H6963 nor give ear H238 (HiphPerf) unto you. [46] So ye abode H3427 (QalImpf) in Kadesh H6946 many H7227 days, H3117 according unto the days H3117 that ye abode H3427 (QalPerf) there.

Footnotes

  1. § 1:1 Or, Zuph
  2. § 1:7 Heb. all his neighbours
  3. § 1:8 Heb. given
  4. § 1:13 Heb. Give
  5. § 1:15 Heb. gave
  6. § 1:17 Heb. acknowledge faces
  7. § 1:28 Heb. melted
  8. § 1:36 Heb. fulfilled to go after
  9. § 1:43 Heb. you were presumptuous, and went up
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