Deuteronomy, starting at chapter 1
{1:1} These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the
Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah over against Suph, between
Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab. {1:2} It is
eleven days' [journey] from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh
Barnea. {1:3} It happened in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month,
on the first day of the month, that Moses spoke to the children of
Israel, according to all that Yahweh had given him in commandment to
them; {1:4} 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. {1:5} Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to
declare this law, saying, {1:6} Yahweh our God spoke to us in Horeb,
saying, You have lived long enough in this mountain: {1:7} 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, and
in the lowland, and in the South, and by the seashore, the land of the
Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river
Euphrates. {1:8} 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 seed after them.
{1:9} I spoke to you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you
myself alone: {1:10} Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and behold,
you are this day as the stars of the sky for multitude. {1:11} Yahweh,
the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are,
and bless you, as he has promised you! {1:12} How can I myself alone
bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? {1:13} Take
wise men of understanding and well known according to your tribes, and
I will make them heads over you. {1:14} You answered me, and said, The
thing which you have spoken is good [for us] to do. {1:15} 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. {1:16} I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear
[the causes] between your brothers, and judge righteously between a
man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him. {1:17}
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: and the cause that is too hard for you, you
shall bring to me, and I will hear it. {1:18} I commanded you at that
time all the things which you should do. {1:19} 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. {1:20} I said to you,
You are come to the hill country of the Amorites, which Yahweh our God
gives to us. {1:21} 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. {1:22} You came
near to me everyone 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 to which we shall come. {1:23} The
thing pleased me well; and I took twelve men of you, one man for every
tribe: {1:24} and they turned and went up into the hill country, and
came to the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out. {1:25} They took 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. {1:26} Yet you wouldn't go up, but rebelled against
the commandment of Yahweh your God: {1:27} and you murmured in your
tents, and said, Because Yahweh hated us, he has brought us forth out
of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to
destroy us. {1:28} Where are we going up? our brothers have made our
heart to melt, saying, The people are greater and taller than we; the
cities are great and fortified up to the sky; and moreover we have
seen the sons of the Anakim there. {1:29} Then I said to you, Don't
dread, neither be afraid of them. {1:30} 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, {1:31} and in the wilderness, where you
have seen how that Yahweh your God bore you, as a man does bear his
son, in all the way that you went, until you came to this place.
{1:32} Yet in this thing you didn't believe Yahweh your God, {1:33}
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 you should go, and
in the cloud by day. {1:34} Yahweh heard the voice of your words, and
was angry, and swore, saying, {1:35} Surely there shall not one of
these men of this evil generation see the good land, which I swore to
give to your fathers, {1:36} save Caleb the son of Jephunneh: he shall
see it; and to him will I give the land that he has trodden on, and to
his children, because he has wholly followed Yahweh. {1:37} Also
Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, saying, You also shall not go
in there: {1:38} Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he
shall go in there: encourage you him; for he shall cause Israel to
inherit it. {1:39} Moreover your little ones, whom you said should be
a prey, and your children, who this day have no knowledge of good or
evil, they shall go in there, and to them will I give it, and they
shall possess it. {1:40} But as for you, turn you, and take your
journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea. {1:41} 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. You
girded on every man his weapons of war, and were forward to go up into
the hill country. {1:42} Yahweh said to me, Tell them, Don't go up,
neither fight; for I am not among you; lest you be struck before your
enemies. {1:43} 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. {1:44} 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. {1:45} You returned and wept
before Yahweh; but Yahweh didn't listen to your voice, nor gave ear to
you. {1:46} So you abode in Kadesh many days, according to the days
that you abode [there].
{2:1} Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by
the way to the Red Sea, as Yahweh spoke to me; and we compassed Mount
Seir many days. {2:2} Yahweh spoke to me, saying, {2:3} You have
compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward. {2:4} Command
you the people, saying, You are to pass through the border of your
brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be
afraid of you: take good heed to yourselves therefore; {2:5} don't
contend with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so
much as for the sole of the foot to tread on; because I have given
Mount Seir to Esau for a possession. {2:6} You shall purchase food of
them for money, that you may eat; and you shall also buy water of them
for money, that you may drink. {2:7} For Yahweh your God has blessed
you in all the work of your hand; he has known your walking through
this great wilderness: these forty years Yahweh your God has been with
you; you have lacked nothing. {2:8} So we passed by from our brothers
the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah
from Elath and from Ezion Geber. We turned and passed by the way of
the wilderness of Moab. {2:9} Yahweh said to me, Don't bother Moab,
neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give you of his
land for a possession; because I have given Ar to the children of Lot
for a possession. {2:10} (The Emim lived therein before, a people
great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim: {2:11} these also are
accounted Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.
{2:12} The Horites also lived in Seir before, but the children of Esau
succeeded them; and they destroyed them from before them, and lived in
their place; as Israel did to the land of his possession, which Yahweh
gave to them.) {2:13} Now rise up, and get you over the brook Zered.
We went over the brook Zered. {2:14} The days in which we came from
Kadesh Barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, were
thirty-eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were
consumed from the midst of the camp, as Yahweh swore to them. {2:15}
Moreover the hand of Yahweh was against them, to destroy them from the
midst of the camp, until they were consumed. {2:16} So it happened,
when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,
{2:17} that Yahweh spoke to me, saying, {2:18} You are this day to
pass over Ar, the border of Moab: {2:19} and when you come near over
against the children of Ammon, don't bother them, nor contend with
them; for I will not give you of the land of the children of Ammon for
a possession; because I have given it to the children of Lot for a
possession. {2:20} (That also is accounted a land of Rephaim: Rephaim
lived therein before; but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim, {2:21} a
people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim; but Yahweh destroyed
them before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place;
{2:22} as he did for the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, when he
destroyed the Horites from before them; and they succeeded them, and
lived in their place even to this day: {2:23} and the Avvim, who lived
in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, who came forth out of
Caphtor, destroyed them, and lived in their place.) {2:24} Rise up,
take your journey, and pass over the valley of the Arnon: behold, I
have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his
land; begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle. {2:25} This
day will I begin to put the dread of you and the fear of you on the
peoples who are under the whole sky, who shall hear the report of you,
and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of you. {2:26} I sent
messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon
with words of peace, saying, {2:27} Let me pass through your land: I
will go along by the highway, I will turn neither to the right hand
nor to the left. {2:28} You shall sell me food for money, that I may
eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only let me pass
through on my feet, {2:29} as the children of Esau who dwell in Seir,
and the Moabites who dwell in Ar, did to me; until I shall pass over
the Jordan into the land which Yahweh our God gives us. {2:30} But
Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for Yahweh your
God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might
deliver him into your hand, as at this day. {2:31} Yahweh said to me,
Behold, I have begun to deliver up Sihon and his land before you:
begin to possess, that you may inherit his land. {2:32} Then Sihon
came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz. {2:33}
Yahweh our God delivered him up before us; and we struck him, and his
sons, and all his people. {2:34} We took all his cities at that time,
and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the
little ones; we left none remaining: {2:35} only the livestock we took
for a prey to ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we had
taken. {2:36} From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the
Arnon, and [from] the city that is in the valley, even to Gilead,
there was not a city too high for us; Yahweh our God delivered up all
before us: {2:37} only to the land of the children of Ammon you didn't
come near; all the side of the river Jabbok, and the cities of the
hill country, and wherever Yahweh our God forbade us.
{3:1} Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the
king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle
at Edrei. {3:2} Yahweh said to me, Don't fear him; for I have
delivered him, and all his people, and his land, into your hand; and
you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who
lived at Heshbon. {3:3} So Yahweh our God delivered into our hand Og
also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we struck him until
none was left to him remaining. {3:4} We took all his cities at that
time; there was not a city which we didn't take from them; sixty
cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. {3:5}
All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars;
besides the unwalled towns a great many. {3:6} We utterly destroyed
them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every
inhabited city, with the women and the little ones. {3:7} But all the
livestock, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to
ourselves. {3:8} We took the land at that time out of the hand of the
two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the valley
of the Arnon to Mount Hermon; {3:9} ([which] Hermon the Sidonians call
Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir;) {3:10} all the cities of the
plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, to Salecah and Edrei, cities of
the kingdom of Og in Bashan. {3:11} (For only Og king of Bashan
remained of the remnant of the Rephaim; behold, his bedstead was a
bedstead of iron; isn't it in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? nine
cubits was the length of it, and four cubits the breadth of it, after
the cubit of a man.) {3:12} This land we took in possession at that
time: from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the
hill country of Gilead, and the cities of it, gave I to the Reubenites
and to the Gadites: {3:13} and the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the
kingdom of Og, gave I to the half-tribe of Manasseh; all the region of
Argob, even all Bashan. (The same is called the land of Rephaim.
{3:14} Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, to the
border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called them, even
Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth Jair, to this day.) {3:15} I gave
Gilead to Machir. {3:16} To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave
from Gilead even to the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley,
and the border [of it], even to the river Jabbok, which is the border
of the children of Ammon; {3:17} the Arabah also, and the Jordan and
the border [of it], from Chinnereth even to the sea of the Arabah, the
Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward. {3:18} I commanded you
at that time, saying, Yahweh your God has given you this land to
possess it: you shall pass over armed before your brothers the
children of Israel, all the men of valor. {3:19} But your wives, and
your little ones, and your livestock, (I know that you have much
livestock), shall abide in your cities which I have given you, {3:20}
until Yahweh give rest to your brothers, as to you, and they also
possess the land which Yahweh your God gives them beyond the Jordan:
then shall you return every man to his possession, which I have given
you. {3:21} I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Your eyes have
seen all that Yahweh your God has done to these two kings: so shall
Yahweh do to all the kingdoms where you go over. {3:22} You shall not
fear them; for Yahweh your God, he it is who fights for you. {3:23} I
begged Yahweh at that time, saying, {3:24} Lord Yahweh, you have begun
to show your servant your greatness, and your strong hand: for what
god is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to your
works, and according to your mighty acts? {3:25} Please let me go over
and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that goodly mountain,
and Lebanon. {3:26} But Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, and
didn't listen to me; and Yahweh said to me, Let it suffice you; speak
no more to me of this matter. {3:27} Go up to the top of Pisgah, and
lift up your eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and
eastward, and see with your eyes: for you shall not go over this
Jordan. {3:28} But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen
him; for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them
to inherit the land which you shall see. {3:29} So we abode in the
valley over against Beth Peor.
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