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 Suf, 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 the LORD had given him in mitzvah 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} The LORD 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 the LORD 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} The LORD your God has multiplied you, and behold,
you are this day as the stars of the sky for multitude. {1:11} The
LORD, 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 the
LORD 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 the
LORD our God gives to us. {1:21} Behold, the LORD your God has set the
land before you: go up, take possession, as the LORD, 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 the LORD our God gives to us. {1:26} Yet you wouldn't go up, but
rebelled against the mitzvah of the LORD your God: {1:27} and you
murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD 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} The LORD
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 the LORD 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 the
LORD 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} The LORD 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
the LORD. {1:37} Also the LORD 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 the
LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD 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} The LORD 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 mitzvah of the LORD, 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 the LORD; but the LORD 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 the LORD spoke to me; and we compassed
Mount Seir many days. {2:2} The LORD 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 the LORD your God has blessed
you in all the work of your hand; he has known your walking through
this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD 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} The LORD 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 the
LORD 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 the LORD swore to them. {2:15}
Moreover the hand of the LORD 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 the LORD 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 the LORD 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 the LORD our God
gives us. {2:30} But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by
him; for the LORD your God hardened his spirit, and made his heart
obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as at this day.
{2:31} The LORD 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} The LORD 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; the
LORD 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 the LORD 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} The LORD 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 the LORD 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, the LORD 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 the LORD give rest to your brothers, as to you, and they also
possess the land which the LORD 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 the LORD your God has done to these two kings: so shall
the LORD do to all the kingdoms where you go over. {3:22} You shall
not fear them; for the LORD your God, he it is who fights for you.
{3:23} I begged the LORD at that time, saying, {3:24} Lord GOD, 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 the LORD was angry with me for your
sakes, and didn't listen to me; and the LORD 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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