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 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} "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
commanded 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 have 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 commandment
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, and
take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Sea of Suf."
{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 commandment 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 Sea of Suf, as the LORD spoke to me; and we encircled
Mount Seir many days.
{2:2} The LORD spoke to me, saying, {2:3} "You have encircled this
mountain long enough. Turn northward. {2:4} Command 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 cross 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 its
length, and four cubits its breadth, 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 its
cities, 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 gives rest to your brothers, as to you, and
they also possess the land which the LORD your God gives them beyond
the Jordan: then you shall 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
commission 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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