Devarim, starting at chapter 1
{1:1} These are the words which Moshe spoke to all Yisra'el beyond
the Yarden in the wilderness, in the `Aravah over against Suf, between
Paran, and Tofel, and Lavan, and Hatzerot, and Di-Zahav. {1:2} It is
eleven days' [journey] from Horev by the way of Mount Se`ir to
Kadesh-Barnea. {1:3} It happened in the fortieth year, in the eleventh
month, on the first day of the month, that Moshe spoke to the children
of Yisra'el, according to all that the LORD had given him in
[1>]mitzvah[<1] to them; {1:4} after he had struck Sichon the king of
the Amori, who lived in Heshbon, and `Og the king of Bashan, who lived
in `Ashtarot, at Edre`i. {1:5} Beyond the Yarden, in the land of
Mo'av, began Moshe to declare this law, saying, {1:6} The LORD our God
spoke to us in Horev, saying, You have lived long enough in this
mountain: {1:7} turn you, and take your journey, and go to the
hill-country of the Amori, and to all [the places] near thereunto, in
the `Aravah, in the hill-country, and in the lowland, and in the
South, and by the sea-shore, the land of the Kana`anim, and Levanon,
as far as the great river, the river Perat. {1:8} Behold, I have set
the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD swore
to your fathers, to Avraham, to Yitzchak, and to Ya`akov, 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 sojourner who is 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 journeyed from Horev, and went through all
that great and terrible wilderness which you saw, by the way to the
hill-country of the Amori, 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 Amori, 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 Eshkol, 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 [2>]mitzvah[<2] 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 Mitzrayim, to deliver us into the hand of the
Amori, 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 Mitzrayim 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 Kalev the son of
Yefunneh: 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} Yehoshua the son of Nun, who
stands before you, he shall go in there: encourage you him; for he
shall cause Yisra'el 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 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 [3>]mitzvah[<3] of the
LORD, and were presumptuous, and went up into the hill-country. {1:44}
The Amori, who lived in that hill-country, came out against you, and
chased you, as bees do, and beat you down in Se`ir, 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 compassed
Mount Se`ir 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 Esav, who dwell in Se`ir; 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 Se`ir to Esav 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 Esav, who dwell in Se`ir, from the way of the
`Aravah from Elat and from `Etzyon-Gever. We turned and passed by the
way of the wilderness of Mo'av. {2:9} The LORD said to me, Don't
bother Mo'av, 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 Refa'im, as the `Anakim; but the Mo`avim call
them Emim. {2:12} The Hori also lived in Se`ir before, but the
children of Esav succeeded them; and they destroyed them from before
them, and lived in their place; as Yisra'el 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 Mo'av: {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 Refa'im: Refa'im lived therein before; but the
`Ammonim 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 Esav, who dwell in Se`ir, when he destroyed the Hori
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 `Aza, the Kaftorim, who came forth out of Kaftor, destroyed them,
and lived in their place.) {2:24} Rise you up, take your journey, and
pass over the valley of the Arnon: behold, I have given into your hand
Sichon the Amori, 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 Kedemot to Sichon king of Heshbon with words of shalom,
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 Esav who dwell in Se`ir, and the Mo`avim who
dwell in `Ar, did to me; until I shall pass over the Yarden into the
land which the LORD our God gives us. {2:30} But Sichon 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 Sichon and his land before you: begin to
possess, that you may inherit his land. {2:32} Then Sichon came out
against us, he and all his people, to battle at Yahatz. {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 cattle we took
for a prey to ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we had
taken. {2:36} From `Aro`er, which is on the edge of the valley of the
Arnon, and [from] the city that is in the valley, even to Gil`ad,
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 Yabbok, 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 Edre`i. {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 Sichon king of the Amori, 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 Argov, 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 Sichon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every
inhabited city, with the women and the little ones. {3:7} But all the
cattle, 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 Amori who were beyond the Yarden, from the valley of the Arnon
to Mount Hermon; {3:9} ([which] Hermon the Tzidonim call Siryon, and
the Amori call it Senir;) {3:10} all the cities of the plain, and all
Gil`ad, and all Bashan, to Salkhah and Edre`i, cities of the kingdom
of `Og in Bashan. {3:11} (For only `Og king of Bashan remained of the
remnant of the Refa'im; 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
`Aro`er, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the
hill-country of Gil`ad, and the cities of it, gave I to the Re'uveni
and to the Gadi: {3:13} and the rest of Gil`ad, and all Bashan, the
kingdom of `Og, gave I to the half-tribe of Menashsheh; all the region
of Argov, even all Bashan. (The same is called the land of Refa'im.
{3:14} Ya'ir the son of Menashsheh took all the region of Argov, to
the border of the Geshuri and the Ma`akhati, and called them, even
Bashan, after his own name, Havvot-Ya'ir, to this day.) {3:15} I gave
Gil`ad to Makhir. {3:16} To the Re'uveni and to the Gadi I gave from
Gil`ad even to the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and
the border [of it], even to the river Yabbok, which is the border of
the children of `Ammon; {3:17} the `Aravah also, and the Yarden and
the border [of it], from Kinneret even to the sea of the `Aravah, 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 Yisra'el, all the men of valor. {3:19} But your wives, and
your little ones, and your cattle, (I know that you have much cattle,)
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 Yarden: then shall
you return every man to his possession, which I have given you. {3:21}
I commanded Yehoshua 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 [1>]eretz[<1], 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 Yarden, that goodly
mountain, and Levanon. {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 Yarden. {3:28} But charge Yehoshua, 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 Beit-Pe`or.
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Footnotes:
[1] {1:3} commandment
[2] {1:26} commandment
[3] {1:43} commandment
[1] {3:24} earth
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