Deuteronomy:1

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* These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness , in the Arabah opposite Suph , between Paran , and Tophel , and Laban , and Hazeroth , and Di-zahab . * It is eleven days [journey ] from Horeb by the way of mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea . * And it came to pass in the fortieth year , in the eleventh month , on the first day of the month , that Moses spoke to the sons of Israel , according to all that LORD had given him in commandment to them , * after he had smitten Sihon the king of the Amorites , who dwelt in Heshbon , and Og the king of Bashan , who dwelt in Ashtaroth , at Edrei . * Beyond the Jordan , in the land of Moab , Moses began to declare this law , saying , * LORD our God spoke to us in Horeb , saying , Ye have dwelt long enough at this mountain . * Turn , and take your journey , and go to the hill-country of the Amorites , and to all [the places ] near thereto , in the Arabah , in the hill-country , and in the lowland , and in the South , and by the sea-shore , the land of the Canaanit * Behold , I have set the land before you . Go in and possess the land which LORD swore to your fathers , to Abraham , to Isaac , and to Jacob , to give to them and to their seed after them . * And I spoke to you at that time , saying , I am not able to bear you myself alone . * LORD your God has multiplied you , and , behold , ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude . * LORD , the God of your fathers , make you a thousand times as many as ye are , and bless you , as he has promised you ! * How can I myself alone bear your encumbrance , and your burden , and your strife ? * Take for you wise men , and understanding , and known , according to your tribes , and I will make them heads over you . * And ye answered me , and said , The thing which thou have spoken is good to do . * 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 . * And I charged your judges at that time , saying , Hear between your brothers , and judge righteously between a man and his brother , and the sojourner who is with him . * Ye shall not respect persons in judgment . Ye shall hear the small and the great alike . Ye shall not be afraid of the face of man , for the judgment is God 's . And the case that is too hard for you ye shall bring to me , and I will hea * And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do . * And we journeyed from Horeb , and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which ye saw , by the way to the hill-country of the Amorites , as LORD our God commanded us , and we came to Kadesh-barnea . * And I said to you , Ye have come to the hill-country of the Amorites , which LORD our God gives to us . * Behold , LORD thy God has set the land before thee . Go up , take possession , as LORD , the God of thy fathers , has spoken to thee . Fear not , neither be dismayed . * And ye came near to me , all 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 . * And the thing pleased me well . And I took twelve men of you , one man for every tribe . * And they turned and went up into the hill-country , and came to the valley of Eshcol , and spied it out . * And 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 LORD our God gives to us . * Yet ye would not go up , but rebelled against the commandment of LORD your God . * And ye murmured in your tents , and said , Because 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 . * 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 heaven , and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there . * Then I said to you , Dread not , neither be afraid of them . * 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 , * and in the wilderness , where thou have seen how that LORD thy God bore thee , as a man bears his son , in all the way that ye went , until ye came to this place . * Yet in this thing ye did not believe LORD your God , * who went before you in the way , to seek out a place for you to pitch your tents in , in fire by night , to show you by what way ye should go , and in the cloud by day . * And LORD heard the voice of your words , and was angry , and swore , saying , * Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see the good land , which I swore to give to your fathers , * except Caleb the son of Jephunneh . He shall see it , and I will give to him the land that he has trodden upon , and to his sons , because he has wholly followed LORD . * Also LORD was angry with me for your sakes , saying , Thou also shall not go in there . * Joshua the son of Nun , who stands before thee , he shall go in there . Encourage thou him , for he shall cause Israel to inherit it . * Moreover your little ones , who ye said would be a prey , and your sons , who this day have no knowledge of good or evil , they shall go in there , and I will give it to them , and they shall possess it . * But as for you , turn , and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea . * Then ye answered and said to me , We have sinned against LORD , we will go up and fight according to all that LORD our God commanded us . And ye girded on every man his weapons of war , and were forward to go up into the hill-country . * And LORD said to me , Say to them , Do not go up , neither fight , for I am not among you , lest ye be smitten before your enemies . * So I spoke to you , and ye did not hearken , but ye rebelled against the commandment of LORD , and were presumptuous , and went up into the hill-country . * And the Amorites , who dwelt in that hill-country , came out against you , and chased you , as bees do , and beat you down in Seir , even to Hormah . * And ye returned and wept before LORD , but LORD did not hearken to your voice , nor gave ear to you . * So ye abode in Kadesh many days , according to the days that ye abode [there ].

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