Deuteronomy:1

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* These be the words which Moses spoke to all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness , in the plain over against the Red sea , between Paran , and Tophel , and Laban , and Hazeroth , and Dizahab . * (There are eleven days 'journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir to Kadeshbarnea .) * 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 children of Israel , according to all that the LORD had given him in commandment to them ; * After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites , which dwelled in Heshbon , and Og the king of Bashan , which dwelled at Astaroth in Edrei : * On this side Jordan , in the land of Moab , began Moses to declare this law , saying , * The LORD our God spoke to us in Horeb , saying , You have dwelled long enough in this mount : * Turn you , and take your journey , and go to the mount of the Amorites , and to all the places near thereunto , in the plain , in the hills , and in the vale , and in the south , and by the sea side , to the land of the Canaanites , and to Lebanon , to the great river , the river Euphrates . * Behold , I have set the land before you : go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers , Abraham , Isaac , and 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 : * The LORD your God has multiplied you , and , behold , you are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude . * (The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as you are , and bless you , as he has promised you !) * How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance , and your burden , and your strife ? * Take you wise men , and understanding , and known among your tribes , and I will make them rulers over you . * And you answered me , and said , The thing which you have spoken is good for us to do . * So I took the chief of your tribes , wise men , and known , and made them heads over you , captains over thousands , and captains over hundreds , and captains over fifties , and captains over tens , and officers among your tribes . * And I charged your judges at that time , saying , Hear the causes between your brothers , and judge righteously between every man and his brother , and the stranger that is with him . * You shall not respect persons in judgment ; but you shall hear the small as well as the great ; you shall not be afraid of the face of man ; for the judgment is God ': and the cause that is too hard for you , bring it to me , and I will hear it . * And I commanded you at that time all the things which you should do . * And when we departed from Horeb , we went through all that great and terrible wilderness , which you saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites , as the LORD our God commanded us ; and we came to Kadeshbarnea . * And I said to you , You are come to the mountain of the Amorites , which the LORD our God does give to us . * Behold , the LORD your God has set the land before you : go up and possess it , as the LORD God of your fathers has said to you ; fear not , neither be discouraged . * And you came near to me every one of you , and said , We will send men before us , and they shall search us out the land , and bring us word again by what way we must go up , and into what cities we shall come . * And the saying pleased me well : and I took twelve men of you , one of a tribe : * And they turned and went up into the mountain , and came to the valley of Eshcol , and searched 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 the LORD our God does give us . * Notwithstanding you would not go up , but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God : * 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 . * Where shall we go up ? our brothers have discouraged our heart , saying , The people is greater and taller than we ; the cities are great and walled up to heaven ; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there . * Then I said to you , Dread not , neither be afraid of them . * The LORD your God which goes before you , he shall fight for you , according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes ; * 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 into this place . * Yet in this thing you did not believe the LORD your God , * Who went in the way before you , to search you out a place to pitch your tents in , in fire by night , to show you by what way you should go , and in a cloud by day . * And the LORD heard the voice of your words , and was wroth , and swore , saying , * Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land , which I swore to give to your fathers . * 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 . * Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes , saying , You also shall not go in thither . * But Joshua the son of Nun , which stands before you , he shall go in thither : encourage him : for he shall cause Israel to inherit it . * Moreover your little ones , which you said should be a prey , and your children , which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil , they shall go in thither , and to them will I give it , and they shall possess it . * But as for you , turn you , and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea . * 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 . And when you had girded on every man his weapons of war , you were ready to go up into the hill . * And the LORD said to me , Say to them . Go not up , neither fight ; for I am not among you ; lest you be smitten before your enemies . * So I spoke to you ; and you would not hear , but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD , and went presumptuously up into the hill . * And the Amorites , which dwelled in that mountain , came out against you , and chased you , as bees do , and destroyed you in Seir , even to Hormah . * And you returned and wept before the LORD ; but the LORD would not listen to your voice , nor give ear to you . * So you stayed in Kadesh many days , according to the days that you stayed there .

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