Deuteronomy:1-2
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These be the words which Moses spake unto 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 .
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There are eleven days '
journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadeshbarnea .)
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And it came to pass in the fortieth year ,
in the eleventh month ,
on the first day of the month ,
that Moses spake unto the children of Israel ,
according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them ;
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After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites ,
which dwelt in Heshbon ,
and Og the king of Bashan ,
which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei :
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On this side Jordan ,
in the land of Moab ,
began Moses to declare this law ,
saying ,
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The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb ,
saying ,
Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount :
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Turn you ,
and take your journey ,
and go to the mount of the Amorites ,
and unto all the places nigh 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 unto Lebanon ,
unto the great river ,
the river Euphrates .
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Behold ,
I have set the land before you :
go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers ,
Abraham ,
Isaac ,
and Jacob ,
to give unto them and to their seed after them .
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And I spake unto you at that time ,
saying ,
I am not able to bear you myself alone :
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The LORD your God hath multiplied you ,
and ,
behold ,
ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude .
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The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are ,
and bless you ,
as he hath promised you !)
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How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance ,
and your burden ,
and your strife ?
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Take you wise men ,
and understanding ,
and known among your tribes ,
and I will make them rulers over you .
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And ye answered me ,
and said ,
The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do .
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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 .
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And I charged your judges at that time ,
saying ,
Hear the causes between your brethren ,
and judge righteously between every man and his brother ,
and the stranger that is with him .
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Ye shall not respect persons in judgment ;
but ye shall hear the small as well as the great ;
ye shall not be afraid of the face of man ;
for the judgment is God '
s :
and the cause that is too hard for you ,
bring it unto me ,
and I will hear it .
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And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do .
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And when we departed from Horeb ,
we went through all that great and terrible wilderness ,
which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites ,
as the LORD our God commanded us ;
and we came to Kadeshbarnea .
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And I said unto you ,
Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites ,
which the LORD our God doth give unto us .
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Behold ,
the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee :
go up and possess it ,
as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said unto thee ;
fear not ,
neither be discouraged .
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And ye came near unto 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 .
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And the saying pleased me well :
and I took twelve men of you ,
one of a tribe :
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And they turned and went up into the mountain ,
and came unto the valley of Eshcol ,
and searched it out .
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And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands ,
and brought it down unto us ,
and brought us word again ,
and said ,
It is a good land which the LORD our God doth give us .
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Notwithstanding ye would not go up ,
but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God :
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And ye murmured in your tents ,
and said ,
Because the LORD hated us ,
he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt ,
to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites ,
to destroy us .
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Whither shall we go up ?
our brethren 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 .
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Then I said unto you ,
Dread not ,
neither be afraid of them .
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The LORD your God which goeth before you ,
he shall fight for you ,
according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes ;
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And in the wilderness ,
where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee ,
as a man doth bear his son ,
in all the way that ye went ,
until ye came into this place .
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Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God ,
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Who went in the way before you ,
to search you out a place to pitch your tents in ,
in fire by night ,
to shew you by what way ye should go ,
and in a cloud by day .
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And the LORD heard the voice of your words ,
and was wroth ,
and sware ,
saying ,
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Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land ,
which I sware to give unto your fathers ,
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Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh ;
he shall see it ,
and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon ,
and to his children ,
because he hath wholly followed the LORD .
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Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes ,
saying ,
Thou also shalt not go in thither .
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But Joshua the son of Nun ,
which standeth before thee ,
he shall go in thither :
encourage him :
for he shall cause Israel to inherit it .
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Moreover your little ones ,
which ye 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 unto them will I give it ,
and they shall possess it .
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But as for you ,
turn you ,
and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea .
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Then ye answered and said unto 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 ye had girded on every man his weapons of war ,
ye were ready to go up into the hill .
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And the LORD said unto me ,
Say unto them ,
Go not up ,
neither fight ;
for I am not among you ;
lest ye be smitten before your enemies .
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So I spake unto you ;
and ye would not hear ,
but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD ,
and went presumptuously up into the hill .
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And the Amorites ,
which dwelt in that mountain ,
came out against you ,
and chased you ,
as bees do ,
and destroyed you in Seir ,
even unto Hormah .
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And ye returned and wept before the LORD ;
but the LORD would not hearken to your voice ,
nor give ear unto you .
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So ye abode in Kadesh many days ,
according unto the days that ye abode there .
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Then we turned ,
and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea ,
as the LORD spake unto me :
and we compassed mount Seir many days .
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And the LORD spake unto me ,
saying ,
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Ye have compassed this mountain long enough :
turn you northward .
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And command thou the people ,
saying ,
Ye are to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau ,
which dwell in Seir ;
and they shall be afraid of you :
take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore :
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Meddle not with them ;
for I will not give you of their land ,
no ,
not so much as a foot breadth ;
because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession .
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Ye shall buy meat of them for money ,
that ye may eat ;
and ye shall also buy water of them for money ,
that ye may drink .
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For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand :
he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness :
these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee ;
thou hast lacked nothing .
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And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau ,
which dwelt in Seir ,
through the way of the plain from Elath ,
and from Eziongaber ,
we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab .
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And the LORD said unto me ,
Distress not the Moabites ,
neither contend with them in battle :
for I will not give thee of their land for a possession ;
because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession .
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The Emims dwelt therein in times past ,
a people great ,
and many ,
and tall ,
as the Anakims ;
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Which also were accounted giants ,
as the Anakims ;
but the Moabites call them Emims .
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The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime ;
but the children of Esau succeeded them ,
when they had destroyed them from before them ,
and dwelt in their stead ;
as Israel did unto the land of his possession ,
which the LORD gave unto them .
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Now rise up ,
said I ,
and get you over the brook Zered .
And we went over the brook Zered .
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And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea ,
until we were come over the brook Zered ,
was thirty and eight years ;
until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host ,
as the LORD sware unto them .
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For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them ,
to destroy them from among the host ,
until they were consumed .
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So it came to pass ,
when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people ,
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That the LORD spake unto me ,
saying ,
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Thou art to pass over through Ar ,
the coast of Moab ,
this day :
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And when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon ,
distress them not ,
nor meddle with them :
for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon any possession ;
because I have given it unto the children of Lot for a possession .
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That also was accounted a land of giants :
giants dwelt therein in old time ;
and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims ;
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A people great ,
and many ,
and tall ,
as the Anakims ;
but the LORD destroyed them before them ;
and they succeeded them ,
and dwelt in their stead :
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As he did to the children of Esau ,
which dwelt in Seir ,
when he destroyed the Horims from before them ;
and they succeeded them ,
and dwelt in their stead even unto this day :
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And the Avims which dwelt in Hazerim ,
even unto Azzah ,
the Caphtorims ,
which came forth out of Caphtor ,
destroyed them ,
and dwelt in their stead .)
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Rise ye up ,
take your journey ,
and pass over the river Arnon :
behold ,
I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite ,
king of Heshbon ,
and his land :
begin to possess it ,
and contend with him in battle .
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This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations that are under the whole heaven ,
who shall hear report of thee ,
and shall tremble ,
and be in anguish because of thee .
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And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace ,
saying ,
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Let me pass through thy land :
I will go along by the high way ,
I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left .
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Thou shalt sell me meat for money ,
that I may eat ;
and give me water for money ,
that I may drink :
only I will pass through on my feet ;
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As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir ,
and the Moabites which dwell in Ar ,
did unto me ;)
until I shall pass over Jordan into the land which the LORD our God giveth us .
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But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him :
for the LORD thy God hardened his spirit ,
and made his heart obstinate ,
that he might deliver him into thy hand ,
as appeareth this day .
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And the LORD said unto me ,
Behold ,
I have begun to give Sihon and his land before thee :
begin to possess ,
that thou mayest inherit his land .
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Then Sihon came out against us ,
he and all his people ,
to fight at Jahaz .
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And the LORD our God delivered him before us ;
and we smote him ,
and his sons ,
and all his people .
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And we took all his cities at that time ,
and utterly destroyed the men ,
and the women ,
and the little ones ,
of every city ,
we left none to remain :
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Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves ,
and the spoil of the cities which we took .
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From Aroer ,
which is by the brink of the river of Arnon ,
and from the city that is by the river ,
even unto Gilead ,
there was not one city too strong for us :
the LORD our God delivered all unto us :
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Only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not ,
nor unto any place of the river Jabbok ,
nor unto the cities in the mountains ,
nor unto whatsoever the LORD our God forbad us .
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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 .
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