Deuteronomy 1:14 You answered me, "What you propose to do is good."

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
You answered me, "What you propose to do is good."

English Standard Version
And you answered me, ‘The thing that you have spoken is good for us to do.’

New American Standard Bible
"You answered me and said, 'The thing which you have said to do is good.'

King James Bible
And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You replied to me, 'What you propose to do is good.'"

International Standard Version
You answered by saying that this plan is a good thing.

American Standard Version
And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then you answered me: The thing is good which thou meanest to do.

Darby Bible Translation
And ye answered me, and said, The thing that thou hast spoken is good for us to do.

Young's Literal Translation
and ye answer me and say, Good is the thing which thou hast spoken -- to do.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 1:13
Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.

Deuteronomy 1:15
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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Matthew Henry's Commentary

1:9-18 Moses reminds the people of the happy constitution of their government, which might make them all safe and easy, if it was not their own fault. He owns the fulfilment of God's promise to Abraham, and prays for the further accomplishment of it. We are not straitened in the power and goodness of God; why should we be straitened in our own faith and hope? Good laws were given to the Israelites, and good men were to see to the execution of them, which showed God's goodness to them, and the care of Moses.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

10. ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude—This was neither an Oriental hyperbole nor a mere empty boast. Abraham was told (Ge 15:5, 6) to look to the stars, and though they "appear" innumerable, yet those seen by the naked eye amount, in reality, to no more than three thousand ten in both hemispheres. The Israelites already far exceeded that number, being at the last census above six hundred thousand [Nu 26:51]. It was a seasonable memento, calculated to animate their faith in the accomplishment of other parts of the divine promise.