| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel across the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel and Laban and Hazeroth and Dizahab. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2It is eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses spoke to the children of Israel, according to all that the LORD had commanded him to give to them, |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4after he had defeated Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth and Edrei. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Across the Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses undertook to expound this law, saying, |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6"The LORD our God spoke to us at Horeb, saying, 'You have stayed long enough at this mountain. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7'Turn and set your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites, and to all their neighbors in the Arabah, in the hill country and in the lowland and in the Negev and by the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8'See, I have placed the land before you; go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to them and their descendants after them.' |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"I spoke to you at that time, saying, 'I am not able to bear the burden of you alone. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10'The LORD your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day like the stars of heaven in number. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11'May the LORD, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand-fold more than you are and bless you, just as He has promised you! |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12'How can I alone bear the load and burden of you and your strife? |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13'Choose wise and discerning and experienced men from your tribes, and I will appoint them as your heads.' |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14"You answered me and said, 'The thing which you have said to do is good.' |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15"So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and experienced men, and appointed them heads over you, leaders of thousands and of hundreds, of fifties and of tens, and officers for your tribes. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16"Then I charged your judges at that time, saying, 'Hear the cases between your fellow countrymen, and judge righteously between a man and his fellow countryman, or the alien who is with him. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17'You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not fear man, for the judgment is God's. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.' |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18"I commanded you at that time all the things that you should do. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19"Then we set out from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, just as the LORD our God had commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20"I said to you, 'You have come to the hill country of the Amorites which the LORD our God is about to give us. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21'See, the LORD your God has placed the land before you; go up, take possession, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has spoken to you. Do not fear or be dismayed.' |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22"Then all of you approached me and said, 'Let us send men before us, that they may search out the land for us, and bring back to us word of the way by which we should go up and the cities which we shall enter.' |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23"The thing pleased me and I took twelve of your men, one man for each tribe. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24"They turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the valley of Eshcol and spied it out. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25"Then they took some of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us; and they brought us back a report and said, 'It is a good land which the LORD our God is about to give us.' |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26"Yet you were not willing to go up, but rebelled against the command of the LORD your God; |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27and you grumbled in your tents and said, 'Because the LORD hates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28'Where can we go up? Our brethren have made our hearts melt, saying, "The people are bigger and taller than we; the cities are large and fortified to heaven. And besides, we saw the sons of the Anakim there."' |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29"Then I said to you, 'Do not be shocked, nor fear them. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30'The LORD your God who goes before you will Himself fight on your behalf, just as He did for you in Egypt before your eyes, |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31and in the wilderness where you saw how the LORD your God carried you, just as a man carries his son, in all the way which you have walked until you came to this place.' |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32"But for all this, you did not trust the LORD your God, |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33who goes before you on your way, to seek out a place for you to encamp, in fire by night and cloud by day, to show you the way in which you should go. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34"Then the LORD heard the sound of your words, and He was angry and took an oath, saying, |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35'Not one of these men, this evil generation, shall see the good land which I swore to give your fathers, |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36except Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him and to his sons I will give the land on which he has set foot, because he has followed the LORD fully.' |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37"The LORD was angry with me also on your account, saying, 'Not even you shall enter there. |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38'Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall enter there; encourage him, for he will cause Israel to inherit it. |
| 39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39'Moreover, your little ones who you said would become a prey, and your sons, who this day have no knowledge of good or evil, shall enter there, and I will give it to them and they shall possess it. |
| 40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40'But as for you, turn around and set out for the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.' |
| 41[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 41"Then you said to me, 'We have sinned against the LORD; we will indeed go up and fight, just as the LORD our God commanded us.' And every man of you girded on his weapons of war, and regarded it as easy to go up into the hill country. |
| 42[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 42"And the LORD said to me, 'Say to them, "Do not go up nor fight, for I am not among you; otherwise you will be defeated before your enemies."' |
| 43[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 43"So I spoke to you, but you would not listen. Instead you rebelled against the command of the LORD, and acted presumptuously and went up into the hill country. |
| 44[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 44"The Amorites who lived in that hill country came out against you and chased you as bees do, and crushed you from Seir to Hormah. |
| 45[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 45"Then you returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD did not listen to your voice nor give ear to you. |
| 46[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 46"So you remained in Kadesh many days, the days that you spent there. |
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