Deuteronomy 1:1-21 ▼

1 These [are] the words which Moses has spoken to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain opposite Suph, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Di-Zahab.

2 [It takes] eleven days [to go] from Horeb, the way of Mount Seir, to Kadesh-Barnea.

3 And it comes to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first of the month, Moses has spoken to the sons of Israel according to all that YHWH has commanded him concerning them,

4 after his striking Sihon king of the Amorite who is dwelling in Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan who is dwelling in Ashtaroth in Edrei.

5 Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses has begun to explain this law, saying,

6 “Our God YHWH has spoken to us in Horeb, saying, For you dwell at this mountain long enough;

7 turn and journey for yourselves, and go to the mountain of the Amorite, and to all its neighboring places in the plain, in the hill-country, and in the low country, and in the south, and in the haven of the sea, the land of the Canaanite, and of Lebanon, as far as the great river, the Euphrates River;

8 see, I have set the land before you; go in and possess the land which YHWH has sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their seed after them.

9 And I speak to you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you by myself;

10 your God YHWH has multiplied you, and behold, today you [are] as the stars of the heavens for multitude;

11 YHWH, God of your fathers, is adding to you, as you [are], one thousand times, and blesses you as He has spoken to you.

12 How do I bear your pressure, and your burden, and your strife by myself?

13 Provide wise and understanding men for yourselves that are known to your tribes, and I set them for your heads;

14 and you answer me and say, The thing which you have spoken [is] good to do.

15 And I take the heads of your tribes, wise men that are known, and I appoint them [as] heads over you, princes of thousands, and princes of hundreds, and princes of fifties, and princes of tens, and authorities for your tribes.

16 And I command your judges at that time, saying, Listen between your brothers—then you have judged [in] righteousness between a man, and his brother, and his sojourner;

17 you do not discern faces in judgment; you hear the little as well as the great; you are not afraid of the face of any, for the judgment is God’s, and the thing which is too hard for you, you bring near to me, and I have heard it.

18 And I command you at that time all the things which you do.

19 And we journey from Horeb, and go [through] all that great and fearful wilderness which you have seen, the way of the hill-country of the Amorite, as our God YHWH has commanded us, and we come to Kadesh-Barnea.

20 And I say to you, You have come to the hill-country of the Amorite, which our God YHWH is giving to us;

21 see, your God YHWH has set the land before you; go up, possess, as YHWH, God of your fathers, has spoken to you; do not fear, nor be frightened.