Deuteronomy 1:1-21 ▼

1 These the words which Moses spake to all Israel on the other side Jordan in the desert, in the sterile region over against the sedge between Paran and between Tophel and Laban and Hazeroth and Dizahab.

2 Eleven days from Horeb the way of mount Seir to Kadesh-Barnea.

3 And it shall be in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, in one to the Month, Moses spake to the sons of Israel according to all which Jehovah commanded him to them.

4 After his smiting Sihon, king of the Amorites, who will dwell in Heshbon, and Og, king of Bashan, who will dwell in Ashtaroth in Edrei:

5 In the other side Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses was first to declare this law, saying,

6 Jehovah our God spake to us in Horeb, saying, It was enough to you to dwell in this mount:

7 Turn ye and remove for yourselves, and go to the mountain of the Amorite, and to all his neighbors in the sterile region, in the mountain, and in the low country, and in the south and in the coast of the sea, the land of the Canaanites and of Lebanon to the great river, the river Phrath.

8 See, I gave the land before you: go in and possess the land which Jehovah sware to your fathers, to Abraham to Isaak and to Jacob, to give to them and to their seed after them.

9 And I spake to you at that time, saying, I shall not be able alone to bear you:

10 Jehovah your God multiplied you, and behold, you this day as the stars of the heavens for multitude.

11 Jehovah the God of your fathers will add to you as ye a thousand times, and he will bless you as he spake to you.

12 How shall I bear alone your burden and your lifting up and your strife.

13 Give to yourselves men wise and known to your tribes, and I will set them for your heads.

14 And ye will answer me and say, Good the word which thou spakest to do.

15 And I will take the heads of your tribes, men wise and known, and I will give them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains and hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and scribes for your tribes.

16 And I shall command your judges in that time, saying, Hear between your brethren, and judge justice between a man and between his brother and between his stranger.

17 Ye shall not look upon faces in judgment; as the small so the great shall ye hear; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is to God; and the word which shall be hard for you, ye shall bring to me and I heard it.

18 And I will command you in that time all the words which ye shall do.

19 And we shall remove from Horeb and we shall go all that great and fearful desert which ye saw, the way of the mountain of the Amorite, as Jehovah our God commanded us; and we shall come to Kadesh-Barnea.

20 And I said to you, Ye came to the mountain of the Amorite which Jehovah our God gave to us.

21 See, Jehovah thy God gave the land before thee: go up, possess, as Jehovah the God of thy fathers spake to thee; thou shalt not fear and thou shalt not be pressed down.