Deut 1
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These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel on this side Jordan in the desert
towards the west near the Red Sea, between Pharan Tophol, and Lobon, and Aulon, and
the gold works.
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It is a journey of eleven days from Choreb to mount Seir as far as Cades Barne.
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And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day
of the month, Moses spoke to all the children of Israel, according to all things which
the Lord commanded him for them:
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after he had smitten Seon king of the Amorites who dwelt in Esebon, and Og the king
of Basan who dwelt in Astaroth and in Edrain;
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beyond Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses began to declare this law, saying,
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The Lord your God spoke to us in Choreb, saying, Let it suffice you Gr. to dwell to have dwelt so long in this mountain.
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Turn you and depart and enter into the mountain of the Amorites, and go to all that
dwell near about Araba, to the mountain and the plain and to the south, and the land
of the Chananites near the sea, and Antilibanus, as far as the great river, the river
Euphrates.
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Behold, God has delivered the land before you; go in and inherit the land, which I
swore to your fathers, Abraam, and Isaac, and Jacob, to give it to them and to their
seed after them.
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And I spoke to you at that time, saying, I shall not be able by myself to bear you.
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The Lord your God has multiplied you, and, behold, you are to-day as the stars of
heaven for multitude.
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The Lord God of your fathers Or, increase you add to you a thousand-fold more than you are, and bless you as he has spoken
to you.
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How shall I alone be able to bear your labour, and your burden, and your gainsayings?
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Gr. Give Take to yourselves wise and understanding and prudent men for your tribes, and I
will set your leaders over you.
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And you answered me and said, The thing which you have told us is good to do.
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So I took of you wise and understanding and prudent men, and I set them to rule over
you as rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, and rulers of fifties, and rulers
of tens, and Perhaps, recorders: more. lit. instructors in reading and writing officers to your judges.
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And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear causes between your brethren,
and judge rightly between a man and his brother, and the Gr. his stranger stranger that is with him.
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You shall not have respect to Gr. a face persons in judgement, you shall judge Gr. according to small and great small and
great equally; you shall not shrink from before the person of a man, for
the judgement is God’s; and whatever matter shall be too hard for you, you shall bring
it to me, and I will hear it.
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And I charged upon you at that time all the commands which you shall perform.
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And we departed from Choreb, and went through all that great wilderness and terrible,
which you saw, by the way of the mountain of the Amorite, as the Lord our God charged
us, and we came as far as Cades Barne.
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And I said to you, You have come as far as the mountain of the Amorite, which the
Lord our God gives to you:
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behold, the Lord your God has delivered to us the land before you: go up and inherit
it as the Lord God of your fathers said to you; fear not, neither be afraid.
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And you all came to me, and said, Let us send men before us, and let them go up to
the land for us; and let them bring back to us a report of the way by which we shall
go up, and of the cities into which we shall enter.
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And the saying pleased me: and I took of you twelve men, one man of a tribe.
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And they turned and went up to the mountain, and they came as far as the valley of
the cluster, and surveyed it.
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And they took in their hands of the fruit of the land, and brought it to you, and
said, The land is good which the Lord our God gives us.
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Yet you would not go up, but rebelled against the words of the Lord our God.
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And you murmured in your tents, and said, Because the Lord hated us, he has brought
us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites, to destroy
us.
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Where do we go up? and your brethren drew away your heart, saying, It is a great nation
and populous, and mightier than we; and there are cities great and walled up to heaven:
moreover we saw there the sons of the giants.
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And I said to you, Fear not, neither be you afraid of them;
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the Lord your God who goes before your face, he shall fight against them together
with you effectually, according to all that he wrought for you in the land of Egypt;
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and in this wilderness which you saw, by the way of the mountain of the Amorite; See Ac 13:18, and note in the margin of English
Bible on etropoforhsen how the Lord your God will bear you as a nursling, as if any man should nurse his
child, through all the way which you have gone until you came to this place.
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And in this matter you believed not the Lord our God,
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who goes before you in the way to choose you a place, guiding you in fire by night,
shewing you the way by which you go, and a cloud by day.
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And the Lord heard the voice of your words, and being greatly provoked he swore, saying,
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Gr. if one Not one of these men shall see this good land, which I swore to their fathers,
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except Chaleb the son of Jephonne, he shall see it; and to him I will give the land
on which he went up, and to his sons, because he Or, followed closely after the Lord attended to the things of the Lord.
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And the Lord was angry with me for your sake, saying, Neither shall you by any means
enter therein.
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Joshua the son of Naue, who stands by you, he shall enter in there; do you strengthen
him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
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And every young child who this day knows not good or evil, —they shall enter therein,
and to them I will give it, and they shall inherit it.
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And you turned and marched into the wilderness, in the way by the Red Sea.
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And you answered and said, We have sinned before the Lord our God; we will go up and
fight according to all that the Lord our God has commanded us: and having taken every
one his weapons of war, and being gathered together, you Gr. go up went up to the mountain.
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And the Lord said to me, Tell them, You shall not go up, neither shall you fight,
for I am not with you; thus shall you not be destroyed before your enemies.
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And I spoke to you, and you did not hearken to me; and you transgressed the commandment
of the Lord; and you forced your way and went up into the mountain.
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And the Amorite who dwelt in that mountain came out to meet you, and pursued you as
bees do, and wounded you from Seir to Herma.
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And you sat down and wept before the Lord our God, and the Lord hearkened not to your
voice, neither did he take heed to you.
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And you dwelt in Cades many days, as many days as you dwelt there.