Deuteronomy 1
1:1These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel on the other side of the Jordan, in the wilderness towards the west, neighboring the red sea, between Paran Tophel and Laban, and Canyons, and Place Abounding in Gold.
1:2It is a journey eleven days from Horeb by mount Seir unto Kadesh Barnea.
1:3And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, day one of the month, Moses spoke to all the sons of Israel according to all as much as the lord gave charge to him for them,
1:4after the striking of Sihon king of the Amorites, the ones dwelling in Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan, the one dwelling in Astaroth and in Edrei.
1:5On the other side of the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses began to make clear this law, saying,
1:6The lord your God spoke to you in Horeb, saying, Let it be enough for you to dwell in this mountain!
1:7You turn and depart, and enter into the mountain of the Amorites, and to all the ones adjacent to the wilderness, to the mountain, and the plain, and to the south, and the coast land of the Canaanites, and Antilebanon, unto the river of the great Euphrates!
1:8Behold! I have delivered up before you the land. Having entered, inherit the land! which I swore by an oath to your fathers, to Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, to give to them and to their seed after them.
1:9And I said to you in that time, saying, I will not be able alone to bear you,
1:10the lord your God multiplied you. And behold, you are today as the stars of the heaven in multitude.
1:11The lord God of your fathers may he add to you as you are a thousand times more, and bless you in so far as he spoke to you!
1:12How shall I be able alone to bear your toil, and support you, and your disputes?
1:13Appoint to yourselves wise men, and having knowledge, and discerning among your tribes! And I will ordain them over you as your leaders.
1:14And you answered to me, and said, The saying is good which you spoke to do.
1:15And I took from you wise men, and having knowledge, and discerning for your tribes. And I ordained them to take the lead over you -- commanders of thousands, and commanders of hundreds, and commanders of fifties, and commanders of tens, and judicial recorders for your judges.
1:16And I gave charge to your judges in that time, saying, Hold a hearing between your brethren, and judge justly between a man and between his brother, and between the foreigner with him!
1:17You shall not discriminate for a person in a judgment; concerning the small and according to the great you shall judge equally. In no way shall you avoid justice by accepting the person of a man, for the judgment is of God. And the matter which ever might be hard for you, you shall bear it to me, and I shall hear it.
1:18And I gave charge to you at that time all the words which you shall do.
1:19And departing from out of Horeb, we went through all that great and dreadful wilderness, which you beheld by the way of the mountain of the Amorite, in so far as the lord our God gave charge to us; and we came unto Kadesh Barnea.
1:20And I said to you, You came unto the mountain of the Amorite, the one the lord our God gives to you.
1:21Behold! the lord your God has delivered up the land to you before your face. Ascending, you inherit it! in which manner the lord God of your fathers spoke to you. You should not fear nor be timid.
1:22And you all came forward to me, and said, You should send men in front of us, and let them explore the land for us, and let them announce to us an answer for the way through which we shall ascend by it! and the cities into which we shall enter into them.
1:23And the saying was pleasing before me. And I took from you twelve men -- one man according to tribe.
1:24And turning they ascended into the mountain, and came unto Ravine of Cluster, and they spied it.
1:25And they took in their hands of the fruit of the land, and carried it to you, and said, The land is good which the lord our God gives to us.
1:26And you did not want to ascend, but you resisted persuasion against the word of the lord your God.
1:27And you complained in your tents, and said, Because the lord detested us he led us out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites, and to utterly destroy us.
1:28Where do we ascend? And our brethren caused our heart to abstain, saying, It is a great and populous nation, and mightier than we; and great cities, and walled unto the heaven; moreover also we saw sons of giants there.
1:29And I said to you, Do not be alarmed, nor fear from them!
1:30The lord your God, the one going forth before your face, he will join in making war against them with you, according to all as much as he did for you in the land of Egypt,
1:31and in this wilderness which you beheld, how as the lord your God nurtured you, as if any man should nurture his son, according to all the way into which you were gone, until you came unto this place.
1:32And in this word you did not entrust to the lord your God,
1:33who goes forth in front of you in the way, to choose for you a place, guiding you by fire at night, showing to you the way by which you go by it, and with a cloud by day.
1:34And the lord heard the voice of your words, and he being provoked swore by an oath, saying,
1:35Shall any of these wicked men see this good land which I swore by an oath to their fathers, no.
1:36except Caleb son of Jephunneh, this one shall see it; and to this one I shall give the land upon which he mounted, and to his sons, because of joining the things of the lord to himself.
1:37And the lord was enraged at me because of you, saying, Nor should you in any way enter there.
1:38Joshua son of Nun, the one standing beside you, this one shall enter there; you strengthen him! for he shall allot it to Israel and your children, which you said to be for ravaging.
1:39And every new child, whoever does not know today good or bad, this one shall enter there, and to these I shall give it, and to them they shall inherit it.
1:40And you, in turning, encamped in the wilderness, the way near the red sea.
1:41And you answered and said to me, We sinned before the lord our God; we, in ascending, shall wage war according to all as much as the lord our God gave charge to us. And each taking up the items for his warfare, and gathering together, ascended into the mountain.
1:42And the lord said to me, Say to them, You shall not ascend, nor wage war, for I am not with you; and in no way shall you be broken before your enemies.
1:43And I spoke to you, and you did not listen to me, and you violated the word of the lord, and pressing forward you ascended unto the mountain.
1:44And the Amorite dwelling in that mountain came forth to meet you. And they pursued you as do the bees, and pierced you from Seir until Hormah.
1:45And sitting you wept before the lord your God, and the lord did not listen to your voice, nor took heed to you.
1:46And you laid in wait in Kadesh many days, as many days as at some other time you laid in wait.