1:1 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.
1:2 [It is] a journey of eleven days from Choreb to mount Seir as far as
Cades Barne.
1:3 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 Yehovah commanded him for them:
1:4 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;
1:5 beyond Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses began to declare this law,
saying,
1:6 Yehovah your Elohim spoke to us in Choreb, saying, Let it suffice you to
have dwelt [so long] in this mountain.
1:7 Turn ye 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 Canaanites near the sea, and Antilibanus, as far
as the great river, the river Euphrates.
1:8 Behold, [Elohim] has delivered the land before you; go in and inherit the
land, which I sware to your fathers, Abraam, and Isaac, and Jacob, to give
it to them and to their seed after them.
1:9 And I spoke to you at that time, saying, I shall not be able by myself
to bear you.
1:10 Yehovah your Elohim has multiplied you, and, behold, ye are to-day as the
stars of heaven for multitude.
1:11 Yehovah Elohim of your fathers add to you a thousand-old more than you
are, and bless you as he has spoken to you.
1:12 How shall I alone be able to bear your labour, and your burden, and
your gainsayings?
1:13 Take to yourselves wise and understanding and prudent men for your
tribes, and I will set your leaders over you.
1:14 And ye answered me and said, The thing which thou hast told us [is]
good to do.
1:15 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 officers to your judges.
1:16 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
stranger that is with him.
1:17 Thou shalt not have respect to persons in judgment, thou shalt judge
small and great equally; thou shalt not shrink from before the person of a
man, for the judgment is Elohim's; and whatsoever matter shall be too hard for
you, ye shall bring it to me, and I will hear it.
1:18 And I charged upon you at that time all the commands which ye shall
perform.
1:19 And we departed from Choreb, and went through all that great wilderness
and terrible, which ye saw, by the way of the mountain of the Amorite, as
Yehovah our Elohim charged us, and we came as far as Cades Barne.
1:20 And I said to you, Ye have come as far as the mountain of the Amorite,
which Yehovah our Elohim gives to you:
1:21 behold, Yehovah your Elohim has delivered to us the land before you: go
up and inherit it as Yehovah Elohim of your fathers said to you; fear not,
neither be afraid.
1:22 And ye 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.
1:23 And the saying pleased me: and I took of you twelve men, one man of a
tribe.
1:24 And they turned and went up to the mountain, and they came as far as
the valley of the cluster, and surveyed it.
1:25 And they took n their hands of the fruit of the land, and brought it to
you, and said, The land is good which Yehovah our Elohim gives us.
1:26 Yet ye would not go up, but rebelled against the words of Yehovah our
Elohim.
1:27 And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because Yehovah hated us, he
has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hands of the
Amorites, to destroy us.
1:28 Whither 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.
1:29 And I said to you, Fear not, neither be ye afraid of them;
1:30 Yehovah your Elohim 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;
1:31 and in this wilderness which ye saw, by the way of the mountain of the
Amorite; how Yehovah thy Elohim will bear thee as a nursling, as if any man
should nurse his child, through all the way which ye have gone until ye came
to this place.
1:32 And in this matter ye believed not Yehovah our Elohim,
1:33 who goes before you in the way to choose you a place, guiding you in
fire by night, shewing you the way by which ye go, and a cloud by day.
1:34 And Yehovah heard the voice of your words, and being greatly provoked
he sware, saying,
1:35 Not one of these men shall see this good land, which I sware to their
fathers,
1:36 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 attended to
the things of Yehovah.
1:37 And Yehovah was angry with me for your sake, saying, Neither shalt
thou by any means enter therein.
1:38 Joshua the son of Naue, who stands by thee, he shall enter in there; do
thou strengthen him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
1:39 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.
1:40 And ye turned and marched into the wilderness, in the way by the Red
Sea.
1:41 And ye answered and said, We have sinned before Yehovah our Elohim; we
will go up and fight according to all that Yehovah our Elohim has commanded
us: and having taken every one his weapons of war, and being gathered
together, ye went up to the mountain.
1:42 And Yehovah said to me, Tell them, Ye shall not go up, neither shall
ye fight, for I am not with you; thus shall ye not be destroyed before your
enemies.
1:43 And I spoke to you, and ye did not hearken to me; and ye transgressed
the commandment of Yehovah; and ye forced your way and went up into the
mountain.
1:44 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.
1:45 And ye sat down and wept before Yehovah our Elohim, and Yehovah
hearkened not to your voice, neither did he take heed to you.
1:46 And ye dwelt in Cades many days, as many days as ye dwelt [there]. |
1:1 These be the words which Moses spake
unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over
against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and
Dizahab.
1:2 (There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto
Kadeshbarnea.)
1:3 And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the
first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel,
according unto all that Yehovah had given him in commandment unto them;
1:4 After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in
Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei:
1:5 On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this
law, saying,
1:6 Yehovah our Elohim spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long
enough in this mount:
1:7 Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites,
and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in
the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the
Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.
1:8 Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which
Yehovah sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto
them and to their seed after them.
1:9 And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you
myself alone:
1:10 Yehovah your Elohim hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as
the stars of heaven for multitude.
1:11 (Yehovah Elohim of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as
ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)
1:12 How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your
strife?
1:13 Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and
I will make them rulers over you.
1:14 And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good
for us to do.
1:15 So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them
heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and
captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your
tribes.
1:16 And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between
your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and
the stranger that is with him.
1:17 Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small
as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the
judgment is Elohim's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me,
and I will hear it.
1:18 And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do.
1:19 And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and
terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the
Amorites, as Yehovah our Elohim commanded us; and we came to Kadeshbarnea.
1:20 And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites,
which Yehovah our Elohim doth give unto us.
1:21 Behold, Yehovah thy Elohim hath set the land before thee: go up and
possess it, as Yehovah Elohim of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not,
neither be discouraged.
1:22 And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men
before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by
what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.
1:23 And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a
tribe:
1:24 And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley
of Eshcol, and searched it out.
1:25 And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it
down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which
Yehovah our Elohim doth give us.
1:26 Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the
commandment of Yehovah your Elohim:
1:27 And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because Yehovah hated us, he
hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand
of the Amorites, to destroy us.
1:28 Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart,
saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and
walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims
there.
1:29 Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.
1:30 Yehovah your Elohim which goeth before you, he shall fight for you,
according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;
1:31 And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that Yehovah thy Elohim
bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye
came into this place.
1:32 Yet in this thing ye did not believe Yehovah your Elohim,
1:33 Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your
tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what way ye should go, and in a
cloud by day.
1:34 And Yehovah heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware,
saying,
1:35 Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see
that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers.
1:36 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I
give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he
hath wholly followed Yehovah.
1:37 Also Yehovah was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt
not go in thither.
1:38 But Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before thee, he shall go in
thither: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
1:39 Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your
children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they
shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess
it.
1:40 But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by
the way of the Red sea.
1:41 Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against Yehovah, we
will go up and fight, according to all that Yehovah our Elohim commanded us.
And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to go
up into the hill.
1:42 And Yehovah said unto me, Say unto them. Go not up, neither fight; for
I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies.
1:43 So I spake unto you; and ye would not hear, but rebelled against the
commandment of Yehovah, and went presumptuously up into the hill.
1:44 And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain, came out against you,
and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, even unto Hormah.
1:45 And ye returned and wept before Yehovah; but Yehovah would not
hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you.
1:46 So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode
there. |