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Deuteronomy - ch 1 v 1 - 20
- These are the words which Moses said to all Israel on the far side of Jordan, in the waste land in the Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran on the one side, and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab on the other.
- It is eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea.
- Now in the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses gave to the children of Israel all the orders which the Lord had given him for them;
- After he had overcome Sihon, king of the Amorites, ruling in Heshbon, and Og, king of Bashan, ruling in Ashtaroth, at Edrei:
- On the far side of Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses gave the people this law, saying,
- The Lord our God said to us in Horeb, You have been long enough in this mountain:
- Make a move now, and go on your way into the hill-country of the Amorites and the places near it, in the Arabah and the hill-country and in the lowlands and in the South and by the seaside, all the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.
- See, all the land is before you: go in and take for yourselves the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their seed after them.
- At that time I said to you, I am not able to undertake the care of you by myself;
- The Lord your God has given you increase, and now you are like the stars of heaven in number.
- May the Lord, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times greater in number than you are, and give you his blessing as he has said!
- How is it possible for me by myself to be responsible for you, and undertake the weight of all your troubles and your arguments?
- Take for yourselves men who are wise, far-seeing, and respected among you, from your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
- And you made answer and said to me, It is good for us to do as you say.
- So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men and respected, and made them rulers over you, captains of thousands and captains of hundreds and captains of fifties and captains of tens, and overseers of your tribes.
- And at that time I gave orders to your judges, saying, Let all questions between your brothers come before you for hearing, and give decisions uprightly between a man and his brother or one from another nation who is with him.
- In judging, do not let a man's position have any weight with you; give hearing equally to small and great; have no fear of any man, for it is God who is judge: and any cause in which you are not able to give a decision, you are to put before me and I will give it a hearing.
- And at that time I gave you all the orders which you were to do.
- Then we went on from Horeb, through all that great and cruel waste which you saw, on our way to the hill-country of the Amorites, as the Lord gave us orders; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.
- And I said to you, You have come to the hill-country of the Amorites, which the Lord our God is giving us.
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