1 These [are] the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suph between Paran and between Tophel and Laban and Hazeroth and Dizahab. VP
2 [It is] one [and] ten days from Horeb by way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea. VP
3 And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the one [and] tenth month, on the first of the month, [that] Moses spoke to the sons of Israel according to all that YHWH had commanded him concerning them, VP
4 after his striking of Sihon king of the Amorite, who dwelt in Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan, who dwelt at Ashtaroth, in Edrei. VP
5 Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses began to make plain this law, saying: VP
6 YHWH our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying: “You⁺ have dwelt long enough at this mountain. VP
7 Turn and set out for yourselves, and go to the hill country of the Amorite and to all its neighbors in the Arabah, in the hill country, and in the Shephelah, and in the Negev, and on the seacoast—the land of the Canaanite, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the River Euphrates. VP
8 See, I have set before your⁺ faces the land. Go in and possess the land that YHWH swore to your⁺ fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their seed after them.” VP
9 And I spoke to you⁺ at that time, saying, “I am not able by myself to bear you⁺. VP
10 YHWH your⁺ God has multiplied you⁺, and behold, you⁺ [are] today as the stars of the heavens for multitude. VP
11 May YHWH, God of your⁺ fathers, add to you⁺ as a thousand times, and bless you⁺ as He has spoken to you⁺. VP
12 How can I bear by myself your⁺ trouble and your⁺ burden and your⁺ strife? VP
13 Give for yourselves men wise and understanding and known to your⁺ tribes, and I will appoint them as your⁺ heads.” VP
14 And you⁺ answered me and said, “Good [is] the thing that you have told [us] to do.” VP
15 And I took the heads of your⁺ tribes, men wise and known, and I appointed them heads over you⁺—leaders of thousands, and leaders of hundreds, and leaders of fifties, and leaders of tens, and officers for your⁺ tribes. VP
16 And I commanded your⁺ judges at that time, saying, “Listen between your⁺ brothers and you⁺ should judge righteously between a man and between his brother and between his sojourner. VP
17 You⁺ shall not recognize faces in judgment; as the small, as the great, you⁺ shall hear. You⁺ shall not be afraid of the face of a man, for the judgment, it [belongs] to God. And the word that is too hard for you⁺, you⁺ shall bring near to me, and I will hear it.” VP
18 And I commanded you⁺ at that time all the things that you⁺ should do. VP
19 And we set out from Horeb and we went through all that great and fearful wilderness, which you⁺ saw, the way of the hill country of the Amorite, as YHWH our God had commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea, VP
20 and I said to you⁺, “You⁺ have come to the hill country of the Amorite, which YHWH our God is giving to us. VP
21 See, YHWH your God has set before your face the land. Go up, possess [it], as YHWH, God of your fathers, has spoken to you. Do not fear or be discouraged.” VP
22 And all of you⁺ came near to me and said, “Let us send men before us, and let them search out for us the land, and bring back to us word—the way by which we should go up into it, and of the cities into which we shall come.” VP
23 And the word was good in my eyes, and I took from among you⁺ two [and] ten men, one man for the tribe. VP
24 And they turned, and they went up into the hill country, and they came to the Valley of Eshcol and spied it out. VP
25 And they took in their hand from the fruit of the land, and they brought [it] down to us, and they brought back to us word and said, “Good [is] the land that YHWH our God is giving to us.” VP
26 And you⁺ were not willing to go up, and you⁺ rebelled against the mouth of YHWH your⁺ God. VP
27 And you⁺ murmured in your⁺ tents and said, “In YHWH’s hatred of us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to give us into the hand of the Amorite, to destroy us. VP
28 Where [are] we going up? Our brothers have melted our hearts, saying, ‘A people greater and taller than we, cities great and fortified in the heavens, and also we saw the sons of the Anakim there.’” VP
29 And I said to you⁺, “Do not be terrified and do not be afraid of them. VP
30 YHWH your⁺ God, the One going before your⁺ faces—He will fight for you⁺, according to all that He did with you⁺ in Egypt before your⁺ eyes, VP
31 and in the wilderness, where you saw how YHWH your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you⁺ went, until your⁺ coming to this place.” VP
32 And in this thing you⁺ are not believing in YHWH your⁺ God, VP
33 the One going before your⁺ faces in the way, to seek out for you⁺ a place for your⁺ camping—in the fire by night, to show you⁺ the way in which you⁺ should go, and in the cloud by day. VP
34 And YHWH heard the sound of your⁺ words, and He was angry and swore, saying, VP
35 “Surely not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land of which I swore to give to your⁺ fathers— VP
36 except Caleb son of Jephunneh. He shall see it, and to him I am giving the land that he walked in, and to his sons, on account of that he has been fully after YHWH.” VP
37 Also YHWH was angry with me for your⁺ sakes, saying, “Even you shall not go in there. VP
38 Joshua son of Nun who stands before you, he shall go in there; strengthen him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it. VP
39 And your⁺ little ones, whom you⁺ said would be for plunder, and your⁺ sons, who have no knowledge today of good and evil, they shall go in there, and to them I will give it, and they shall possess it. VP
40 And [as for] you⁺, turn and set out for yourselves into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.” VP
41 And you⁺ answered and said to me, “We have sinned against YHWH. We will go up and fight, according to all that YHWH our God commanded us.” And you⁺ had girded on, every man, of his weapons of war, and you⁺ were ready to go up into the mountain. VP
42 And YHWH said to me, “Tell them: Do not go up, nor fight, for I [am] not among you⁺, lest you⁺ be stricken before the faces of your⁺ enemies.” VP
43 And I spoke to you⁺ and you⁺ would not listen, and you⁺ rebelled against the mouth of YHWH and proudly went up into the mountain. VP
44 And the Amorite who dwelt in that mountain came out against you⁺ and chased you⁺ like the bees do, and drove you⁺ back from Seir to Hormah. VP
45 And you⁺ returned and you⁺ wept before the face of YHWH; YHWH would not listen to your⁺ voice, nor give ear to you⁺. VP
46 And you⁺ remained in Kadesh many days, according to the days that you⁺ had dwelt. VP