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> 1:1
THESE ARE the words which Moses spoke unto all Israel beyond the
Jordan; in the wilderness, in the Arabah, over against Suph, between
Paran and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Di-zahab. 1:2 It is
eleven days journey from Horeb unto Kadesh-barnea by the way of mount
Seir. 1:3 And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh
month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spoke unto the
children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in
commandment unto them; 1:4 after he had smitten Sihon the king of the
Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who dwelt
in Ashtaroth, at Edrei; 1:5 beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab,
took Moses upon him to expound this law, saying:
> 1:6 The
LORD our God spoke unto us in Horeb, saying: 'Ye have dwelt long
enough in this mountain; 1:7 turn you, and take your journey, and go
to the hill-country of the Amorites and unto all the places nigh
thereunto, in the Arabah, in the hill-country, and in the Lowland,
and in the South, and by the sea-shore; the land of the Canaanites,
and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates. 1:8
Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land
which the LORD swore unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to
Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.'
> 1:9
And I spoke unto you at that time, saying: 'I am not able to bear you
myself alone; 1:10 the LORD your God hath multiplied you, and,
behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.-- 1:11
The LORD, the God 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 Get you, from each one of your tribes, wise men, and
understanding, and full of knowledge, and I will make them heads 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 heads of your
tribes, wise men, and full of knowledge, and made them heads over
you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of
fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, tribe by tribe. 1:16 And
I charged your judges at that time, saying: 'Hear the causes between
your brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his brother,
and the stranger that is with him. 1:17 Ye shall not respect persons
in judgment; ye shall hear the small and the great alike; ye shall
not be afraid of the face of any man; for the judgment is God's; and
the cause that is too hard for you ye shall bring 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 we journeyed from Horeb, and went
through all that great and dreadful wilderness which ye saw, by the
way to the hill-country of the Amorites, as the LORD our God
commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea. 1:20 And I said unto you:
'Ye are come unto the hill-country of the Amorites, which the LORD
our God giveth unto us. 1:21 Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the
land before thee; go up, take possession, as the LORD, the God of thy
fathers, hath spoken unto thee; fear not, neither be dismayed.' 1:22
And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said: 'Let us send men
before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us back
word of the way by which we must go up, and the cities unto which we
shall come.' 1:23 And the thing pleased me well; and I took twelve
men of you, one man for every tribe; 1:24 and they turned and went up
into the mountains, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and spied 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 back word, and said: 'Good is
the land which the LORD our God giveth unto us.' 1:26 Yet ye would
not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God;
1:27 and ye murmured in your tents, and said: 'Because the LORD 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 are we
going up? our brethren have made our heart to melt, saying: The
people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and
fortified up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the
Anakim there.' 1:29 Then I said unto you: 'Dread not, neither be
afraid of them. 1:30 The LORD your God who 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
the LORD thy God bore thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the
way that ye went, until ye came unto this place. 1:32 Yet in this
thing ye do not believe the LORD your God, 1:33 Who went before you
in the way, to seek you out a place to pitch your tents in: in fire
by night, to show you by what way ye should go, and in the cloud by
day.'
> 1:34 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and
was wroth, and swore, saying: 1:35 'Surely there shall not one of
these men, even this evil generation, see the good land, which I
swore 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 the LORD.' 1:37 Also the LORD was angry with me for your
sakes, saying: Thou also shalt not go in thither; 1:38 Joshua the son
of Nun, who standeth before thee, he shall go in thither; encourage
thou him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it. 1:39 Moreover your
little ones, that ye said should be a prey, and your children, that
this day have no knowledge of good or 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 to the Red Sea.' 1:41 Then ye answered and said unto me: 'We have
sinned against the LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all
that the LORD our God commanded us.' And ye girded on every man his
weapons of war, and deemed it a light thing to go up into the
hill-country. 1:42 And the LORD 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 spoke unto you, and ye hearkened not; but ye
rebelled against the commandment of the LORD, and were presumptuous,
and went up into the hill-country. 1:44 And the Amorites, that dwell
in that hill-country, came out against you, and chased you, as bees
do, and beat you down in Seir, even unto Hormah. 1:45 And ye returned
and wept before the LORD; but the LORD hearkened not to your voice,
nor gave ear unto you. 1:46 So ye abode in Kadesh many days,
according unto the days that ye abode there.
> 2:1
Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way
to the Red Sea, as the LORD spoke unto me; and we compassed mount
Seir many days.
> 2:2 And the LORD spoke unto me, saying: 2:3
'Ye have compassed this mountain long enough; turn you northward. 2:4
And command thou the people, saying: Ye are to pass through the
border of your brethren the children of Esau, that dwell in Seir; and
they will be afraid of you; take ye good heed unto yourselves
therefore; 2:5 contend not with them; for I will not give you of
their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on;
because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession. 2:6 Ye
shall purchase food of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall
also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink. 2:7 For the LORD
thy God hath blessed thee in all the work of thy hand; He hath known
thy walking through this great wilderness; these forty years the LORD
thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.' 2:8 So we
passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, that dwell in Seir,
from the way of the Arabah, from Elath and from Ezion-geber.
>
And we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab. 2:9
And the LORD said unto me: 'Be not at enmity with Moab, neither
contend with them in battle; for I will not give thee of his land for
a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a
possession.-- 2:10 The Emim dwelt therein aforetime, a people great,
and many, and tall, as the Anakim; 2:11 these also are accounted
Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim. 2:12 And in
Seir dwelt the Horites aforetime, but the children of Esau succeeded
them; and they destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their
stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which the LORD
gave unto them.-- 2:13 Now rise up, and get you over the brook
Zered.' And we went over the brook Zered. 2:14 And the days in which
we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered,
were thirty and eight years; until all the generation, even the men
of war, were consumed from the midst of the camp, as the LORD swore
unto them. 2:15 Moreover the hand of the LORD was against them, to
discomfit them from the midst of the camp, until they were consumed.
> 2:16 So it came to pass, when all the men of war were
consumed and dead from among the people, 2:17 that the LORD spoke
unto me saying: 2:18 'Thou art this day to pass over the border of
Moab, even Ar; 2:19 and when thou comest nigh over against the
children of Ammon, harass them not, nor contend with them; for I will
not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon for a possession;
because I have given it unto the children of Lot for a possession.--
2:20 That also is accounted a land of Rephaim: Rephaim dwelt therein
aforetime; but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim, 2:21 a people
great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim; but the LORD destroyed them
before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead; 2:22
as He did for the children of Esau, that dwell in Seir, when He
destroyed the Horites from before them; and they succeeded them, and
dwelt in their stead even unto this day; 2:23 and the Avvim, that
dwelt in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, that came forth out
of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.-- 2:24 Rise ye
up, take your journey, and pass over the valley of Arnon; behold, I
have given into thy hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his
land; begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle. 2:25 This
day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon
the peoples that are under the whole heaven, who, when they hear the
report of thee, shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.'
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2:26 And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto
Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying: 2:27 'Let me pass
through thy land; I will go along by the highway, I will neither turn
unto the right hand nor to the left. 2:28 Thou shalt sell me food for
money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink;
only let me pass through on my feet; 2:29 as the children of Esau
that dwell in Seir, and the Moabites that dwell in Ar, did unto me;
until I shall pass over the Jordan into the land which the LORD our
God giveth us.' 2:30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass
by him; for the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart
obstinate, that He might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this
day.
> 2:31 And the LORD said unto me: 'Behold, I have begun
to deliver up Sihon and his land before thee; begin to possess his
land.' 2:32 Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people,
unto battle at Jahaz. 2:33 And the LORD our God delivered him up
before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people. 2:34
And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every
city, the men, and the women, and the little ones; we left none
remaining; 2:35 only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves,
with the spoil of the cities which we had taken. 2:36 From Aroer,
which is on the edge of the valley of Arnon, and from the city that
is in the valley, even unto Gilead, there was not a city too high for
us: the LORD our God delivered up all before us. 2:37 Only to the
land of the children of Ammon thou camest not near; all the side of
the river Jabbok, and the cities of the hill-country, and wheresoever
the LORD our God forbade us.
> 3:1
Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan; and Og the king of
Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, unto battle at
Edrei. 3:2 And the LORD said unto me: 'Fear him not; for I have
delivered him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and
thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites,
who dwelt at Heshbon.' 3:3 So the LORD our God delivered into our
hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people; and we smote
him until none was left to him remaining. 3:4 And we took all his
cities at that time; there was not a city which we took not from
them; threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og
in Bashan. 3:5 All these were fortified cities, with high walls,
gates, and bars; beside the unwalled towns a great many. 3:6 And we
utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly
destroying every city, the men, and the women, and the little ones.
3:7 But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a
prey unto ourselves.
> 3:8 And we took the land at that time
out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites that were beyond the
Jordan, from the valley of Arnon unto mount Hermon-- 3:9 which Hermon
the Sidonians call Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir-- 3:10 all
the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salcah
and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.-- 3:11 For only Og
king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim; behold, his
bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbah of the children
of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the
breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.-- 3:12 And this land we took
in possession at that time; from Aroer, which is by the valley of
Arnon, and half the hill-country of Gilead, and the cities thereof,
gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites; 3:13 and the rest of
Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half-tribe
of Manasseh; all the region of Argob--all that Bashan is called the
land of Rephaim. 3:14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of
Argob, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and
called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth-jair, unto this
day.-- 3:15 And I gave Gilead unto Machir. 3:16 And unto the
Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from Gilead even unto the
valley of Arnon, the middle of the valley for a border; even unto the
river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon; 3:17 the
Arabah also, the Jordan being the border thereof, from Chinnereth
even unto the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of
Pisgah eastward.
> 3:18 And I commanded you at that time,
saying: 'The LORD your God hath given you this land to possess it; ye
shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel,
all the men of valour. 3:19 But your wives, and your little ones, and
your cattle--I know that ye have much cattle--shall abide in your
cities which I have given you; 3:20 until the LORD give rest unto
your brethren, as unto you, and they also possess the land which the
LORD your God giveth them beyond the Jordan; then shall ye return
every man unto his possession, which I have given you. 3:21 And I
commanded Joshua at that time, saying: 'Thine eyes have seen all that
the LORD your God hath done unto these two kings; so shall the LORD
do unto all the kingdoms whither thou goest over. 3:22 Ye shall not
fear them; for the LORD your God, He it is that fighteth for you.'
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