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align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../numbers/36.htm" title="Numbers 36">◄</a> Deuteronomy 1 <a href="../deuteronomy/2.htm" title="Deuteronomy 2">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New American Bible Revised Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><section id="ch05001" class="chapter"> <h1 class="bksect">I. <span class="ac">First Address</span></h1> <h1 id="cn05001" class="cn"></h1> <p class="pf"><span class="hemb">Introduction.</span> <span id="v05001001" class="ver">1</span><a id="rfn05001001-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn05001001-1">*</a> These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah, opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab. <span id="v05001002" class="ver">2</span>It is a journey of eleven days from Horeb<a id="rfn05001002-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn05001002-1">*</a> to Kadesh-barnea by way of the highlands of Seir.</p> <p><span id="v05001003" class="ver">3</span>In the fortieth year,<a id="rfn05001003-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn05001003-1">*</a> on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses spoke to the Israelites according to all that the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> had commanded him to speak to them, <span id="v05001004" class="ver">4</span>after he had defeated Sihon, king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon,<a id="ren05001004-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05001004-a">a</a> and Og, king of Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei. <span id="v05001005" class="ver">5</span>Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses undertook to explain this law:</p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Departure from Horeb.</span> <span id="v05001006" class="ver">6</span><a id="rfn05001006-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn05001006-1">*</a> <a id="ren05001006-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05001006-b">b</a> The <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, our God, said to us at Horeb:<a id="rfn05001006-2" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn05001006-2">*</a> You have stayed long enough at this mountain. <span id="v05001007" class="ver">7</span>Leave here and go to the hill country of the Amorites<a id="rfn05001007-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn05001007-1">*</a> and to all the surrounding regions, the Arabah, the mountains, the Shephelah, the Negeb and the seacoast—the land of the Canaanites and the Lebanon as far as the Great River, the Euphrates. <span id="v05001008" class="ver">8</span>See, I have given that land over to you.<a id="ren05001008-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05001008-c">c</a> Go now and possess the land that the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> swore to your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give to them and to their descendants after them.</p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Appointment of Elders.</span> <span id="v05001009" class="ver">9</span><a id="ren05001009-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05001009-d">d</a> At that time I said to you, “I am unable to carry you by myself.<a id="ren05001009-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05001009-e">e</a> <span id="v05001010" class="ver">10</span>The <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, your God, has made you numerous, and now you are as numerous as the stars of the heavens.<a id="ren05001010-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05001010-f">f</a> <span id="v05001011" class="ver">11</span>May the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, the God of your ancestors, increase you a thousand times over, and bless you as he promised! <span id="v05001012" class="ver">12</span>But how can I, by myself, bear the weight, the contentiousness of you? <span id="v05001013" class="ver">13</span>Provide wise, discerning, and reputable persons for each of your tribes, that I may appoint them as your leaders.” <span id="v05001014" class="ver">14</span>You answered me, “What you have proposed is good.” <span id="v05001015" class="ver">15</span>So I took the leaders of your tribes, wise and reputable, and set them as leaders over you, commanders over thousands, over hundreds, over fifties and over tens, and other tribal officers. <span id="v05001016" class="ver">16</span><a id="ren05001016-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05001016-g">g</a> I charged your judges at that time, “Listen to complaints among your relatives, and administer true justice to both parties even if one of them is a resident alien. <span id="v05001017" class="ver">17</span>In rendering judgment, do not consider who a person is; give ear to the lowly and to the great alike, fearing no one, for the judgment is God’s. Any case that is too difficult for you bring to me and I will hear it.” <span id="v05001018" class="ver">18</span>Thus I charged you, at that time, with all the things you were to do.</p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">The Twelve Scouts.</span> <span id="v05001019" class="ver">19</span><a id="ren05001019-h" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05001019-h">h</a> Then we set out from Horeb and journeyed through that whole vast and fearful wilderness that you have seen, in the direction of the hill country of the Amorites, as the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, our God, had commanded; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.<a id="ren05001019-i" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05001019-i">i</a> <span id="v05001020" class="ver">20</span>I said to you, “You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, our God, is giving us. <span id="v05001021" class="ver">21</span>See, the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, your God, has given this land over to you. Go up and take possession of it, as the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, the God of your ancestors, has promised you. Do not fear or be dismayed.” <span id="v05001022" class="ver">22</span>Then all of you approached me and said, “Let us send men ahead to spy out the land for us and report to us on the road we should follow and the cities we will come upon.” <span id="v05001023" class="ver">23</span>Agreeing with the proposal, I took twelve men from your number, one from each tribe. <span id="v05001024" class="ver">24</span>They set out into the hill country as far as the Wadi Eshcol, and explored it. <span id="v05001025" class="ver">25</span>Then, taking along some of the fruit of the land, they brought it down to us and reported, “The land the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, our God, is giving us is good.”</p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Threats of Revolt.</span> <span id="v05001026" class="ver">26</span><a id="ren05001026-j" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05001026-j">j</a> But you refused to go up;<a id="ren05001026-k" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05001026-k">k</a> you defied the command of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, your God. <span id="v05001027" class="ver">27</span>You set to murmuring in your tents, “Out of hatred for us the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> has brought us out of the land of Egypt,<a id="ren05001027-l" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05001027-l">l</a> to deliver us into the power of the Amorites and destroy us. <span id="v05001028" class="ver">28</span>What shall we meet with up there? Our men have made our hearts melt by saying, ‘The people are bigger and taller than we, and their cities are large and fortified to the sky; besides, we saw the Anakim<a id="rfn05001028-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn05001028-1">*</a> there.’ ”<a id="ren05001028-m" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05001028-m">m</a></p> <p><span id="v05001029" class="ver">29</span>But I said to you, “Have no dread or fear of them. <span id="v05001030" class="ver">30</span><a id="ren05001030-n" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05001030-n">n</a> The <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, your God, who goes before you, is the one who will fight for you, just as he acted with you before your very eyes in Egypt, <span id="v05001031" class="ver">31</span>as well as in the wilderness, where you saw how the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, your God, carried you, as one carries his own child, all along your journey until you arrived at this place.” <span id="v05001032" class="ver">32</span>Despite this, you would not trust the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, your God, <span id="v05001033" class="ver">33</span>who journeys before you to find you a place to camp—by night in the fire, and by day in the cloud, to show you the way to go.<a id="ren05001033-o" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05001033-o">o</a> <span id="v05001034" class="ver">34</span>When the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> heard your words, he was angry, and took an oath: <span id="v05001035" class="ver">35</span>Not a single one of this evil generation shall look upon the good land I swore to give to your ancestors, <span id="v05001036" class="ver">36</span>except Caleb,<a id="rfn05001036-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn05001036-1">*</a> son of Jephunneh. He shall see it, for to him and to his descendants I will give the land he trod upon,<a id="ren05001036-p" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05001036-p">p</a> because he has fully followed the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>.</p> <p><span id="v05001037" class="ver">37</span>The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> was angered against me also on your account, and said, You shall not enter there either,<a id="ren05001037-q" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05001037-q">q</a> <span id="v05001038" class="ver">38</span>but Joshua,<a id="ren05001038-r" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05001038-r">r</a> son of Nun, your attendant, shall enter. Encourage him, for he is the one who is to give Israel its possession. <span id="v05001039" class="ver">39</span>Your little ones, who you said would become plunder, and your children, who as yet do not know good from evil—they shall enter there; to them I will give it, and they shall take possession of it. <span id="v05001040" class="ver">40</span>But as for yourselves: turn back and proceed into the wilderness on the Red Sea road.</p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Unsuccessful Invasion.</span> <span id="v05001041" class="ver">41</span><a id="ren05001041-s" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05001041-s">s</a> In reply you said to me, “We have sinned against the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>. We will go up ourselves and fight, just as the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, our God, commanded us.” And each of you girded on his weapons, making light of going up into the hill country. <span id="v05001042" class="ver">42</span>But the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> said to me, Warn them: Do not go up and fight—for I will not be in your midst—lest you be beaten down before your enemies. <span id="v05001043" class="ver">43</span>I gave you this warning but you would not listen. You defied the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>’s command and arrogantly went off into the hill country. <span id="v05001044" class="ver">44</span>Then the Amorites living in that hill country came out against you and put you to flight the way bees do, cutting you down in Seir as far as Hormah. <span id="v05001045" class="ver">45</span>On your return you wept before the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, but the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> did not listen to your voice or give ear to you. <span id="v05001046" class="ver">46</span>That is why you had to stay as long as you did at Kadesh.</p> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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