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go in and take possession of the land that I<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-4901b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their descendants after them.”</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Appointment of Tribal Leaders</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>At that time I said to you, “I am unable by myself to bear you. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God has multiplied you, so that today you are as numerous as the stars of heaven. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>May the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, the God of your ancestors, increase you a thousand times more and bless you, as he has promised you! </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>But how can I bear the heavy burden of your disputes all by myself? </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>Choose for each of your tribes individuals who are wise, discerning, and reputable to be your leaders.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>You answered me, “The plan you have proposed is a good one.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>So I took the leaders of your tribes, wise and reputable individuals, and installed them as leaders over you, commanders of thousands, commanders of hundreds, commanders of fifties, commanders of tens, and officials, throughout your tribes. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>I charged your judges at that time: “Give the members of your community a fair hearing, and judge rightly between one person and another, whether citizen or resident alien. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>You must not be partial in judging: hear out the small and the great alike; you shall not be intimidated by anyone, for the judgment is God’s. Any case that is too hard for you, bring to me, and I will hear it.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>So I charged you at that time with all the things that you should do.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Israel’s Refusal to Enter the Land</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>Then, just as the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> our God had ordered us, we set out from Horeb and went through all that great and terrible wilderness that you saw, on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, until we reached Kadesh-barnea. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>I said to you, “You have reached the hill country of the Amorites, which the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> our God is giving us. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>See, the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God has given the land to you; go up, take possession, as the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, the God of your ancestors, has promised you; do not fear or be dismayed.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>All of you came to me and said, “Let us send men ahead of us to explore the land for us and bring back a report to us regarding the route by which we should go up and the cities we will come to.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>The plan seemed good to me, and I selected twelve of you, one from each tribe. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>They set out and went up into the hill country, and when they reached the Valley of Eshcol they spied it out </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>and gathered some of the land’s produce, which they brought down to us. They brought back a report to us, and said, “It is a good land that the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> our God is giving us.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>But you were unwilling to go up. You rebelled against the command of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>you grumbled in your tents and said, “It is because the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> hates us that he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to hand us over to the Amorites to destroy us. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>Where are we headed? Our kindred have made our hearts melt by reporting, ‘The people are stronger and taller than we; the cities are large and fortified up to heaven! We actually saw there the offspring of the Anakim!’” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">29</span>I said to you, “Have no dread or fear of them. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">30</span>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God, who goes before you, is the one who will fight for you, just as he did for you in Egypt before your very eyes, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">31</span>and in the wilderness, where you saw how the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God carried you, just as one carries a child, all the way that you traveled until you reached this place. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">32</span>But in spite of this, you have no trust in the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">33</span>who goes before you on the way to seek out a place for you to camp, in fire by night, and in the cloud by day, to show you the route you should take.”</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">The Penalty for Israel’s Rebellion</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">34</span>When the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> heard your words, he was wrathful and swore: </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">35</span>“Not one of these—not one of this evil generation—shall see the good land that I swore to give to your ancestors, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">36</span>except Caleb son of Jephunneh. He shall see it, and to him and to his descendants I will give the land on which he set foot, because of his complete fidelity to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">37</span>Even with me the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> was angry on your account, saying, “You also shall not enter there. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">38</span>Joshua son of Nun, your assistant, shall enter there; encourage him, for he is the one who will secure Israel’s possession of it. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">39</span>And as for your little ones, who you thought would become booty, your children, who today do not yet know right from wrong, they shall enter there; to them I will give it, and they shall take possession of it. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">40</span>But as for you, journey back into the wilderness, in the direction of the Red Sea.”<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-4933c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span></span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">41</span>You answered me, “We have sinned against the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>! We are ready to go up and fight, just as the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> our God commanded us.” So all of you strapped on your battle gear, and thought it easy to go up into the hill country. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">42</span>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> said to me, “Say to them, ‘Do not go up and do not fight, for I am not in the midst of you; otherwise you will be defeated by your enemies.’” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">43</span>Although I told you, you would not listen. You rebelled against the command of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> and presumptuously went up into the hill country. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">44</span>The Amorites who lived in that hill country then came out against you and chased you as bees do. They beat you down in Seir as far as Hormah. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">45</span>When you returned and wept before the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> would neither heed your voice nor pay you any attention.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">The Desert Years</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">46</span>After you had stayed at Kadesh as many days as you did, </span> </p><A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Deuteronomy 1:4">Deuteronomy 1:4</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk Syr Vg Compare Josh 12.4: Heb lacks <i>and</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Deuteronomy 1:8">Deuteronomy 1:8</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Sam Gk: MT <i>the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span></i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Deuteronomy 1:40">Deuteronomy 1:40</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>Sea of Reeds</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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