Dvarim (Deuteronomy) - Chapter 1

1:1 These are the words which Mosha spoke to all Yisrael beyond the Yordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah over against Suf, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab. 1:2 It is eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea. 1:3 It happened in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Mosha spoke to the B'nai Yisrael, according to all that Mar-Yah had given him in commandment to them; 1:4 after he had struck Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth, at Edrei. 1:5 Beyond the Yordan, in the land of Moab, began Mosha to declare this Torah, saying, 1:6 "Mar-Yah our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying, You have lived long enough in this mountain: 1:7 turn, and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites, and to all the places near there, in the Arabah, in the hill country, and in the lowland, and in the South, and by the seashore, 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 Mar-Yah swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Ya'aqub, to give to them and to their seed after them."

1:9 I spoke to you at that time, saying, "I am not able to bear you myself alone: 1:10 Mar-Yah your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day as the stars of the sky for multitude. 1:11 Mar-Yah, God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are, and bless you, as he has promised you! 1:12 How can I myself alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? 1:13 Take wise men of understanding and well known according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you."

1:14 You answered me, and said, "The thing which you have spoken is good for us to do." 1:15 So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes. 1:16 I commanded your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him. 1:17 You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike; you shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it. 1:18 I commanded you at that time all the things which you should do. 1:19 We travelled from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw, by the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as Mar-Yah our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh Barnea. 1:20 I said to you, "You have come to"You shall not swear a false oath in the name of Mar-Yah your God, for Mar-Yah will not hold him guiltless who swears a false oath in his name. the hill country of the Amorites, which Mar-Yah our God gives to us. 1:21 Behold, Mar-Yah your God has set the land before you: go up, take possession, as Mar-Yah, God of your fathers, has spoken to you; do not be afraid, neither be dismayed."

1:22 You came near to me everyone of you, and said, "Let us send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come."

1:23 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 hill country, and came to the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out. 1:25 They took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down to us, and brought us word again, and said, "It is a good land which Mar-Yah our God gives to us."

1:26 Yet you would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of Mar-Yah your God: 1:27 and you murmured in your tents, and said, "Because Mar-Yah hated us, he has brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. 1:28 Where are we going up? our brothers have made our heart to melt, saying, 'The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to the sky; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.'"

1:29 Then I said to you, "Do not dread, neither be afraid of them. 1:30 Mar-Yah your God who goes before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes, 1:31 and in the wilderness, where you have seen how that Mar-Yah your God bore you, as a man does bear his son, in all the way that you went, until you came to this place."

1:32 Yet in this thing you did not believe Mar-Yah 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 you should go, and in the cloud by day. 1:34 Mar-Yah heard the voice of your words, and was angry, and swore, saying, 1:35 "Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see the good land, which I swore to give to your fathers, 1:36 save Caleb the son of Yephunneh: he shall see it; and to him will I give the land that he has trodden on, and to his children, because he has wholly followed Mar-Yah."

1:37 Also Mar-Yah was angry with me for your sakes, saying, "You also shall not go in there: 1:38 Yoshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall go in there: encourage you him; for he shall cause Yisrael to inherit it. 1:39 Moreover your little ones, whom you said should be a prey, and your children, who this day have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there, and to them will I give it, and they shall possess it. 1:40 But as for you, turn, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Sea of Suf."

1:41 Then you answered and said to me, "We have sinned against Mar-Yah, we will go up and fight, according to all that Mar-Yah our God commanded us." You girded on every man his weapons of war, and were forward to go up into the hill country.

1:42 Mar-Yah said to me, "Tell them, 'Do not go up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest you be struck before your enemies.'"

1:43 So I spoke to you, and you did not listen; but you rebelled against the commandment of Mar-Yah, and were presumptuous, and went up into the hill country. 1:44 The Amorites, who lived in that hill country, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and beat you down in Seir, even to Hormah. 1:45 You returned and wept before Mar-Yah; but Mar-Yah did not listen to your voice, nor gave ear to you. 1:46 So you abode in Kadesh many days, according to the days that you abode there.