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Deut 1:1

1 These are the words Moses spoke to all Israel in the wilderness east of the Jordan — that is, in the Arabah — opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth and Dizahab.

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(It takes eleven days to go from Horeb to Kadesh Barnea by the Mount Seir road.)

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In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses proclaimed to the Israelites all that the Lord had commanded him concerning them.

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East of the Jordan in the territory of Moab, Moses began to expound this law, saying:

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The Lord our God said to us at Horeb, “You have stayed long enough at this mountain.

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Break camp and advance into the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the mountains, in the western foothills, in the Negev and along the coast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the Euphrates.

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See, I have given you this land. Go in and take possession of the land the Lord swore he would give to your fathers — to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob — and to their descendants after them.”

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9 At that time I said to you, “You are too heavy a burden for me to carry alone.

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You answered me, “What you propose to do is good.”

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So I took the leading men of your tribes, wise and respected men, and appointed them to have authority over you — as commanders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties and of tens and as tribal officials.

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Do not show partiality in judging; hear both small and great alike. Do not be afraid of anyone, for judgment belongs to God. Bring me any case too hard for you, and I will hear it.”

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And at that time I told you everything you were to do.

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Then I said to you, “You have reached the hill country of the Amorites, which the Lord our God is giving us.

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Then all of you came to me and said, “Let us send men ahead to spy out the land for us and bring back a report about the route we are to take and the towns we will come to.”

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The idea seemed good to me; so I selected twelve of you, one man from each tribe.

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They left and went up into the hill country, and came to the Valley of Eshkol and explored it.

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Taking with them some of the fruit of the land, they brought it down to us and reported, “It is a good land that the Lord our God is giving us.”

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26 But you were unwilling to go up; you rebelled against the command of the Lord your God.

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You grumbled in your tents and said, “The Lord hates us; so he brought us out of Egypt to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites to destroy us.

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Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt in fear. They say, ‘The people are stronger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the sky. We even saw the Anakites there.’ ”

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Then I said to you, “Do not be terrified; do not be afraid of them.

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who went ahead of you on your journey, in fire by night and in a cloud by day, to search out places for you to camp and to show you the way you should go.

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“No one from this evil generation shall see the good land I swore to give your ancestors,

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But your assistant, Joshua son of Nun, will enter it. Encourage him, because he will lead Israel to inherit it.

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And the little ones that you said would be taken captive, your children who do not yet know good from bad — they will enter the land. I will give it to them and they will take possession of it.

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But as for you, turn around and set out toward the desert along the route to the Red Sea.”

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Then you replied, “We have sinned against the Lord. We will go up and fight, as the Lord our God commanded us.” So every one of you put on his weapons, thinking it easy to go up into the hill country.

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But the Lord said to me, “Tell them, ‘Do not go up and fight, because I will not be with you. You will be defeated by your enemies.’ ”

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The Amorites who lived in those hills came out against you; they chased you like a swarm of bees and beat you down from Seir all the way to Hormah.

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You came back and wept before the Lord, but he paid no attention to your weeping and turned a deaf ear to you.

Deut 2:1

1 Then we turned back and set out toward the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea, as the Lord had directed me. For a long time we made our way around the hill country of Seir.

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Then the Lord said to me,

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Give the people these orders: ‘You are about to pass through the territory of your relatives the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. They will be afraid of you, but be very careful.

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Do not provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land, not even enough to put your foot on. I have given Esau the hill country of Seir as his own.

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You are to pay them in silver for the food you eat and the water you drink.’ ”

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Then the Lord said to me, “Do not harass the Moabites or provoke them to war, for I will not give you any part of their land. I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as a possession.”

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(The Emites used to live there — a people strong and numerous, and as tall as the Anakites.

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Horites used to live in Seir, but the descendants of Esau drove them out. They destroyed the Horites from before them and settled in their place, just as Israel did in the land the Lord gave them as their possession.)

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Thirty-eight years passed from the time we left Kadesh Barnea until we crossed the Zered Valley. By then, that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the Lord had sworn to them.

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the Lord said to me,

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“Today you are to pass by the region of Moab at Ar.

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When you come to the Ammonites, do not harass them or provoke them to war, for I will not give you possession of any land belonging to the Ammonites. I have given it as a possession to the descendants of Lot.”

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(That too was considered a land of the Rephaites, who used to live there; but the Ammonites called them Zamzummites.

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The Lord had done the same for the descendants of Esau, who lived in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them. They drove them out and have lived in their place to this day.

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24 “Set out now and cross the Arnon Gorge. See, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his country. Begin to take possession of it and engage him in battle.

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This very day I will begin to put the terror and fear of you on all the nations under heaven. They will hear reports of you and will tremble and be in anguish because of you.”

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From the Desert of Kedemoth I sent messengers to Sihon king of Heshbon offering peace and saying,

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“Let us pass through your country. We will stay on the main road; we will not turn aside to the right or to the left.

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Sell us food to eat and water to drink for their price in silver. Only let us pass through on foot —

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But Sihon king of Heshbon refused to let us pass through. For the Lord your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate in order to give him into your hands, as he has now done.

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