Deuteronomy 1

elleh haddevarim asher dibber mosheh el-kol-yisra'el be'ever hayyarden bammidbar ba'aravah mol suf ben-paran uven-tofel velavan vakhatserot vedi zahav

These are the words that Moses addressed to all Israel on the other side of the Jordan.—Through the wilderness, in the Arabah near Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Di-zahab,

akhad asar yom mekhorev derekh har-se'ir ad qadesh barnea

it is eleven days from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea by the Mount Seir route.—

vayehi be'arba'im shanah be'ashte-asar khodesh be'ekhad lakhodesh dibber mosheh el-bene yisra'el kekhol asher tsivvah Adonai oto alehem

It was in the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, that Moses addressed the Israelites in accordance with the instructions that GOD had given him for them,

akhare hakkoto et sikhon melekh ha'emori asher yoshev bekheshbon ve'et og melekh habbashan asher-yoshev be'ashtarot be'edre'i

after he had defeated Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and King Og of Bashan, who dwelt at Ashtaroth [and] Edrei.

be'ever hayyarden be'erets mo'av ho'il mosheh be'er et-hattorah hazzot lemor

On the other side of the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses undertook to expound this Teaching. He said:

Adonai elohenu dibber elenu bekhorev lemor rav-lakhem shevet bahar hazzeh

The ETERNAL our God spoke to us at Horeb, saying: You have stayed long enough at this mountain.

penu use'u lakhem uvo'u har ha'emori ve'el-kol-shekhenayw ba'aravah vahar uvashefelah uvannegev uvekhof hayyam erets hakkena'ani vehallevanon ad-hannahar haggadol nehar-perat

Start out and make your way to the hill country of the Amorites and to all their neighbors in the Arabah, the hill country, the Shephelah, the Negeb, the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites, and the Lebanon, as far as the Great River, the river Euphrates.

re'eh natatti lifnekhem et-ha'arets bo'u ureshu et-ha'arets asher nishba Adonai la'avotekhem le'avraham leyitskhaq uleya'aqov latet lahem ulezaram akharehem

See, I place the land at your disposal. Go, take possession of the land that GOD swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to assign to them and to their heirs after them.

va'omar alekhem ba'et hahiv lemor lo-ukhal levaddi se'et etkhem

Thereupon I said to you, “I cannot bear the burden of you by myself.

Adonai elohekhem hirbah etkhem vehinnekhem hayyom kekhokheve hashamayim larov

The ETERNAL your God has multiplied you until you are today as numerous as the stars in the sky.—

Adonai elohe avotekhem yosef alekhem kakhem elef pe'amim vivarekh etkhem ka'asher dibber lakhem

May the ETERNAL, the God of your ancestors, increase your numbers a thousandfold, and bless you as promised.—

ekhah essa levaddi torkhakhem umassa'akhem verivekhem

How can I bear unaided the trouble of you, and the burden, and the bickering!

havu lakhem anashim khakhamim unevonim vidu'im leshivtekhem va'asimem berashekhem

Pick from each of your tribes individuals who are wise, discerning, and experienced, and I will appoint them as your heads.”

vatta'anu oti vattomeru tov-haddavar asher-dibbarta la'asot

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

va'eqqakh et-rashe shivtekhem anashim khakhamim vidu'im va'etten otam rashim alekhem sare alafim vesare me'ot vesare khamishim vesare asarot veshoterim leshivtekhem

So I took your tribal leaders, wise and experienced men, and appointed them heads over you: chiefs of thousands, chiefs of hundreds, chiefs of fifties, and chiefs of tens, and officials for your tribes.

va'atsavveh et-shofetekhem ba'et hahiv lemor shamoa ben-akhekhem ushefattem tsedeq ben-ish uven-akhiv uven gero

I charged your magistrates at that time as follows, “Hear out your fellow Israelites, and decide justly between one party and the other—be it a fellow Israelite or a stranger.

lo-takkiru fanim bammishpat kaqqaton kaggadol tishma'un lo taguru mippene-ish ki hammishpat lelohim hu vehaddavar asher yiqsheh mikkem taqrivun elay ushemativ

You shall not be partial in judgment: hear out low and high alike. Fear no one, for judgment is God’s. And any matter that is too difficult for you, you shall bring to me and I will hear it.”

va'atsavveh etkhem ba'et hahiv et kol-haddevarim asher ta'asun

Thus I instructed you, at that time, about the various things that you should do.

vannissa mekhorev vannelekh et kol-hammidbar haggadol vehannora hahu asher re'item derekh har ha'emori ka'asher tsivvah Adonai elohenu otanu vannavo ad qadesh barnea

We set out from Horeb and traveled the great and terrible wilderness that you saw, along the road to the hill country of the Amorites, as the ETERNAL our God had commanded us. When we reached Kadesh-barnea,

va'omar alekhem batem ad-har ha'emori asher-Adonai elohenu noten lanu

I said to you, “You have come to the hill country of the Amorites that the ETERNAL our God is giving to us.

re'eh natan Adonai elohekha lefanekha et-ha'arets aleh resh ka'asher dibber Adonai elohe avotekha lakh al-tira ve'al-tekhat

See, the ETERNAL your God has placed the land at your disposal. Go up, take possession, as the ETERNAL, the God of your fathers, promised you. Fear not and be not dismayed.”

vattiqrevun elay kullekhem vattomeru nishlekhah anashim lefanenu veyakhperu-lanu et-ha'arets veyashivu otanu davar et-hadderekh asher na'aleh-bbah ve'et he'arim asher navo alehen

Then all of you came to me and said, “Let us send agents ahead to reconnoiter the land for us and bring back word on the route we shall follow and the cities we shall come to.”

vayyitav be'enay haddavar va'eqqakh mikkem shenem asar anashim ish ekhad lashavet

I approved of the plan, and so I selected twelve of you, one representative from each tribe.

vayyifnu vayya'alu haharah vayyavo'u ad-nakhal eshkol vayeraggelu otah

They made for the hill country, came to the wadi Eshcol, and spied it out.

vayyiqkhu veyadam mipperi ha'arets vayyoridu elenu vayyashivu otanu davar vayyomeru tovah ha'arets asher-Adonai elohenu noten lanu

They took some of the fruit of the land with them and brought it down to us. And they gave us this report: “It is a good land that the ETERNAL our God is giving to us.”

velo avitem la'alot vattamru et-pi Adonai elohekhem

Yet you refused to go up, and flouted the command of the ETERNAL your God.

vatteragenu ve'oholekhem vattomeru besinat Adonai otanu hotsi'anu me'erets mitsrayim latet otanu beyad ha'emori lehashmidenu

You sulked in your tents and said, “It is out of hatred for us that GOD brought us out of the land of Egypt, to hand us over to the Amorites to wipe us out.

anah anakhnu olim akhenu hemassu et-levavenu lemor am gadol varam mimmennu arim gedolot uvetsurot bashamayim vegam-bene anaqim ra'inu sham

What kind of place are we going to? Our brothers have taken the heart out of us, saying, ‘We saw there a people stronger and taller than we, large cities with walls sky-high, and even Anakites.’”

va'omar alekhem lo-ta'artsun velo-tire'un mehem

I said to you, “Have no dread or fear of them.

Adonai elohekhem haholekh lifnekhem hu yillakhem lakhem kekhol asher asah ittekhem bemitsrayim le'enekhem

None other than the ETERNAL your God, who goes before you, will fight for you—just as [God] did for you in Egypt before your very eyes,

uvammidbar asher ra'ita asher nesa'akha Adonai elohekha ka'asher yissa-ish et-beno bekhol-hadderekh asher halakhtem ad-bo'akhem ad-hammaqom hazzeh

and in the wilderness, where you saw how the ETERNAL your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way that you traveled until you came to this place.

uvaddavar hazzeh enekhem ma'aminim ba-Adonai elohekhem

Yet for all that, you have no faith in the ETERNAL your God,

haholekh lifnekhem badderekh latur lakhem maqom lakhanotekhem ba'esh laylah larotekhem badderekh asher telekhu-vah uve'anan yomam

who goes before you on your journeys—to scout the place where you are to encamp—in fire by night and in cloud by day, in order to guide you on the route you are to follow.”

vayyishma Adonai et-qol divrekhem vayyiqtsof vayyishava lemor

Upon hearing your loud complaint, GOD became angry and vowed:

im-yireh ish ba'anashim ha'elleh haddor hara hazzeh et ha'arets hattovah asher nishbati latet la'avotekhem

Not one of those involved, this evil generation, shall see the good land that I swore to give to your fathers—

zulati kalev ben-yefunneh hu yirennah velo-etten et-ha'arets asher darakh-bah ulevanayw ya'an asher mille akhare Adonai

none except Caleb son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him and his descendants will I give the land on which he set foot, because he remained loyal to GOD.—

gam-bi hitannaf Adonai biglalkhem lemor gam-attah lo-tavo sham

Because of you GOD was incensed with me too, saying: You shall not enter it either.

yehoshua bin-nun ha'omed lefanekha hu yavo shammah oto khazzeq ki-hu yankhilennah et-yisra'el

Joshua son of Nun, who attends you, he shall enter it. Imbue him with strength, for he shall allot it to Israel.—

vetappekhem asher amartem lavaz yihyeh uvenekhem asher lo-yade'u hayyom tov vara hemmah yavo'u shammah velahem ettenennah vehem yirashuha

Moreover, your little ones who you said would be carried off, your children who do not yet know good from bad, they shall enter it; to them will I give it and they shall possess it.

ve'attem penu lakhem use'u hammidbarah derekh yam-suf

As for you, turn about and march into the wilderness by the way of the Sea of Reeds.

vatta'anu vattomeru elay khatanu la-Adonai anakhnu na'aleh venilkhamnu kekhol asher-tsivvanu Adonai elohenu vattakhgeru ish et-kele milkhamto vattahinu la'alot haharah

You replied to me, saying, “We stand guilty before GOD. We will go up now and fight, just as the ETERNAL our God commanded us.” And you each girded yourselves with war gear and recklessly started for the hill country.

vayyomer Adonai elay emor lahem lo ta'alu velo-tillakhamu ki enenni beqirbekhem velo tinnagefu lifne oyevekhem

But GOD said to me, “Warn them: Do not go up and do not fight, since I am not in your midst; else you will be routed by your enemies.”

va'adabber alekhem velo shematem vattamru et-pi Adonai vattazidu vatta'alu haharah

I spoke to you, but you would not listen; you flouted GOD’s command and willfully marched into the hill country.

vayyetse ha'emori hayyoshev bahar hahu liqratkhem vayyirdefu etkhem ka'asher ta'asenah haddevorim vayyakketu etkhem bese'ir ad-khormah

Then the Amorites who lived in those hills came out against you like so many bees and chased you, and they crushed you at Hormah in Seir.

vattashuvu vattivku lifne Adonai velo-shama Adonai beqolekhem velo he'ezin alekhem

Again you wept before GOD; but GOD would not heed your cry or give ear to you.

vatteshevu veqadesh yamim rabbim kayyamim asher yeshavtem

Thus, after you had remained at Kadesh all that long time,