men, and set them over you for heads, over thousands, over hundreds, over fifties, and over tens, and officers among your tribes;

And commanded your judges at that time, saying, Interrogate your brethren, and judge rightly between every man and his brother, and the stranger.

No person shall ye regard in judgment, but hear the small as well as the great, and shun no man’s person. For the office of judgment is God’s. But if any matter be too hard for you, let it come unto me, that I may hear it.

So I commanded you at that time all things whatsoever ye should do.

And we departed from Horeb, and went through all the wilderness, which is great and terrible, as ye have seen, by the way of the mount of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us, and came unto Kadeshbarnea.

Then said I unto you: Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God shall give us.

Behold the land before thee, which the LORD thy God hath given thee: go up and possess it, as the LORD thy fathers’ God hath said unto thee. Fear not, nor be dismayed.

Then came ye all unto me, and said, Let us send men before us, and let them search out the land for us, and tell us again by what way we shall go in, and the cities where we shall come in.

And it pleased me well, and I took from among you twelve men, one of every tribe.

And when they departed, and went up into the mountains, and came to the brook Eshcol, they beheld it.

And they took the fruit of the land, and brought it down unto us, and told us again, saying: The land is good, which the LORD our God hath given us.

But ye would not go up, and became disobedient to the mouth of the LORD your God; 27. And they murmured in their tents, saying, The LORD is displeased with us: therefore he brought us up out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to be destroyed.

Whither shall we go up? Our brethren have made our hearts despondent, saying, The people are greater and higher than we; The cities are great, and walled up to heaven; Moreover we have seen the children of Enakim there.

And I said unto you, Be not dismayed, neither be afraid of them.

The LORD your God goeth before you, and will fight for you, as he did with you in Egypt before your eyes.

And in the wilderness, when thou sawest how the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man beareth his son, through all the way wherein ye walked, until ye came unto this place.

But that was nothing to you, that ye believed on the LORD your God, 33. Who went before you to shew you the place where ye should lie down by night in the fire, to shew you the way wherein ye should walk, and by day in the cloud.

And when the LORD heard your cry, he was wroth, and sware, and said: 35. None of this evil generation shall see the good land, which I sware to give unto their fathers, 36. Without Caleb the son of Jephunneh, he shall see it: and unto him will I give the land whereon he hath trodden, and unto his children, because he hath faithfully followed the LORD.

The LORD also was wroth with me for your sakes, and said, Neither shalt thou come in.

But Joshua the son of Nun, which is thy servant, let him come in. Strengthen him: for he shall divide the inheritance unto Israel.

And your children, of whom ye said they would be a spoil, and your sons, which this day know neither good nor evil, let them come in: unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.

And ye shall turn, and go into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.

And ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the LORD; we will go up and fight, as the LORD our God hath commanded us. And ye armed yourselves every man with his armour, and stood by him to go up into the mountains,

Saith the LORD unto me, Tell them that they go not up, neither fight: for I am not among you: lest ye be smitten before your enemies.

When I told you these things, ye hearkened not, and became disobedient to the mouth of the LORD, and were presumptuous, and went up into the mountains.

And the Amorites that dwelt in the mountains went out to meet you, and chased you as bees do, and smote you in Seir unto Horma.

And when ye wept again before the LORD, the LORD would not hear your voice, nor incline his ears unto you.

So ye abode in Kadesh a long time.
(Deuteronomy)
Chapter 2
Of the victory against the Amorites.

Then we turned, and went out into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the LORD said unto me, and compassed mount Seir a long time.

And the LORD said unto me:

Ye have now compassed this mountain enough; turn ye toward the midnight.

And give unto the people, saying, Ye shall pass through the border of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you. But keep yourselves with diligence,

And ye shall not fight against them: for I will not give you a foot of their land: for I have given mount Seir unto the children of Esau for a possession.

Food ye shall buy of them for money, that ye may eat; and water ye shall buy of them for money, that ye may drink.

For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thine hands. He hath taken to heart thy journeying through this great wilderness: and forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee, that thou hast lacked nothing.

And it came to pass, when we had passed through our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in mount Seir, by the way of the plains of Elath and Ezeon-gaber, that we turned, and passed through the way of the wilderness of Moab.

And the LORD said unto me, Thou shalt not offend Moab, neither shalt thou make war against Moab: for I will not give thee any possession of their land; for I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.

The Emim dwelt therein of old: they were a great, strong, and high people, like the Enakim.

They also were accounted giants, as Enakim: and the Moabites also call them Emim.

And the Horites dwelt in Seir in old time: and the children of Esau cast them out, and destroyed them from among them, and dwelt in their stead, as Israel did unto the land of their possession, which the LORD gave them.

Now therefore arise, and pass through the brook Sared. And we passed through.

And the time that we journeyed from Kadesh-barnea, until we came by the river Sared, was thirty and eight years: that all the men of war might die in the camp, as the LORD had sworn unto them.

And the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them out of the camp, until they were consumed.

And when all the men of war were ended, they died among the people, 17. The LORD spake unto min, saying:

Thou shalt pass through the border of Moab this day by Ar;

And thou shalt come near against the children of Ammon. Thou shalt not offend them, neither shalt thou make war against them: for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon to possess it; for I have given it unto the children of Lot to possess it.

It is also esteemed the land of giants, and giants dwelt therein in time past: and the Ammonites call them Shammesumim.

They were a great, strong, and high people, like the Enakims: and the LORD destroyed them from before them, and gave them possession of them, to dwell in their stead, 22. As he did unto Km Esau, which dwell in mount Sein, when he destroyed the Horites from before them, and made them possess them, to dwell in their stead unto this day.

And the Caphtorims went out of Caphtor, and destroyed the Avims that dwelt in Hazerim unto Gaza, and dwelt there in their stead.

Arise, go forth, and pass over the brook that is by Arnon. Behold, I have delivered into thy hand Sihon king of the Amorites at Heshbon, and his land. Begin to take, and fight against him.

This day will I set forth, that all nations under heaven shall fear and be afraid of thee: and when they hear of thee, they shall be afraid and grieved for thy coming.

Then I sent messengers out of the wilderness from the east to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying:

I will pass through thy land, and where the highway goeth, I will go: I will not turn aside to the right hand, nor to the left.

Thou shalt sell me meat for money, that I may eat; and thou shalt give me water for money, that I may drink: but I will go through on foot;

As the children of Esau, which dwell in his land, and the Moabites, which dwell in An, have done unto me; until I come over Jordan into the land which the LORD our God giveth us.

But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass: for the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and hardened his heart, that he might deliver him