THESE are the words which Mosheh spoke unto all Yashar'el on this side of the Yardan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red Sea, between Pa'ran, and Tophel, and Lavan, and Chatseroth, and Diy Zahav.
(There are eleven days' journey from Chorev by the way of Mount Se'iyr unto Qadesh Barnea.)
And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Mosheh spoke unto the children of Yashar'el, according unto all that Yahuah had given him in commandment unto them;
After he had slain את Ciychon the king of the Emoriym, which dwelt in Cheshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Ashtaroth in Edre'iy:
On this side of the Yardan, in the land of Mo'av, began Mosheh to declare this Torah, saying,
Yahuah Elohaynu spoke unto us in Chorev, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount:
Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the Mount of the Emoriym, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the valley, and in the Negev, and by the sea side, to the land of the Kena`aniym, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Perath.
Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which Yahuah swore unto your fathers, Avraham, Yitschaq, and Ya`aqov, to give unto them and to their seed after them.
And I spoke unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:
Yahuah Elohaykem has multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.
(Yahuah Elohai of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he has promised you!)
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
And ye answered me, and said, The thing which you have spoken is good for us to do.
So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.
And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.
Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is Elohiym's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.
And I commanded you at that time את all the things which ye should do.
And when we departed from Chorev, we went through את all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Emoriym, as Yahuah Elohaynu commanded us; and we came to Qadesh Barnea.
And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Emoriym, which Yahuah Elohaynu gives unto us.
Behold, Yahuah Elohayka has set the land before you: go up and possess it, as Yahuah Elohai of your fathers has said unto you; fear not, neither be discouraged.
And ye came near unto me everyone of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and את into what cities we shall come.
And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:
And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshkol, and searched it out.
And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which Yahuah Elohaynu gives us.
Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of Yahuah Elohayka:
And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because Yahuah hated us, he has brought us forth out of the land of Mitsrayim, to deliver us into the hand of the Emoriym, to destroy us.
Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anaqiym there.
Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.
Yahuah Elohaykem which goes before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Mitsrayim before your eyes;
And in the wilderness, where you have seen how that Yahuah Elohaykem bore you, as a man bears his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.
Yet in this thing ye did not believe Yahuah Elohaykem,
Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day.
And Yahuah heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and swore, saying,
Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that את good land, which I swore to give unto your fathers,
Save Kalev the son of Yephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he has trodden upon, and to his children, because he has wholly followed Yahuah.
Also Yahuah was angry with me for your sakes, saying, You also shall not go in thither.
But Yahusha the son of Nun, which stands before you, he shall go in thither: encourage him: for he shall cause Yashar'el to inherit it.
Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.
Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against Yahuah, we will go up and fight, according to all that Yahuah Elohaynu commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill.
And Yahuah said unto me, Say unto them, Go not up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies.
So I spoke unto you; and ye would not hear, but rebelled against the commandment of Yahuah, and went presumptuously up into the hill.
And the Emoriym, which dwelt in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in Se'iyr, even unto Chormah.
And ye returned and wept before Yahuah; but Yahuah would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you.
So ye abode in Qadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode there.