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Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 1

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Deuteronomy 1 NASB - New American Standard BibleDeuteronomy 1 NASB - New American Standard Bible

Chapter 1 of Deuteronomy—New American Standard Bible (NASB)

  1. ¶ These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel 1across the Jordan in the wilderness, in the 2Arabah opposite [a]Suph, between Paran and Tophel and Laban and Hazeroth and Dizahab.
  2. It is eleven days’ journey from 3Horeb by the way of Mount 4Seir to 5Kadesh-barnea.
  3. In the 6fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses spoke to the children of Israel, 7according to all that the LORD had commanded him to give to them,
  4. after he had [b]8defeated Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and 9Og the king of Bashan, who lived in 10Ashtaroth [c]and Edrei.
  5. Across the Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses undertook to expound this law, saying,
  6. ¶ “The LORD our God 11spoke to us at Horeb, saying, ‘You have [d]stayed long enough at this mountain.
  7. Turn and set your journey, and go to 12the hill country of the Amorites, and to all their neighbors in the Arabah, in the hill country and in the lowland and in 13the [e]Negev and by the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.
  8. See, I have placed the land before you; go in and possess the land which the LORD 14swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to them and their [f]descendants after them.’
  9. ¶ “I spoke to you at that time, saying, ‘15I am not able to bear the burden of you alone.
  10. The LORD your God has 16multiplied you, and behold, you are this day like the stars of heaven in number.
  11. May the LORD, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand-fold more than you are and bless you, 17just as He has [g]promised you!
  12. How can I alone bear the load and burden of you and your strife?
  13. [h]18Choose wise and discerning and experienced men from your tribes, and I will appoint them as your heads.’
  14. You answered me and said, ‘The thing which you have said to do is good.’
  15. So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and experienced men, and [i]appointed them heads over you, leaders of thousands and [j]of hundreds, [k]of fifties and [l]of tens, and officers for your tribes.
  16. ¶ “Then I charged your judges at that time, saying, ‘Hear the cases between your [m]fellow countrymen, and 19judge righteously between a man and his [n]fellow countryman, or the alien who is with him.
  17. 20You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall 21not fear [o]man, for the judgment is God’s. 22The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.’
  18. 23I commanded you at that time all the things that you should do.
  19. ¶ “Then we set out from 24Horeb, and went through all that 25great and terrible wilderness which you saw on the way to the 26hill country of the Amorites, just as the LORD our God had commanded us; and we came to 27Kadesh-barnea.
  20. I said to you, ‘You have come to the hill country of the Amorites which the LORD our God is about to give us.
  21. See, the LORD your God has placed the land before you; go up, take possession, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has spoken to you. 28Do not fear or be dismayed.’
  22. ¶ “29Then all of you approached me and said, ‘Let us send men before us, that they may search out the land for us, and bring back to us word of the way by which we should go up and the cities which we shall enter.’
  23. The thing pleased me and I took twelve of your men, one man for each tribe.
  24. 30They turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the valley of Eshcol and spied it out.
  25. Then they took some of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us; and they brought us back a report and said, ‘It is a good land which the LORD our God is about to give us.’
  26. ¶ “31Yet you were not willing to go up, but 32rebelled against the [p]command of the LORD your God;
  27. and 33you grumbled in your tents and said, ‘Because the LORD hates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us.
  28. Where can we go up? Our brethren have made our hearts melt, saying, “The people are bigger and taller than we; the cities are large and fortified to heaven. And besides, we saw 34the sons of the Anakim there.”’
  29. Then I said to you, ‘Do not be shocked, nor fear them.
  30. The LORD your God who goes before you will 35Himself fight on your behalf, [q]just as He did for you in Egypt before your eyes,
  31. and in the wilderness where you saw how 36the LORD your God carried you, just as a man carries his son, in all the way which you have walked until you came to this place.’
  32. But [r]37for all this, you did not trust the LORD your God,
  33. 38who goes before you on your way, 39to seek out a place for you to encamp, in fire by night and cloud by day, to show you the way in which you should go.
  34. ¶ “Then the LORD heard the sound of your words, and He was angry and 40took an oath, saying,
  35. ‘41Not one of these men, this evil generation, shall see the good land which I swore to give your fathers,
  36. except Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and 42to him and to his sons I will give the land on which he has set foot, because he has followed the LORD fully.’
  37. 43The LORD was angry with me also on your account, saying, ‘44Not even you shall enter there.
  38. Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, 45he shall enter there; encourage him, for 46he will cause Israel to inherit it.
  39. Moreover, 47your little ones who you said would become a prey, and your sons, who this day have 48no knowledge of good or evil, shall enter there, and I will give it to them and they shall possess it.
  40. But as for you, 49turn around and set out for the wilderness by the way to the [s]Red Sea.’
  41. ¶ “50Then you said to me, ‘We have sinned against the LORD; we will indeed go up and fight, just as the LORD our God commanded us.’ And every man of you girded on his weapons of war, and regarded it as easy to go up into the hill country.
  42. 51And the LORD said to me, ‘Say to them, “Do not go up nor fight, for I am not among you; otherwise you will be [t]defeated before your enemies.”’
  43. So I spoke to you, but you would not listen. Instead 52you rebelled against the [u]command of the LORD, and acted presumptuously and went up into the hill country.
  44. 53The Amorites who [v]lived in that hill country came out against you and chased you 54as bees do, and crushed you from Seir to Hormah.
  45. Then you returned and wept before the LORD; but the 55LORD did not listen to your voice nor give ear to you.
  46. So you remained in 56Kadesh many days, [w]the days that you spent there.

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ Perhaps Red Sea
  2. ^ Lit smitten
  3. ^ So with ancient versions; M.T. omits and
  4. ^ Lit dwelt
  5. ^ I.e. South country
  6. ^ Lit seed
  7. ^ Lit spoken to
  8. ^ Lit Give for yourselves
  9. ^ Lit gave
  10. ^ Lit leaders of
  11. ^ Lit leaders of
  12. ^ Lit leaders of
  13. ^ Lit brothers
  14. ^ Lit brother
  15. ^ Lit because of man
  16. ^ Lit mouth
  17. ^ Lit according to all that
  18. ^ Lit in this matter
  19. ^ Lit Sea of Reeds
  20. ^ Lit smitten
  21. ^ Lit mouth
  22. ^ Lit dwelt
  23. ^ Lit as the days

REFERENCES

  1. ^ De 4:46
  2. ^ De 2:8
  3. ^ Ex 3:1; 17:6
  4. ^ Ge 32:3
  5. ^ Nu 13:26; 32:8; De 9:23
  6. ^ Nu 33:38
  7. ^ De 4:1, 2
  8. ^ Nu 21:21-26; De 2:26-35; Jos 13:10; Ne 9:22
  9. ^ Nu 21:33-35; Jos 13:12
  10. ^ Jos 12:4
  11. ^ Nu 10:11-13
  12. ^ Ge 15:18; De 11:24; Jos 10:40
  13. ^ Ge 12:9
  14. ^ Ge 12:7; 26:3; 28:13; Ex 33:1; Nu 14:23; 32:11; Heb 6:13, 14
  15. ^ Ex 18:18, 24; Nu 11:14
  16. ^ Ge 15:5; 22:17; Ex 32:13; De 7:7; 10:22; 26:5; 28:62
  17. ^ De 1:8, 10
  18. ^ Ex 18:21
  19. ^ De 16:18; Jn 7:24
  20. ^ De 10:17; 16:19; 24:17; 2Ch 19:5, 6; Pr 24:23-26; Ac 10:34; Jm 2:1, 9
  21. ^ Pr 29:25
  22. ^ Ex 18:22, 26
  23. ^ Ex 18:20
  24. ^ De 1:2
  25. ^ De 2:7; 8:15; 32:10; Je 2:6
  26. ^ De 1:7
  27. ^ De 1:2
  28. ^ Jos 1:6, 9
  29. ^ Nu 13:1-3
  30. ^ Nu 13:21-25
  31. ^ Nu 14:1-4
  32. ^ De 9:23
  33. ^ De 9:28; Ps 106:25
  34. ^ Nu 13:28, 33; De 9:2
  35. ^ Ex 14:14; De 3:22; 20:4; Ne 4:20
  36. ^ De 32:10-12; Is 46:3, 4; 63:9; Ho 11:3; Ac 13:18
  37. ^ Nu 14:11; Ps 106:24; Heb 3:19; 4:2; Jd 5
  38. ^ Ex 13:21; Nu 9:15-23; Ne 9:12; Ps 78:14
  39. ^ Nu 10:33
  40. ^ Nu 14:28-30; Heb 3:18
  41. ^ Ps 95:11; 106:26; Eze 20:15; 1Co 10:5; Heb 3:14-19
  42. ^ Nu 14:24; Jos 14:9
  43. ^ Nu 20:12; De 3:26; 4:21
  44. ^ Nu 27:13, 18
  45. ^ Nu 14:30
  46. ^ Nu 34:17; De 3:28; 31:7; Jos 11:23
  47. ^ Nu 14:3, 31
  48. ^ Is 7:15, 16
  49. ^ Nu 14:25
  50. ^ Nu 14:40
  51. ^ Nu 14:41-43
  52. ^ Nu 14:40
  53. ^ Nu 14:45
  54. ^ Ps 118:12
  55. ^ Jb 27:8, 9; Ps 66:18; Jn 9:31
  56. ^ Nu 20:1, 22; De 2:7, 14; Jg 11:17

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Comments

  1. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  2. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  3. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  4. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  5. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  6. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  7. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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