Deuteronomy · Updated Brenton English Septuagint
Deuteronomy 1 Updated Brenton English Septuagint
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- Same Septuagint text as Brenton, with modernised spelling.
1 These [are] the words which Moses spoke to all Israel on this side Jordan in the desert toward the west near the Red Sea, between Paran Tophel, and Laban, and Aulon, and the gold works.
1 These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suf, between Paran, Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
2 [It is] a journey of eleven days from Horeb to Mount Seir as far as Kadesh-barnea.
2 It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea.
3 And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first [day] of the month, Moses spoke to all the children of Israel, according to all things which the Lord commanded him for them:
3 In the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, Moses spoke to the children of Israel according to all that Yahweh had given him in commandment to them,
4 after he had smitten Sihon king of the Amorites who dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan who dwelt in Ashtaroth and in Edrei;
4 after he had struck Sihon the king of the Amorites who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan who lived in Ashtaroth, at Edrei.
5 beyond Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses began to declare this law, saying,
5 Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses began to declare this law, saying,
6 The Lord your God spoke to us in Horeb, saying, Let it suffice you to have dwelt [so long] in this mountain.
6 “Yahweh our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying, ‘You have lived long enough at this mountain.
7 Turn ye and depart and enter into the mountain of the Amorites, and [go] to all that dwell near about Arabah, to the mountain and the plain and to the south, and the land of the Canaanites near the sea, and Antilebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.
7 Turn, and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites and to all the places near there: in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the lowland, in the South, by the seashore, in the land of the Canaanites, and in Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.
8 Behold, [God] has delivered the land before you; go in and inherit the land, which I swore to your fathers, Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, to give it to them and to their seed after them.
8 Behold, I have set the land before you. Go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers—to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob—to give to them and to their offspring after them.’”
9 And I spoke to you at that time, saying, I shall not be able by myself to bear you.
9 I spoke to you at that time, saying, “I am not able to bear you myself alone.
10 The Lord your God has multiplied you, and, behold, ye are today as the stars of heaven for multitude.
10 Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are today as the stars of the sky for multitude.
11 The Lord God of your fathers add to you a thousandfold more than you are, and bless you as he has spoken to you.
11 May Yahweh, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are and bless you, as he has promised you!
12 How shall I alone be able to bear your labor, and your burden, and your gainsayings?
12 How can I myself alone bear your problems, your burdens, and your strife?
13 Take to yourselves wise and understanding and prudent men for your tribes, and I will set your leaders over you.
13 Take wise men of understanding who are respected among your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.”
14 And ye answered me and said, The thing which thou hast told us [is] good to do.
14 You answered me, and said, “The thing which you have spoken is good to do.”
15 So I took of you wise and understanding and prudent men, and I set them to rule over you as rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, and rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens, and officers to your judges.
15 So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and respected men, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, captains of hundreds, captains of fifties, captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes.
16 And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear [causes] between your brethren, and judge rightly between a man and [his] brother, and the stranger that is with him.
16 I commanded your judges at that time, saying, “Hear cases between your brothers and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him.
17 Thou shalt not have respect to persons in judgment, thou shalt judge small and great equally; thou shalt not shrink from before the person of a man, for the judgment is God’s; and whatsoever matter shall be too hard for you, ye shall bring it to me, and I will hear it.
17 You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.”
18 And I charged upon you at that time all the commands which ye shall perform.
18 I commanded you at that time all the things which you should do.
19 And we departed from Horeb, and went through all that great wilderness and terrible, which ye saw, by the way of the mountain of the Amorite, as the Lord our God charged us, and we came as far as Kadesh-barnea.
19 We traveled from Horeb and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw, by the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as Yahweh our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh Barnea.
20 And I said to you, Ye have come as far as the mountain of the Amorite, which the Lord our God gives to you:
20 I said to you, “You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which Yahweh our God gives to us.
21 behold, the Lord your God has delivered to us the land before you: go up and inherit it as the Lord God of your fathers said to you; fear not, neither be afraid.
21 Behold, Yahweh your God has set the land before you. Go up, take possession, as Yahweh the God of your fathers has spoken to you. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed.”
22 And ye all came to me, and said, Let us send men before us, and let them go up to the land for us; and let them bring back to us a report of the way by which we shall go up, and of the cities into which we shall enter.
22 You came near to me, everyone of you, and said, “Let’s send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring back to us word of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come.”
23 And the saying pleased me: and I took of you twelve men, one man of a tribe.
23 The thing pleased me well. I took twelve of your men, one man for every tribe.
24 And they turned and went up to the mountain, and they came as far as the Valley of the Cluster, and surveyed it.
24 They turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out.
25 And they took in their hands of the fruit of the land, and brought it to you, and said, The land is good which the Lord our God gives us.
25 They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us, and brought us word again, and said, “It is a good land which Yahweh our God gives to us.”
26 Yet ye would not go up, but rebelled against the words of the Lord our God.
26 Yet you wouldn’t go up, but rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God.
27 And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the Lord hated us, he has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites, to destroy us.
27 You murmured in your tents, and said, “Because Yahweh hated us, he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us.
28 Whither do we go up? and your brethren drew away your heart, saying, [It is a] great nation and populous, and mightier than we; and [there are] cities great and walled up to heaven: moreover we saw there the sons of the giants.
28 Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our heart melt, saying, ‘The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to the sky. Moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there!’”
29 And I said to you, Fear not, neither be ye afraid of them;
29 Then I said to you, “Don’t be terrified. Don’t be afraid of them.
30 the Lord your God who goes before your face, he shall fight against them together with you effectually, according to all that he wrought for you in the land of Egypt;
30 Yahweh your God, who goes before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,
31 and in this wilderness which ye saw, by the way of the mountain of the Amorite; how the Lord thy God will bear thee as a nursling, as if any man should nurse his child, through all the way which ye have gone until ye came to this place.
31 and in the wilderness where you have seen how that Yahweh your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went, until you came to this place.”
32 And in this matter ye believed not the Lord our God,
32 Yet in this thing you didn’t believe Yahweh your God,
33 who goes before you in the way to choose you a place, guiding you in fire by night, showing you the way by which ye go, and a cloud by day.
33 who went before you on the way, to seek out a place for you to pitch your tents in: in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in the cloud by day.
34 And the Lord heard the voice of your words, and being greatly provoked he swore, saying,
34 Yahweh heard the voice of your words and was angry, and swore, saying,
35 Not one of these men shall see this good land, which I swore to their fathers,
35 “Surely not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land which I swore to give to your fathers,
36 except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, he shall see it; and to him I will give the land on which he went up, and to his sons, because he attended to the things of the Lord.
36 except Caleb the son of Jephunneh. He shall see it. I will give the land that he has trodden on to him and to his children, because he has wholly followed Yahweh.”
37 And the Lord was angry with me for your sake, saying, Neither shalt thou by any means enter therein.
37 Also Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, saying, “You also shall not go in there.
38 Joshua the son of Nun, who stands by thee, he shall enter in there; do thou strengthen him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
38 Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, shall go in there. Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
39 And every young child who this day knows not good or evil—they shall enter therein, and to them I will give it, and they shall inherit it.
39 Moreover your little ones, whom you said would be captured or killed, your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, shall go in there. I will give it to them, and they shall possess it.
40 And ye turned and marched into the wilderness, in the way by the Red Sea.
40 But as for you, turn, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.”
41 And ye answered and said, We have sinned before the Lord our God; we will go up and fight according to all that the Lord our God has commanded us: and having taken every one his weapons of war, and being gathered together, ye went up to the mountain.
41 Then you answered and said to me, “We have sinned against Yahweh. We will go up and fight, according to all that Yahweh our God commanded us.” Every man of you put on his weapons of war, and presumed to go up into the hill country.
42 And the Lord said to me, Tell them, Ye shall not go up, neither shall ye fight, for I am not with you; thus shall ye not be destroyed before your enemies.
42 Yahweh said to me, “Tell them, ‘Don’t go up and don’t fight; for I am not among you, lest you be struck before your enemies.’”
43 And I spoke to you, and ye did not hearken to me; and ye transgressed the commandment of the Lord; and ye forced your way and went up into the mountain.
43 So I spoke to you, and you didn’t listen; but you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh, and were presumptuous, and went up into the hill country.
44 And the Amorite who dwelt in that mountain came out to meet you, and pursued you as bees do, and wounded you from Seir to Hormah.
44 The Amorites, who lived in that hill country, came out against you and chased you as bees do, and beat you down in Seir, even to Hormah.
45 And ye sat down and wept before the Lord our God, and the Lord hearkened not to your voice, neither did he take heed to you.
45 You returned and wept before Yahweh, but Yahweh didn’t listen to your voice, nor turn his ear to you.
46 And ye dwelt in Kadesh many days, as many days as ye dwelt [there].
46 So you stayed in Kadesh many days, according to the days that you remained.
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Moses
Drawn from the Nile, he led Israel out of Egypt and received God's Law.
Cited in the guide: Exodus 2–Deuteronomy 34
Cross references (43)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 1 Samuel 25:1; Joshua 22:7; Joshua 9:1; Numbers 13:3; Numbers 35:14
- 2 Numbers 32:8; Numbers 13:26; Deuteronomy 9:23; Deuteronomy 2:8; Deuteronomy 2:4
- 3 Numbers 33:38; Deuteronomy 4:1–2; Numbers 20:1
- 4 Numbers 21:21–35; Joshua 12:2–6; Deuteronomy 2:26–3:11; Nehemiah 9:22; Joshua 13:10–12
- 5 Deuteronomy 4:8; Deuteronomy 31:9; Deuteronomy 32:46; Deuteronomy 17:18–19
- 6 Exodus 3:1; Numbers 10:11–13; Exodus 19:1–2; Deuteronomy 5:2; Exodus 17:6
- 7 Deuteronomy 11:24; Joshua 10:40; Amos 2:9; 1 Chronicles 18:3; Joshua 24:15
- 8 Genesis 15:18; Genesis 12:7; Genesis 26:3–4; Genesis 13:14–15; Genesis 17:7–8
- 9 Exodus 18:18; Numbers 11:17; Numbers 11:11–14
- 10 Exodus 32:13; Deuteronomy 10:22; Genesis 22:17; Genesis 15:5; Deuteronomy 28:62
- 11 Psalm 115:14; Genesis 22:17; Numbers 6:27; Genesis 26:4; 2 Samuel 24:3
- 12 2 Corinthians 3:5; Numbers 11:11–15; 2 Corinthians 2:16; Psalm 89:19; Deuteronomy 1:9
- 13 Exodus 18:21; Acts 1:21–23; Numbers 11:16–17; Acts 6:2–6
- 15 Exodus 18:25–26; Deuteronomy 16:18; Ephesians 4:11; 1 Samuel 8:12; 1 Samuel 22:7
- 16 John 7:24; Deuteronomy 16:18–19; Leviticus 24:22; Exodus 23:2–3; Exodus 22:21
- 17 Deuteronomy 16:19; James 2:9; Exodus 18:26; Leviticus 19:15; 2 Chronicles 19:6
- 18 Acts 20:27; Matthew 28:20; Deuteronomy 4:5; Acts 20:20; Deuteronomy 12:28
- 19 Deuteronomy 1:2; Deuteronomy 8:15; Jeremiah 2:6; Deuteronomy 32:10; Numbers 13:26
- 20 Deuteronomy 1:7–8
- 21 Joshua 1:9; Hebrews 13:6; Psalm 46:1; Numbers 14:8–9; Numbers 13:30
- 22 Numbers 13:1–20
- 23 Numbers 13:3–33
- 24 Numbers 13:21–27; Joshua 2:1–2
- 26 Numbers 14:1–4; Psalm 106:24–25; Acts 7:51; Isaiah 63:10
- 27 Deuteronomy 9:28; Psalm 106:25; Numbers 14:3; Exodus 16:8; Matthew 25:24
- 28 Deuteronomy 9:1–2; Numbers 13:28–33; Joshua 11:22; Judges 1:20; Joshua 15:14
- 30 Exodus 14:14; Nehemiah 4:20; Romans 8:37; Romans 8:31; Joshua 10:42
- 31 Isaiah 46:3–4; Acts 13:18; Isaiah 63:9; Deuteronomy 32:10–12; Hosea 11:3–4
- 32 Psalm 106:24; Jude 5; Hebrews 3:18–19; Hebrews 3:12; Psalm 78:22
- 33 Numbers 10:33; Psalm 78:14; Ezekiel 20:6; Numbers 9:15–22; Nehemiah 9:12
- 34 Numbers 14:22–30; Hebrews 3:8–11; Deuteronomy 2:14–15; Ezekiel 20:15; Numbers 32:8–13
- 35 Psalm 95:11
- 36 Numbers 14:24; Joshua 14:6–14; Numbers 32:12; Numbers 26:65; Numbers 13:30
- 37 Deuteronomy 4:21; Numbers 20:12; Deuteronomy 34:4; Psalm 106:32–33; Numbers 27:13–14
- 38 Deuteronomy 3:28; Numbers 14:30; Deuteronomy 31:7–8; Deuteronomy 31:23; 1 Samuel 16:22
- 39 Isaiah 7:15–16; Numbers 14:3; Romans 9:11; Numbers 14:31; Jonah 4:11
- 40 Numbers 14:25
- 41 Numbers 14:39–45; Proverbs 19:3; Numbers 22:34
- 42 Joshua 7:8–13; Numbers 14:41–43; Leviticus 26:17; Isaiah 59:1–2; 1 Samuel 4:2
- 43 Numbers 14:44; Romans 8:7–8; Isaiah 63:10; Acts 7:51
- 44 Psalm 118:12; Numbers 14:45; Numbers 21:3; Isaiah 7:18; Deuteronomy 32:30
- 45 Hebrews 12:17; Psalm 78:34
- 46 Numbers 20:1; Numbers 20:22; Judges 11:16–17; Numbers 14:34; Numbers 14:25
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