Deuteronomy (The Speeches of Moses) - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 171

The Five Books of Moses

DEUTERONOMY.

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16 SPEECH I. Qisiurg nf ibn ®x¤hu¤. Om- Evan-Lxvmc Gon spoke to us

in Homb,saying ;·—Y0u have remained long enough on this mountain. Tum and march, and proceed with all your camps to the highlands of the Amorites, and all their neighbours in the dry lands of the hills, and thence to the plains and desert along the shore of the sea of the land of Canan, and from Lebanon, as far as the great river Frath. Attend! I have opened the country

to you! Go and seize the land which the EVER-L1vxNG promised to give to your fathers,»to Abraham, to Isaac, and to ]acob,—-to give it to them and to their posterity after them. But I told you all at that time, I

myself could not support you alone! And now your EvER—L1v1NG GOD has increased you, and, see l you are to—day like the- stars of the sky in number! And the Evmerxvxue the Gon of your fathers will add to you, beyond this, a thousand times, and will bless you, as He promised.—··-—H0w can I alone bear your troubling? and carry your contentions? Go! Choose for yourselves skilful, clear- sighted, and educated men to control you, and I will appoint them your chiefs. What

you have said is good ; what you have said, do itl I therefore chose as the chiefs of

your tribes, skilful and educated men, and gave them to you as your chiefs; colonels of regiments, and captains of companies, and captains of fifties-, and captains of tens; with magistrates for your tribes. I also ordered your judges at that time saying; ‘ Listen between your brothers,

and decide just judgments between a man and hisbrother, andthe foreigners among you. Do not regard social station in deciding, whether low or high. Listen not in fear of the station of a man; for justice belongs to GOD HXMSELF. But anylmatter that is too diflicult for you, bring to me, and I will hear it.’ I instructed you also at that time as to what things you ought to do. Then we marched from Horeb and

proceeded through all that great and terrible desert, which you saw on the way to the Hills of the Amorites, when our EVER·L1v1NG GOD com- manded us to advance to Kadesh— You are now arrived at the Hills of the Amorites, which our Evan-Lrvmo Gon has given us. Look! your EVER-LXVING Goo has provided the country before you to possess. Go up, seize it as the Ev12n—1.1v11~zo Gon of your fathers commands you,——fear not nor be But all of you approached me, asking to send men before you to examine the country, and to report to you about the road by which you could go up to it; and about the cities that you were to go to. And the request seemed good in my opinion, and I appointed twelve princes,-—·one from each tribe.;-and they turned and went up to the hills, and descended to the vale of Eshkol, and slandered it. But they took into their hands some of the produce of the country and came back to us, and It is a beautiful. country that our EvER· But you were not willing to go up ; and rebelled against the order of your Evan-1.1v1No Gon; and murmured Because the Eva R—uv1No hated us He brought us out of the land of the Mitzeraim, and would give us into the hands of the Amorites to destroy us £—···Alas for our advance! Our brothers have de- pressed our hearts, by saying they are a people finer and taller than us l Their cities are large and fortified up to the skies; and we also saw the sons of Anak there! Be not terri·

tied, nor fear them. Your EvER—L!v— ING GOD Who goes before you, He will iight for you, in the way He did in your sight among the Mitzeraim, and in the desert where you saw how the EvEn—L1v1NG carried you as a woman carries her child, along all the way that you went, until He brought you Euphrates.——F. F. But on that occasion Thi 18 2o 21 22 26 28

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