1   These are the wordes, which Moyses spake to al Israel beyond Iordan, in the champion wildernesse, against the Read sea, betwen Pharan and Thophel and Laban and Haseroth, where there is verie much gold:

2   eleuen daies from Horeb by the way of mount Seir to Cadesbarne.

3   The fourtith yeare, the eleuenth moneth, the first day of the moneth Moyses spake to the children of Israel al thinges that our Lord had commanded him to say vnto them:

4   after that he had stroke Sehon king of the Amorrheites, which dwelt in Hesebon: and Og the king of Basan which abode in Aseroth, and in Edrai,

5   beyond Iordan in the Land of Moab. And Moyses began to expound the law, and to say:

6   The Lord our God spake to vs in Horeb, saying: It is sufficient for you that you haue stayed in this mountaine:

7   returne, and come to the mountaine of the Amorrheites, and to the rest that are next to it champion and hillie and lower places against the South, and beside the shore of the sea, the Land of the Chananeites, and of Libanus vnto the greate riuer Euphrates.

8   Behold (quoth he) I haue deliuered it to you: enter it and possesse it, vpon the which our Lord sware to

Repetition of benefites your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Iacob, that he would geue it to them, and to their seede after them.

9   And I said to you at that time:

10   I alone can not susteyne you: because the Lord your God hath multiplied you, and you are this day as the starres of heauen, verie manie.

11   (The Lord God of your fathers adde to this number manie thousandes, and blesse you as he hath spoken.)

12   I alone am not able to susteyne your businesses, and the charge of you and your quareles.

13   Geue from among you wise and skilful men, and such whose conuersation is approued in your tribes, that I may appoint them your princes.

14   Then you answered me: The thing is good which thou meanest to do.

15   And I tooke of your tribes men wise and noble, and appointed them princes, tribunes, and centurions, and quinquagenarians, and deanes, that might teach you al thinges.

16   And I commanded them, saying: Heare them, and iudge that which is iust: whether he be the same countrie man, or a stranger.

17   There shal be no difference of persons, so shal you heare the litle as the great: neither shal you accept any mans person, because it is the iudgement of God. And if any thing seme hard to you, referre it to me, and I wil heare it.

18   And I commanded al thinges that you ought to do.

19   And departing from Horeb, we passed through the rerrible and huge wildernesse, which you saw, by the way of the mountaine of the Amorrheite, as the Lord our God had commanded vs. And when we were come into Cadesbarne,

20   I said to you: You are come to the mountaine of the Amorrheite, which the Lord our God wil geue to vs.

21   See the Land which the Lord thy God geueth thee: goe vp and possesse it, as the Lord our God hath spoken to thy fathers: feare not, neither dread you any thing.

22   And you came al vnto me, and said: Let vs send men that may view the Land: and may bring vs word what way we shal ascend, and to what cities to goe.

23   And because the saying pleased me, I sent of you twelue men, one of euerie tribe.

24   Who when they had gone, and were ascended into the mountaines, they came as farre as the Valley of cluster: and the Land being viewed,

25   taking of the fruites thereof, to shew the fruitfulnesse, they brought vnto vs, and said: The land is good, which the Lord our God wil geue vs.

26   And you would not goe vp, but being incredulous at the word of the Lord our God,

27   you murmured in your

Repetition of benefites tabernacles, and said: Our Lord hateth vs, and therfore hath brought vs out of the Land of Ægypt, that he might deliuer vs into the hand of the Amorrheite, and destroy vs.

28   Whither shal we goe vp? the messengers haue feared our hart, saying: The multitude is verie great, and taller of stature then we: the cities greate, and fensed euen vnto heauen, the sonnes of the Enacims we haue seene there.

29   And I said to you: ^noteFeare not, neither be ye afrayd of them:

30   Our Lord God, which is your conductour, him self wil fight for you, as he did in Ægypt in the sight of al.

31   And in the wildernesse (thy selfe haste seene) the Lord thy God hath caried thee, as a man is wont to beare his litle sonne, al the way, that you haue walked, vntil you came to this place.

32   And neither so did you beleue the Lord your God,

33   who went before you in the way, and marked out the place, wherein you should pitch your tentes, in the night shewing you the way by fyre, and in the day by the piller of a clowde.

34   And when our Lord had heard the voice of your wordes, being wrath he sware and said:

35   There shal not any of the men of this wicked generation see the good Land, which by oath I promised to your fathers:

36   beside Caleb the sonne of Iephone. For he shal see it, and to him I wil geue the Land, that he hath troden, and to his children, because he hath folowed the Lord.

37   Neither is ^note his indignation against the people to be merueiled at, wheras our Lord being ^note angrie with me also for you, said: Neither shalt thou enter in thither.

38   But Iosue the sonne of Nun thy minister, he shal enter for thee: exhort and strenghen him, and he shal by lotte diuide the Land to Israel.

39   Your litle ones, of whom you said that they should be ledde captiues, and your sonnes that this day know not the difference of good and euil, they shal enter in: and to them I wil geue the Land, and they shal possesse it.

40   But returne you and goe into the wildernesse by the way of the Reddesea.

41   And you answered me: We haue sinned to our Lord: we wil goe vp and fight, as the Lord our God hath commanded. And when you readie armed went vnto the mountaine,

42   our Lord said to me: Say to them: Goe not vp, and fight not, for I am not with you: lest you fal before your enemies.

43   I spake, and you heard not: but resisting the commandement of our Lord, and swelling with pride you went vp into the mountaine.

44   Therfore the

Against whom Israel must fight. Amorrheite that dwelt in the mountaines issuing forth, and coming to meete you, pursewed you, as bees are wont to pursew: and smote you from Seir as farre as Horma.

45   And when returning you wept before our Lord, he heard you not, neither would he condescend to your voice.

46   You abode therfore in Cadesbarne a great time.

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