Verse 16

Deuteronomy 1:16

World English Bible

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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.

Original Language Text

hebrew

וָ/אֲצַוֶּה֙ אֶת שֹׁ֣פְטֵי/כֶ֔ם בָּ/עֵ֥ת הַ/הִ֖וא לֵ/אמֹ֑ר שָׁמֹ֤עַ בֵּין אֲחֵי/כֶם֙ וּ/שְׁפַטְתֶּ֣ם צֶ֔דֶק בֵּֽין אִ֥ישׁ וּ/בֵין אָחִ֖י/ו וּ/בֵ֥ין גֵּרֽ/וֹ

English Translation

And I will command your judges at that time, saying, "Hear between your brothers and judge righteously between a man and his brother and between his stranger."

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Chapter 1 Context

1 These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arab... Focus ↗

2 It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea. Focus ↗

3 In the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, Moses spoke to the child... Focus ↗

4 after he had struck Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan,... Focus ↗

5 Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses began to declare this law, saying, Focus ↗

6 “Yahweh our God (Elohim) spoke to us in Horeb, saying, ‘You have lived long enough at this mountain.... Focus ↗

7 Turn, and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites, and to all the places near... Focus ↗

8 Behold, I have set the land before you. Go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your father... Focus ↗

9 I spoke to you at that time, saying, “I am not able to bear you myself alone. Focus ↗

10 Yahweh your God (Elohim) has multiplied you, and behold, you are today as the stars of the sky for m... Focus ↗

11 Yahweh, the God (Elohim) of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are, and bless yo... Focus ↗

12 How can I myself alone bear your problems, your burdens, and your strife? Focus ↗

13 Take wise men of understanding and well known according to your tribes, and I will make them heads o... Focus ↗

14 You answered me, and said, “The thing which you have spoken is good to do.” Focus ↗

15 So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains of t... Focus ↗

16 I commanded your judges at that time, saying, “Hear cases between your brothers, and judge righteous...

17 You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall n... Focus ↗

18 I commanded you at that time all the things which you should do. Focus ↗

19 We traveled from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw, by th... Focus ↗

20 I said to you, “You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which Yahweh our God (Elohim) giv... Focus ↗

21 Behold, Yahweh your God (Elohim) has set the land before you. Go up, take possession, as Yahweh, the... Focus ↗

22 You came near to me, everyone of you, and said, “Let us send men before us, that they may search the... Focus ↗

23 The thing pleased me well. I took twelve men of you, one man for every tribe. Focus ↗

24 They turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out. Focus ↗

25 They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down to us, and brought us wo... Focus ↗

26 Yet you wouldn’t go up, but rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God (Elohim). Focus ↗

27 You murmured in your tents, and said, “Because Yahweh hated us, he has brought us out of the land of... Focus ↗

28 Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our heart melt, saying, ‘The people are greater and ta... Focus ↗

29 Then I said to you, “Don’t dread, neither be afraid of them. Focus ↗

30 Yahweh your God (Elohim) who goes before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did fo... Focus ↗

31 and in the wilderness, where you have seen how that Yahweh your God (Elohim) bore you, as a man does... Focus ↗

32 Yet in this thing you didn’t believe Yahweh your God (Elohim), Focus ↗

33 who went before you on the way, to seek out a place for you to pitch your tents in, in fire by night... Focus ↗

34 Yahweh heard the voice of your words, and was angry, and swore, saying, Focus ↗

35 “Surely not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land, which I swore to give... Focus ↗

36 except Caleb the son of Jephunneh. He shall see it. I will give the land that he has trodden on to h... Focus ↗

37 Also Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, saying, “You also shall not go in there. Focus ↗

38 Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, shall go in there. Encourage him, for he shall cause I... Focus ↗

39 Moreover your little ones, whom you said would be captured or killed, and your children, who today h... Focus ↗

40 But as for you, turn, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.” Focus ↗

41 Then you answered and said to me, “We have sinned against Yahweh, we will go up and fight, according... Focus ↗

42 Yahweh said to me, “Tell them, ‘Don’t go up and don’t fight; for I am not among you; lest you be str... Focus ↗

43 So I spoke to you, and you didn’t listen; but you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh, and we... Focus ↗

44 The Amorites, who lived in that hill country, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and... Focus ↗

45 You returned and wept before Yahweh; but Yahweh didn’t listen to your voice, nor turn his ear to you... Focus ↗

46 So you stayed in Kadesh many days, according to the days that you remained. Focus ↗

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Book: Deuteronomy
Chapter: Chapter 1 (46 verses)
Version: World English Bible

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