Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Deuteronomy 1:6-21

6 “Jehovah our God spoke to us in Ho′reb, saying, ‘YOU (insert your personal name) have dwelt long enough in this mountainous region.
7 Turn and set out on YOUR way and go into the mountainous region of the Am′or·ites and to all their neighbors in the Ar′a·bah, the mountainous region and the She·phe′lah and the Neg′eb and the seacoast, the land of the Ca′naan·ites, and Leb′a·non, up to the great river, the river Eu·phra′tes.
8 See, I do put the land before YOU people. Go in and take possession of the land about which Jehovah swore to YOUR fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give it to them and their seed after them.’
9 “And I proceeded to say this to YOU (insert your personal name) at that particular time, ‘I am not able by myself to carry YOU (insert your personal name). 10 Jehovah YOUR God has multiplied YOU (insert your personal name), and here YOU are today like the stars of the heavens for multitude.
11 May Jehovah the God of YOUR forefathers increase YOU (insert your personal name) a thousand times as many as YOU are, and may he bless YOU (insert your personal name) just as he has promised YOU (insert your personal name).
12 How can I carry by myself the burden of YOU and the load of YOU and YOUR quarreling?
13 Get wise and discreet and experienced men of YOUR tribes, that I may set them as heads over YOU.’
14 At that YOU (Jehovah) answered me and said, ‘The thing you have spoken for us to do is good.’
15 So I took the heads of YOUR tribes, men wise and experienced, and put them as heads over YOU (insert your personal name), chiefs of thousands and chiefs of hundreds and chiefs of fifties and chiefs of tens and officers of YOUR tribes.
16 “And I went on to command YOUR judges at that particular time, saying, ‘When having a hearing between YOUR brothers, YOU (insert your personal name) must judge with righteousness between a man and his brother or his alien resident.
17 YOU (insert your personal name) must not be partial in judgment. YOU (insert your personal name) should hear the little one the same as the great one. YOU (insert your personal name) must not become frightened because of a man, for the judgment belongs to God; and the case that is too hard for YOU (insert your personal name), YOU (insert your personal name) should present to me, and I must hear it.’
18 And I proceeded to command YOU (insert your personal name) at that particular time all the things that YOU (insert your personal name) should do.
19 “Then we pulled away from Ho′reb and went marching through all that great and fear-inspiring wilderness, which YOU have seen, by the way of the mountainous region of the Am′or·ites, just as Jehovah our God had commanded us; and we eventually came to Ka′desh-bar′ne·a.
20 I now said to YOU (insert your personal name), ‘YOU (insert your personal name) have come to the mountainous region of the Am′or·ites, which Jehovah our God is giving to us.
21 See, Jehovah your God has abandoned the land to you (insert your personal name). Go up, take possession, just as Jehovah the God of your forefathers has spoken to you (insert your personal name). Do not be afraid, nor be terrified.’

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