Liber Deuteronomii

Deuteronomii, chapter 1, Vulgate and King James Version

Chapter 1 Vulgate

   1 Haec sunt verba, quae locutus est Moyses ad omnem Israel trans Iordanem in solitudine, in Araba contra Suph, inter Pharan et Thophel et Laban et Aseroth et Dizahab.
   2 Undecim dies de Horeb per viam montis Seir usque Cadesbarne.
   3 Quadragesimo anno, undecimo mense, prima die mensis locutus est Moyses ad filios Israel omnia, quae praeceperat illi Dominus ut diceret eis.
   4 Postquam percussit Sehon regem Amorraeorum, qui habitavit in Hesebon, et Og regem Basan, qui mansit in Astharoth et in Edrai,
   5 trans Iordanem in terra Moab coepitque Moyses explanare legem hanc et dicere:
   6 "Dominus Deus noster locutus est ad nos in Horeb dicens: "Sufficit vobis quod in hoc monte mansistis;
   7 convertimini et proficiscimini et venite ad montem Amorraeorum et ad omnes vicinos eius: in Araba atque montanis et in Sephela et in Nageb et iuxta litus maris, in terram Chananaeorum et in Libanum usque ad flumen magnum Euphraten.
   8 En, inquit, tradidi vobis terram: ingredimini et possidete eam, super qua iuravit Dominus patribus vestris, Abraham, Isaac et Iacob, ut daret illam eis et semini eorum post eos"
   9 Dixique vobis illo in tempore: Non possum solus sustinere vos;
   10 Dominus Deus vester multiplicavit vos, et estis hodie sicut stellae caeli plurimi.
   11 Dominus, Deus patrum vestrorum, addat ad hunc numerum multa milia et benedicat vobis, sicut locutus est vobis.
   12 Non valeo solus vestra negotia sustinere et pondus ac iurgia;
   13 date vobis viros sapientes et gnaros, et quorum conversatio sit probata in tribubus vestris, ut ponam eos vobis principes.
   14 Tunc respondistis mihi: "Bona res est, quam vis facere"
   15 Tulique principes de tribubus vestris viros sapientes et probatos et constitui eos principes super vos: tribunos et centuriones et quinquagenarios ac decanos et praefectos operum pro tribubus vestris.
   16 Praecepique iudicibus vestris in tempore illo: Audite causam fratrum vestrorum et, quod iustum est, iudicate, sive civis sit ille sive peregrinus.
   17 Non accipietis personam in iudicio; ita parvum audietis ut magnum nec timebitis cuiusquam personam, quia Dei iudicium est. Quod si difficile vobis aliquid visum fuerit, referte ad me, et ego audiam.
   18 Praecepique vobis in tempore illo omnia, quae facere deberetis.
   19 Profecti autem de Horeb transivimus per totam illam eremum maximam et terribilem, quam vidistis, per viam montis Amorraei, sicut praeceperat Dominus Deus noster nobis. Cumque venissemus in Cadesbarne,
   20 dixi vobis: Venistis ad montem Amorraei, quem Dominus Deus noster daturus est nobis.
   21 Vide terram, quam Dominus Deus tuus dat tibi: ascende et posside eam, sicut locutus est tibi Dominus, Deus patrum tuorum; noli metuere nec quidquam paveas.
   22 Et accessistis ad me vos omnes atque dixistis: "Mittamus viros ante nos, qui considerent terram et renuntient de itinere, per quod debeamus ascendere, et de civitatibus, ad quas pergere"
   23 Cumque mihi sermo placuisset, misi ex vobis duodecim viros singulos de tribubus suis.
   24 Qui cum perrexissent et ascendissent in montana, venerunt usque ad Nehelescol et, considerata terra,
   25 sumentes de fructibus eius attulerunt ad nos atque dixerunt: "Bona est terra, quam Dominus Deus noster daturus est nobis"
   26 Et noluistis ascendere, sed increduli ad sermonem Domini Dei vestri
   27 murmurastis in tabernaculis vestris atque dixistis: "Odit nos Dominus et idcirco eduxit nos de terra Aegypti, ut traderet nos in manu Amorraei atque deleret.
   28 Quo ascendemus? Fratres nostri terruerunt cor nostrum dicentes: Maxima multitudo est et nobis in statura procerior; urbes magnae et ad caelum usque munitae; etiam filios Enacim vidimus ibi"
   29 Et dixi vobis: Nolite metuere nec timeatis eos.
   30 Dominus Deus, qui ductor est vester, ipse pro vobis pugnabit, sicut fecit in Aegypto, vobis videntibus.
   31 Et in solitudine "ipse vidisti "portavit te Dominus Deus tuus, ut solet homo gestare parvulum filium suum, in omni via, per quam ambulastis, donec veniretis ad locum istum.
   32 Et nec sic quidem credidistis Domino Deo vestro,
   33 qui praecessit vos in via, et metatus est locum, in quo tentoria figere deberetis, nocte ostendens vobis iter per ignem et die per columnam nubis.
   34 Cumque audisset Dominus vocem sermonum vestrorum, iratus iuravit et ait:
   35 "Non videbit quispiam de viris generationis huius pessimae terram bonam, quam sub iuramento pollicitus sum patribus vestris,
   36 praeter Chaleb filium Iephonne: ipse enim videbit eam, et ipsi dabo terram, quam calcavit, et filiis eius, quia adimplevit ut sequeretur Dominum"
   37 Mihi quoque iratus Dominus propter vos dixit: "Nec tu ingredieris illuc;
   38 sed Iosue filius Nun minister tuus ipse intrabit illuc. Hunc robora, et ipse terram sorte dividat Israeli.
   39 Parvuli vestri, de quibus dixistis quod captivi ducerentur, et filii, qui hodie boni ac mali ignorant distantiam, ipsi ingredientur; et ipsis dabo terram, et possidebunt eam.
   40 Vos autem revertimini et abite in solitudinem per viam maris Rubri"
   41 Et respondistis mihi: "Peccavimus Domino; nos ascendemus atque pugnabimus, sicut praecepit nobis Dominus Deus noster" Cumque instructi armis pergeretis in montem,
   42 ait mihi Dominus: "Dic ad eos: Nolite ascendere neque pugnetis, non enim sum vobiscum, ne cadatis coram inimicis vestris"
   43 Locutus sum, et non audistis, sed adversantes imperio Domini et tumentes superbia ascendistis in montem.
   44 Itaque egressus Amorraeus, qui habitat in monte illo, obviam vobis, persecutus est vos, sicut solent apes persequi, et cecidit vos de Seir usque Horma.
   45 Cumque reversi ploraretis coram Domino, non audivit vos nec voci vestrae voluit acquiescere.
   46 Sedistis ergo in Cades multo illo tempore, dum ibi mansistis.

Source: Bibliorum Sacrorum Editio, Sacrosanti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani II, Ratione Habita, Iussu Pauli PP. VI Recognita, Auctoritate Ioannis Pauli PP. II Promulgata, Editio Typica Altera

King James Version

   1 These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
   2 (There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadesh-barnea.)
   3 And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them;
   4 After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei:
   5 On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying,
   6 The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount:
   7 Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.
   8 Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.
   9 ¶ And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:
   10 The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.
   11 (The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)
   12 How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
   13 Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
   14 And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.
   15 So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.
   16 And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.
   17 Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.
   18 And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do.
   19 ¶ And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.
   20 And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give unto us.
   21 Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged.
   22 ¶ And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.
   23 And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:
   24 And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out.
   25 And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which the LORD our God doth give us.
   26 Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God:
   27 And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
   28 Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.
   29 Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.
   30 The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;
   31 And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.
   32 Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God,
   33 Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day.
   34 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,
   35 Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers,
   36 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed the LORD.
   37 Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither.
   38 But Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
   39 Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
   40 But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
   41 Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill.
   42 And the LORD said unto me, Say unto them, Go not up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies.
   43 So I spake unto you; and ye would not hear, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD, and went presumptuously up into the hill.
   44 And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, even unto Hormah.
   45 And ye returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you.
   46 So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode there.