These are the words that Moses addressed to all Israel on the other side of the Jordan.—Through the wilderness, in the Arabah near Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Di-zahab,
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אלה
36
הדברים
261
אשר
501
דבר
206
משה
345
אלכלישראל
622
בעבר
274
הירדן
269
במדבר
248
בערבה
279
מול
76
סוף
146
ביןפארן
393
וביןתפל
578
ולבן
88
וחצרת
704
ודי
20
זהב
14
Deuteronomy 1:2
Gematria: 2698
אחדעשריוםמחרבדרךהרשעירעדקדשברנע
it is eleven days from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea by the Mount Seir route. Through the wilderness … by the Mount Seir route This passage is unclear; cf. v. 19 and Num. 33.16–36. —
It was in the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, that Moses addressed the Israelites in accordance with the instructions that יהוה had given him for them,
after he had defeated Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and King Og of Bashan, who dwelt at Ashtaroth [and] [and] Cf. Josh. 12.4; 13.12, 31. Edrei.
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אחרי
219
הכתו
431
את
401
סיחן
128
מלך
90
האמרי
256
אשר
501
יושב
318
בחשבון
368
ואת
407
עוג
79
מלך
90
הבשן
357
אשריושב
819
בעשתרת
1372
באדרעי
287
Deuteronomy 1:5
Gematria: 3186
בעברהירדןבארץמואבהואילמשהבאראתהתורההזאתלאמר
On the other side of the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses undertook to expound this Teaching. He said:
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בעבר
274
הירדן
269
בארץ
293
מואב
49
הואיל
52
משה
345
באר
203
אתהתורה
1017
הזאת
413
לאמר
271
Deuteronomy 1:6
Gematria: 2132
יהוהאלהינודבראלינובחרבלאמררבלכםשבתבהרהזה
Our God יהוה spoke to us at Horeb, saying: You have stayed long enough at this mountain.
Start out and make your way to the hill country of the Amorites and to all their neighbors in the Arabah, the hill country, the Shephelah, .” the Negeb, the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites, land of the Canaanites I.e., Phoenicia. and the Lebanon, as far as the Great River, the river Euphrates.
See, I place the land at your disposal. Go, take possession of the land that יהוה swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to assign to them and to their heirs after them.
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ראה
206
נתתי
860
לפניכם
230
אתהארץ
697
באו
9
ורשו
512
אתהארץ
697
אשר
501
נשבע
422
יהוה
26
לאבתיכם
503
לאברהם
278
ליצחק
238
וליעקב
218
לתת
830
להם
75
ולזרעם
353
אחריהם
264
Deuteronomy 1:9
Gematria: 2394
ואמראלכםבעתההואלאמרלאאוכללבדישאתאתכם
Thereupon I said to you, “I cannot bear the burden of you by myself.
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ואמר
247
אלכם
91
בעת
472
ההוא
17
לאמר
271
לאאוכל
88
לבדי
46
שאת
701
אתכם
461
Deuteronomy 1:10
Gematria: 1692
יהוהאלהיכםהרבהאתכםוהנכםהיוםככוכביהשמיםלרב
Your God יהוה has multiplied you until you are today as numerous as the stars in the sky.—
May יהוה, the God of your ancestors, increase your numbers a thousandfold, and bless you as promised.—
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יהוה
26
אלהי
46
אבותכם
469
יסף
150
עליכם
170
ככם
80
אלף
111
פעמים
240
ויברך
238
אתכם
461
כאשר
521
דבר
206
לכם
90
Deuteronomy 1:12
Gematria: 1346
איכהאשאלבדיטרחכםומשאכםוריבכם
How can I bear unaided the trouble of you, and the burden, and the bickering!
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איכה
36
אשא
302
לבדי
46
טרחכם
277
ומשאכם
407
וריבכם
278
Deuteronomy 1:13
Gematria: 2301
הבולכםאנשיםחכמיםונבניםוידעיםלשבטיכםואשימםבראשיכם
Pick from each of your tribes candidates “men.” See the Dictionary under ’ish. who are wise, discerning, and experienced, and I will appoint them as your heads.”
So I took your tribal leaders, wise and experienced men, wise and experienced men A statement of characterization, not an exclusion of women from tribal leadership (which is not treated explicitly in the Torah). See the Dictionary under ’ish. and appointed them heads over you: chiefs of thousands, chiefs of hundreds, chiefs of fifties, and chiefs of tens, and officials for your tribes.
I charged your magistrates at that time as follows, “Hear out your fellow Israelites, and decide justly between one party and the other—be it a fellow Israelite or a stranger.
You shall not be partial in judgment: hear out low and high alike. Fear neither party, neither party Or “no human being.” for judgment is God’s. And any matter that is too difficult for you, you shall bring to me and I will hear it.”
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לאתכירו
667
פנים
180
במשפט
431
כקטן
179
כגדל
57
תשמעון
866
לא
31
תגורו
615
מפניאיש
491
כי
30
המשפט
434
לאלהים
116
הוא
12
והדבר
217
אשר
501
יקשה
415
מכם
100
תקרבון
758
אלי
41
ושמעתיו
832
Deuteronomy 1:18
Gematria: 3097
ואצוהאתכםבעתההואאתכלהדבריםאשרתעשון
Thus I instructed you, at that time, about the various things that you should do.
We set out from Horeb and traveled the great and terrible wilderness that you saw, along the road to the hill country of the Amorites, as our God יהוה had commanded us. When we reached Kadesh-barnea,
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ונסע
186
מחרב
250
ונלך
106
את
401
כלהמדבר
301
הגדול
48
והנורא
268
ההוא
17
אשר
501
ראיתם
651
דרך
224
הר
205
האמרי
256
כאשר
521
צוה
101
יהוה
26
אלהינו
102
אתנו
457
ונבא
59
עד
74
קדש
404
ברנע
322
Deuteronomy 1:20
Gematria: 2531
ואמראלכםבאתםעדהרהאמריאשריהוהאלהינונתןלנו
I said to you, “You have come to the hill country of the Amorites which our God יהוה is giving to us.
See, your God יהוה has placed the land at your disposal. Go up, take possession, as יהוה, the God of your fathers, promised you. Fear not and be not dismayed.”
Then all of you came to me and said, “Let us send agents “men.” See the Dictionary under ’ish; Agent. ahead to reconnoiter the land for us and bring back word on the route we shall follow and the cities we shall come to.”
They took some of the fruit of the land with them and brought it down to us. And they gave us this report: “It is a good land that our God יהוה is giving to us.”
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ויקחו
130
בידם
56
מפרי
330
הארץ
296
ויורדו
232
אלינו
97
וישבו
324
אתנו
457
דבר
206
ויאמרו
263
טובה
22
הארץ
296
אשריהוה
527
אלהינו
102
נתן
500
לנו
86
Deuteronomy 1:26
Gematria: 2295
ולאאביתםלעלתותמרואתפייהוהאלהיכם
Yet you refused to go up, and flouted the command of your God יהוה.
You sulked You sulked Precise meaning of Heb. watteragnu uncertain. in your tents and said, “It is out of hatred for us that יהוה brought us out of the land of Egypt, to hand us over to the Amorites to wipe us out.
What kind of place ” are we going to? Our brothers have taken the heart out of us, saying, ‘We saw there a people stronger and taller than we, large cities with walls sky-high, and even Anakites.’”
and in the wilderness, where you saw how your God יהוה carried you, as a householder “man,” but not all men are householders. See the Dictionary under ’ish. carries his son, as a householder carries his son This schematic comparison presupposes that a householder’s main responsibility is his corporate household’s continuity—represented by his heir. For God as householder, see Deut. 28.10 (and
Translation Notes
*householder Typically, a man. — Lit. “participant whose involvement defines the depicted situation”; trad.
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ובמדבר
254
אשר
501
ראית
611
אשר
501
נשאך
371
יהוה
26
אלהיך
66
כאשר
521
ישאאיש
622
אתבנו
459
בכלהדרך
281
אשר
501
הלכתם
495
עדבאכם
137
עדהמקום
265
הזה
17
Deuteronomy 1:32
Gematria: 667
ובדברהזהאינכםמאמינםביהוהאלהיכם
Yet for all that, you have no faith in your God יהוה,
who goes before you on your journeys—to scout the place where you are to encamp—in fire by night and in cloud by day, in order to guide you on the route you are to follow.”
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ההלך
60
לפניכם
230
בדרך
226
לתור
636
לכם
90
מקום
186
לחנתכם
548
באש
303
לילה
75
לראתכם
691
בדרך
226
אשר
501
תלכובה
463
ובענן
178
יומם
96
Deuteronomy 1:34
Gematria: 2210
וישמעיהוהאתקולדבריכםויקצףוישבעלאמר
יהוה heard your loud complaint and, becoming angry, vowed:
none except Caleb son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him and his descendants will I give the land on which he set foot, because he remained loyal to יהוה.—
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זולתי
453
כלב
52
בןיפנה
197
הוא
12
יראנה
266
ולואתן
493
אתהארץ
697
אשר
501
דרךבה
231
ולבניו
104
יען
130
אשר
501
מלא
71
אחרי
219
יהוה
26
Deuteronomy 1:37
Gematria: 2236
גםביהתאנףיהוהבגללכםלאמרגםאתהלאתבאשם
Because of you יהוה was incensed with me too, saying: You shall not enter it either.
Moreover, your little ones who you said would be carried off, your children who do not yet know good from bad, they shall enter it; to them will I give it and they shall possess it.
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וטפכם
155
אשר
501
אמרתם
681
לבז
39
יהיה
30
ובניכם
128
אשר
501
לאידעו
121
היום
61
טוב
17
ורע
276
המה
50
יבאו
19
שמה
345
ולהם
81
אתננה
506
והם
51
יירשוה
531
Deuteronomy 1:40
Gematria: 1491
ואתםפנולכםוסעוהמדברהדרךיםסוף
As for you, turn about and march into the wilderness by the way of the Sea of Reeds.
You replied to me, saying, “We stand guilty before יהוה. We will go up now and fight, just as our God יהוה commanded us.” And [the men among] you each girded yourselves with war gear and recklessly recklessly Meaning of Heb. wattahinu uncertain. started for the hill country.