2. There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea.
3. And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first of the month, that Moses spoke to the children of Israel, according to all that Jehovah had given him in command to them;
4. after he had smitten Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei.
5. On this side the Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to unfold this law, saying,
6. Jehovah our God spoke unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have stayed long enough in this mountain.
7. Turn and take your journey, and go to the hill-country of the Amorites, and unto all the neighbouring places in the plain, in the mountain, and in the lowland, and in the south, and by the seaside, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.
8. Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which Jehovah swore unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.
9. And I spoke unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone.
10. Jehovah your God hath multiplied you, and behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.
11. Jehovah, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you as he hath said unto you!
12. How can I myself alone sustain your wear, and your burden, and your strife?
13. Provide you wise and understanding and known men, according to your tribes, that I may make them your chiefs.
14. And ye answered me, and said, The thing that thou hast spoken is good for us to do.
15. So I took the chiefs of your tribes, wise men and known, and made them chiefs over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers for your tribes.
16. And I commanded your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and him also that sojourneth with him.
17. Ye shall not respect persons in judgment: 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 matter that is too hard for you shall ye bring to me, that I may hear it.
18. And I commanded you at that time all the things that ye should do.
19. And we departed from Horeb and went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw, on the way to the mountain of the Amorites, as Jehovah our God had commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.
20. And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which Jehovah our God giveth us.