7. Get up now, resume your journey, heading for the Amorite hill country, to all its areas including the arid country, the highlands, the Shephelah, the Negev, and the coastal plain – all of Canaan and Lebanon as far as the Great River, that is, the Euphrates.
8. Look! I have already given the land to you. Go, occupy the territory that I, the Lord, promised to give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants.”
9. I also said to you at that time, “I am no longer able to sustain you by myself.
10. The Lord your God has increased your population to the point that you are now as numerous as the very stars of the sky.
11. Indeed, may the Lord, the God of your ancestors, make you a thousand times more numerous than you are now, blessing you just as he said he would!
12. But how can I alone bear up under the burden of your hardship and strife?