1 Moses spoke to all Israel in the dry land, near Suph, Paran, Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab. ️️ 2 It takes 11 days to walk from Horeb, by Seir, to Kadesh-Barnea. ️ 3 In year 40, month 11, day 1, Moses told Israel all God said. ️ 4 This was after Moses beat Sihon the Amorite king and Og the Bashan king. ⚔️ 5 In Moab, Moses began to teach God’s law. 6 Moses said, God spoke at Horeb. God said we stayed at this hill too long. ⛰️⏱️ 7 God said, Go now to the hills, flat land, south, by the sea, to Canaan and Lebanon, to the big river called Euphrates. ️ 8 God said, See, I give you the land I promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and their kids. Go take it. ️ 9 Moses said, I cannot lead you all alone. 10 God made you many, like stars in the sky. ✨ 11 Moses said, May God make you 1000 times more and bless you. ✨ 12 Moses said, I cannot carry all your trouble and fights alone. 13 Pick wise men from your family groups. I will make them your helpers. ✅ 14 You all said, That is good. 15 So I picked leaders for you: over 1000, 100, 50, and 10, and other helpers. 16 I told the judges, Hear the people. Be fair to all, to your own and to a guest. ⚖️ 17 Do not fear big or small. God is the judge. Hard cases, bring to me. ⚖️ 18 I told you all the rules to do. 19 We left Horeb and walked in a big, scary wild land. God led us. We came to Kadesh-Barnea. ️♂️ 20 I said, You came to the hill land the Lord gives us. ⛰️ 21 I said, God puts the land in front of you. Go take it. Do not fear. ♂️ 22 You all came and said, Let us send men to look at the land and towns. ️♂️️ 23 I liked that. I chose 12 men, one from each family group. 1️⃣2️⃣ 24 They went up, came to the Eshcol valley, and looked. ️ 25 They took fruit and brought it back. They said, The land is good. 26 But you would not go. You did not obey God. ♂️ 27 You complained in your tents. You said, God hates us. He took us from Egypt to let the Amorites beat us. ⛺ 28 You said, Where can we go? The men made us afraid. The people there are big and tall. The towns have big walls. We saw the Anak people there. 29 I said, Do not be scared. Do not fear them. ️ 30 God goes first for you. He will fight for you, like He did in Egypt. ️ 31 In the wild land, God carried you, like a dad carries his son, all the way here. 32 But you did not trust God. 33 God went ahead to find camp spots. He showed the way with fire at night and a cloud in day. ☁️ 34 God heard your words and was mad. 35 God said, This bad group will not see the good land I promised. 36 Only Caleb, son of Jephunneh, will see it. He obeyed God. He and his kids will get land. ♂️✅ 37 God was mad with me too because of you. He said I will not go in. 38 Joshua, son of Nun, will go in. Help him be strong. He will lead Israel. ♂️ 39 Your little kids, who do not know yet, will go in. I will give it to them. ️ 40 But you all, turn back to the wild land, toward the Red Sea. ↩️️ 41 You said, We did wrong. We will go fight now. You got your swords and were ready to go up. ⚔️♂️ 42 God said to me, Tell them, Do not go or fight. I am not with you. You will lose. ⚔️ 43 I told you, but you did not listen. You went up anyway. ♂️ 44 The Amorites came out. They chased you like bees and hit you from Seir to Hormah. ♂️ 45 You came back and cried to God. But God did not listen then. 46 So you stayed many days in Kadesh. ⛺⏳