5. Beyond (east of) the Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses began to explain this law, saying,
6. The Lord our God said to us in Horeb, You have dwelt long enough on this mountain.
7. Turn and take up your journey and go to the hill country of the Amorites, and to all their neighbors in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the lowland, in the South (the Negeb), and on the coast, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.
8. Behold, I have set the land before you; go in and take possession of the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their descendants after them.
9. I said to you at that time, I am not able to bear you alone.
10. The Lord your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day as the stars of the heavens for multitude.
11. May the Lord, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are and bless you as He has promised you!
12. How can I bear alone the weariness and pressure and burden of you and your strife?
13. Choose wise, understanding, experienced, and respected men according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.
14. And you answered me, The thing which you have spoken is good for us to do.
15. So I took the heads of your tribes, wise, experienced, and respected men, and made them heads over you, commanders of thousands, and hundreds, and fifties, and tens, and officers according to your tribes.
16. And I charged your judges at that time: Hear the cases between your brethren and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the stranger or sojourner who is with him.
17. You shall not be partial in judgment; but you shall hear the small as well as the great. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God's. And the case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.
18. And I commanded you at that time all the things that you should do.
19. And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as the Lord our God commanded us, and we came to Kadesh-barnea.
20. And I said to you, You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which the Lord our God gives us.
21. Behold, the Lord your God has set the land before you; go up and possess it, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has said to you. Fear not, neither be dismayed.
22. Then you all came near to me and said, Let us send men before us, that they may search out the land for us and bring us word again by what way we should go up and the cities into which we shall come.
23. The thing pleased me well, and I took twelve men of you, one for each tribe.
24. And they turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the Valley of Eshcol and spied it out.