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17 You shall not [a]show partiality in judgment; you shall hear and pay attention to the [cases of the] least [important] as well as the great. You shall not [b]fear man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you [to judge], you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.’ 18 I commanded you at that time [regarding] all the things that you should do.

19 “Then we set out from Horeb (Sinai), and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw on the way to the hill country of the [c]Amorites, just as the Lord our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 1:17 Lit recognize faces.
  2. Deuteronomy 1:17 Lit fear because of the face of.
  3. Deuteronomy 1:19 A tribal people descended from Canaan the son of Ham the son of Noah. The Amorites were so prominent that “Amorite” is sometimes used interchangeably with “Canaanite” to refer to all the people living in Canaan.

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