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17 You must not be partial[a] in your judgment; [b] hear out the small person as also the great person; do not be intimidated by any person,[c] because the judgment is God’s; and the case that is too difficult[d] for you, bring it to me, and I will hear it out.’ 18 And so I instructed you at that time concerning all of the things that you should do.

19 “Then we set out from Horeb, and we went through the whole of that great and terrible desert that you saw on the way to the hill country of the Amorites[e] as Yahweh our God had commanded us, and so we came up to Kadesh Barnea.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 1:17 Literally “recognize faces”
  2. Deuteronomy 1:17 Literally “in the process of rendering a judgment”
  3. Deuteronomy 1:17 Literally “do not fear before the faces of any man”
  4. Deuteronomy 1:17 Or “hard”
  5. Deuteronomy 1:19 Hebrew “Amorite”