Deuteronomy 1:7-9

Contemporary English Version

⁷ Leave this place and go into the land that belongs to the Amorites and their neighbors the Canaanites. This land includes the Jordan River valley, the hill country, the western foothills, the Southern Desert, the Mediterranean seacoast, the Lebanon Mountains, and all the territory as far as the Euphrates River. ⁸ I give you this land, just as I promised your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Now you must go and take the land.

Leaders Were Appointed

(Exodus 18.13-27)

Moses said:

⁹ Right after the Lord commanded us to leave Mount Sinai,^[a] I told you:

Israel, being your leader is too big a job for one person.