Deuteronomy 1:7-9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

⁷ Resume your journey, and go into the hill country of the Amorites as well as into the neighboring regions—the Arabah, the hill country, the Shephelah, the Negeb,^[a] and the seacoast—the land of the Canaanites and the Lebanon, as far as the great river, the River Euphrates. ⁸ See, I have set the land before you; go in and take possession of the land that the Lord swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their descendants after them.’^(A)

Appointment of Tribal Leaders

⁹ “At that time I said to you, ‘I am unable by myself to bear you.^(B)