¹These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah over against Suph, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.

¹Hiai thu Jordan suah lam gamdai, Paran leh Tophel leh Laban leh Haze-roth leh Di-zahab kikal a Suph chin Arabaa Mosi in Israel mite tengteng kiang a a gen ahi.

²It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea.

²Horeb tang a kipan in Kades-barnea bel Seir tang lam lampi ah ni sawm leh ni khat lam ahi.

³It happened in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spoke to the children of Israel, according to all that Yahweh “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. had given him in commandment to them;

³Huan, kum sawmli kum, kha sawm leh kha khatna, huai kha ni khat ni in, hichi ahi a, TOUPA'N amau hilh ding a thu a piak tengteng Israel suante kiang ah Mosi in a gen a;

⁴after he had struck Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth, at Edrei.

⁴Hesbon a om Amorte kumpipa Sihon leh Edrei leh Astarot a om Basan kumpipa Og a thah nung in:

⁵Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying,

⁵Jordan suah lam Moab gamah hiai dan Mosi in a genkhe panta hi.

⁶“Yahweh our God The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.” spoke to us in Horeb, saying, You have lived long enough in this mountain:

⁶TOUPA i Pathian un Horeb tang ah hon houpih a, Hiai tang ah na om sawt hunta uh:

⁷turn, and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites, and to all the places near there, in the Arabah, in the hill country, and in the lowland, and in the South, and by the seashore, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.

⁷Kisuan ta unla, paikhia unla, Amorte tang gamah leh a kimvel teng Araba ah khawng, tang gam te ah khawng, phai gamah te leh Lebanon ahte, luipi Euphrates tan in pai un.

⁸Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their seed after them.”

⁸Ngai un, gam ka hon pekhin a: na pu uh Abrahamte, Isakte, Jakobte leh amau nung a a suan sawnte uh kiang a kichiam a TOUPA'N a piak gam va luah un, chi in.

⁹I spoke to you at that time, saying, “I am not able to bear you myself alone:

⁹Huan, huai lai in na kiang uah, Kei kia in ka hon pozou kei a;

¹⁰Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day as the stars of the sky for multitude.

¹⁰TOUPA na Pathian un a hon pung sak a, ngai un, tu in na tamdan uh van a aksi zah hial a hong hi ta uh.

¹¹Yahweh, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are, and bless you, as he has promised you!

¹¹TOUPA, na pi-le-pute un Pathian in tu sanga amun sang in hon pung sak henla, a hon chiam bang in hon vualzawl hen.

¹²How can I myself alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?

¹²Bang chi in kei kia in na buainate uh, na puakgikte uh, na kihou theihlouhnate uh ka po zou dia?

¹³Take wise men of understanding and well known according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.”

¹³Na nam lak ua mi, mi pil, theisiam mi, a dan ding theimi kitelkhia unla, na tung ua heutu ding in ka hon bawl ding, chi in a hon houpih a.

¹⁴You answered me, and said, “The thing which you have spoken is good to do.”

¹⁴Huan, nou na thil gen kou a ding in a hoih mahmah, chi in no'n dawng ua.

¹⁵So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes.

¹⁵Huchi in na nam heutute uh ka pom a, na nam lak ua mi, mi pil a dan ding thei mite na tung ua heutu ding in ka bawl a, sang tung a heutu, za tung a heutute, sawmnga tung a heutute, sawm tung a heutute, inntek pente toh.

¹⁶I commanded your judges at that time, saying, “Hear cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him.

¹⁶Huan, huailai in na vaihawm mite uh, Na unaute uh kal a thu ngaihkhiak sak unla, unau leh unau kal ah leh gamdang mi, a ompih toh a kaal uah diktat tak in hawm un.

¹⁷You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike; you shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.”

¹⁷Vaihawmna ah deihsak tuam na neih ding uh ahi kei; mi neu leh mi lian kibang tak in na ngaihkhiak sak ding uh ahi; kuamah na lau ding uh ahi kei; vaihawmna lah Pathian a ahi ngal a: nou a ding a thu haksa luate ka kiang ah na hon tun zel ding ua, huan, huai ka ngaikhe zel ding, chi in thu ka pia.

¹⁸I commanded you at that time all the things which you should do.

¹⁸Huan, huai lai in thil na hihdan ding tengteng uah thu ka hon pia hi.

¹⁹We traveled from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw, by the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as Yahweh our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh Barnea.

¹⁹Huan, TOUPA'N thu hon piak bang in Horeb tang a kipan in i pawt ua, Amorte tang gam lampi a gamdai zapi leh mulkimhuai tak na muh uh i kantan ua, Kadesbarnea khua I va tung ua.

²⁰I said to you, “You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which Yahweh our God gives to us.

²⁰Huan, na kiang uah, TOUPA i Pathian in a hon piak Amorte tang gam na hong tung ta ua.

²¹Behold, Yahweh your God has set the land before you: go up, take possession, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has spoken to you; don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed.”

²¹Ngai dih ua, TOUPA na Pathian un gam a hon pekhin ta hi; hohtou unla, TOUPA na pi-le-pute uh Pathian in a na genkhitsa bang in va luahtou un; lau kei unla, lunglel sam kei un, ka hon chi a.

²²You came near to me everyone of you, and said, “Let us send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come.”

²²Huan, ka kiang ah na hong paivek ua, a gam khawng va enkhia in, i hohtouhna ding lampi leh i hohna ding kho tanchinte hong hilh nawn ding in i ma uah mi sawl leng, na chi ua:

²³The thing pleased me well; and I took twelve men of you, one man for every tribe:

²³Huai in hon kipaksak ngial a; huchi in na lak ua mi sawm leh nih, nam khat a khat zel ka tel a:

²⁴and they turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out.

²⁴Huchi in a pawt ta ua, tang ah a kahtou ua, Eskol guam a va tung ua, a enkhe vek ua.

²⁵They took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down to us, and brought us word again, and said, “It is a good land which Yahweh our God gives to us.”

²⁵Huai gam a theite a lou ua, a hon puak ua, tanchin a hon tun ua; TOUPA i Pathian hon gam piak hoih petmah ahi, a chi ua.

²⁶Yet you wouldn’t go up, but rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God:

²⁶Himahleh na hohtou nuam kei ua, TOUPA na Pathian uh thupiak na helsan ua:

²⁷and you murmured in your tents, and said, “Because Yahweh hated us, he has brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

²⁷Na puan innte uah na phun ua, TOUPA'N a hon huat ziak in hon hihmang ding a, Amorte khut a hon pe ding in Aigupta gam a kipan hon pikhia ahi.

²⁸Where are we going up? our brothers have made our heart to melt, saying, ‘The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to the sky; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.’”

²⁸Koi lai ah ahia i hoh touh ding? I unaute'n, mihing ei sang in a lian ua, san leng a sang zaw ua; khuate khawng a lian a, van sun in kulh a nei uh; huan, Anakte tate leng i mu a, chi in i lungtang uh a kesak ua, na chi uh.

²⁹Then I said to you, “Don’t dread, neither be afraid of them.

²⁹Huan, ke'n na kiang uah, Amaute kihta kei unla, lau leng lau sam kei un.

³⁰Yahweh your God who goes before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,

³⁰TOUPA na Pathian na makaipa un na mitmuh ua Aigupta gam a hon hihsak tengteng bang in a hon sual pih ding a;

³¹and in the wilderness, where you have seen how that Yahweh your God bore you, as a man does bear his son, in all the way that you went, until you came to this place.”

³¹Gamdai ah leng mi'n a ta a pua TOUPA na Pathian un hiai lai mun na tun tan un lam tawn a hon puakdan na mu ding uhi, ka chi a.

³²Yet in this thing you didn’t believe Yahweh your God,

³²Himahleh hiai thil ah TOUPA na Pathian uh na gingta kei uh,

³³who went before you in the way, to seek you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in the cloud by day.

³³Na puan inn na zak ding uh hon zonsak ding leh na lampi uh hon kawkmuh ding a zan a mei a, sun a meipi a na ma uh pipa.

³⁴Yahweh heard the voice of your words, and was angry, and swore, saying,

³⁴Huan TOUPA'N na thugen uh a na za a, a heh a, a kichiam a,

³⁵“Surely not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land, which I swore to give to your fathers,

³⁵Hiai suan gilou tak lak a mi khat mahmah in leng na pi-le-pute uh pe ding a ka kichiamna gam hoih petmah a mu kei ding uh,

³⁶except Caleb the son of Jephunneh: he shall see it; and to him will I give the land that he has trodden on, and to his children, because he has wholly followed Yahweh.”

³⁶Jephune tapa Kaleb kia ngallou in; aman zaw a mu ding; a va sik gam amah leh a tate ka pe ding, aman TOUPA a pomkip ziak in, chi in.

³⁷Also Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, saying, “You also shall not go in there:

³⁷Noute ziak in ka tungah leng TOUPA a heh a, Nang leng huai lai ah na lut kei ding a:

³⁸Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall go in there: encourage you him; for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.

³⁸Na nnasempa Nun tapa Josua bel a lut ding; amah hasuan in, Israelte a lutsak sin ahi.

³⁹Moreover your little ones, whom you said should be a prey, and your children, who this day have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there, and to them will I give it, and they shall possess it.

³⁹Na ta neute uh, Gallak in a la mai ding uh, na chih uleh, tua asia-apha thei nailou na tate uh a lut ding ua, amau zaw ka pe ding a, a luah ding uh.

⁴⁰But as for you, turn, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea or, Sea of Reeds .”

⁴⁰Nou a hihleh kihei unla, Tuipi San lam ah gamdai ah hoh un, chi in.

⁴¹Then you answered and said to me, “We have sinned against Yahweh, we will go up and fight, according to all that Yahweh our God commanded us.” Every man of you put on his weapons of war, and presumed to go up into the hill country.

⁴¹Huan, Nou TOUPA tungah i na khial ta uhi, i hohtou ding ua, TOUPA i Pathan in thu a hon piak tengteng bang in i va sual ding uh, chi in no'n dawng ua, huchi in kidouna van in na kivan chiat ua, tang a hohtouh thil neuchik ding in na ngaihtuah ua.

⁴²Yahweh said to me, “Tell them, ‘Don’t go up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest you be struck before your enemies.’”

⁴²Huan, TOUPA'N ka kiang ah, Hohtou kei un, va sual sam kei un, na lak uah lah ka om ngal kei a, na melmate un a hon na hihlum kha ding uh, a kiang uah chi in, a hon chi a.

⁴³So I spoke to you, and you didn’t listen; but you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh, and were presumptuous, and went up into the hill country.

⁴³Huai ka hon hilh a, na pom kei ua, TOUPA thupiak na helsan zo ta ua, tang ah na hohtou teitei uh.

⁴⁴The Amorites, who lived in that hill country, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and beat you down in Seir, even to Hormah.

⁴⁴Huan, huai tang ah Amorte'n a honna sual ua, khuai mi delh bang in a hon na delh ua, Seir a kipan in Horma tan in a hon that zel ua.

⁴⁵You returned and wept before Yahweh; but Yahweh didn’t listen to your voice, nor gave ear to you.

⁴⁵Huan, na hong kiknawn ua, TOUPA ma ah na kap ua; himahleh TOUPA'N na aw uh a ngaikhe nuamkei a, a bil leng a hon doh nuam sam kei hi.Huchi in huai a na om sung uh ngaihtuah in Kades ah sawtpi na om uhi.

⁴⁶So you stayed in Kadesh many days, according to the days that you remained.

⁴⁶Huchi in huai a na om sung uh ngaihtuah in Kades ah sawtpi na om uhi.