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.

¹To so besede, ki jih je Mojzes govoril vsemu Izraelu vzhodno od Jordana v puščavi, v nižini [Hebr. Araba, t. j. nižina ob Jordanu in Mrtvem morju.] nasproti Sufu, med Paranom in Tofelom in Labanom in Hazerotom in Dizahabom.

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

²Enajst dni hoda je to od Horeba, na poti na Seirsko goro, do Kades-barnee.

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;

³V štiridesetem letu, prvi dan enajstega meseca, je govoril Mojzes Izraelovim sinovom vse, kar mu je bil GOSPOD zapovedal zanje;

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.

⁴potem ko je bil porazil Sihona, kralja Amorejcev, ki je prebival v Hesbonu, in Oga, kralja basanskega, ki je prebival v Astarotu in v Edreju.

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

⁵Onostran Jordana, v deželi Moabovi, je začel Mojzes razlagati ta zakon, rekoč:

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:

⁶GOSPOD, Bog naš, nam je govoril na Horebu takole: Dosti dolgo ste prebivali na tej gori;

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.

⁷obrnite se in odpotujte ter pojdite h gorovju Amorejcev in k vsem njih sosedom v nižini na gorovju in v nižavi, proti Jugu in proti morskemu obrežju, v deželo Kanaanca in k Libanonu, tja do reke, do velereke Evfrata.

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.”

⁸Poglejte, izročam vam to deželo; pojdite vanjo in posedite deželo, za katero je GOSPOD prisegel vašim očetom, Abrahamu, Izaku in Jakobu, da jo hoče dati njim in njih semenu za njimi.

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

⁹A jaz sem vam rekel v tistem času: Ne morem vas nositi sam.

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

¹⁰GOSPOD, vaš Bog, vas je razmnožil, da vas je danes, glejte, mnogo kakor zvezd na nebu.

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

¹¹GOSPOD, očetov vaših Bog, razmnóži vas še tisočkrat in blagoslovi vas, kakor vam je obljubil!

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

¹²Kako pa naj sam prenašam vaše težave, vaše breme in vaše prepire?

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

¹³Oskrbite si modre može, razumne in poznane po vaših rodovih, da vam jih postavim za poglavarje.

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

¹⁴In odgovorili ste mi, rekoč: Reč, o kateri praviš, je dobra, da jo storimo.

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.

¹⁵Vzel sem torej načelnike vaših rodov, modre može in poznane, in postavil sem vam jih za poglavarje, za vojvode čez tisoč, vojvode čez sto, vojvode čez petdeset in vojvode čez deset, in za oblastnike po vaših rodovih.

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.

¹⁶In naročil sem takrat sodnikom vašim, rekoč: Zaslišujte pravde svojih bratov in pravično sodite vsakega in njegovega brata in tujca, ki biva ž njim.

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.”

¹⁷Ne ozirajte se na osebe v sodbi, temuč poslušajte malega kakor velikega; nikogar se ne bojte, zakaj Božja je sodba. Zadeva pa, ki bi vam bila pretežka, dejte, da pride predme, da jo slišim.

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

¹⁸In zapovedal sem vam takrat vse, kar naj delate.

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.

¹⁹Tedaj smo odrinili s Horeba in šli skozi vso to puščavo, ki je velika in grozovita, kakor ste videli, po poti v gorovje Amorejcev, kakor nam je bil zapovedal GOSPOD, Bog naš; in prišli smo v Kades-barneo.

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

²⁰Tu sem vam rekel: Prišli ste h gorovju Amorejcev, katero nam daje GOSPOD, Bog naš.

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.”

²¹Poglej, izročil ti je deželo GOSPOD, Bog tvoj: pojdi gori, posedi jo, kakor ti je obljubil GOSPOD, očetov tvojih Bog. Ne boj se in ne plaši se!

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.”

²²Nato ste vsi pristopili k meni in dejali: Naj pošljemo može pred seboj, da nam razgledajo to deželo ter nam povedo, po kateri poti naj gremo vanjo in v katera mesta pridemo.

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

²³To se mi je dobro videlo; vzel sem torej izmed vas dvanajst mož, iz vsakega rodu enega.

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

²⁴Ti so krenili na pot in so šli v gore in prišli do potoka Eškola in si jo ogledali;

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.”

²⁵in so vzeli s sabo od tiste dežele sadu in prinesli sem k nam, in so nam sporočili, govoreč: Dobra je dežela, ki nam jo hoče dati GOSPOD, Bog naš.

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

²⁶Ali niste hoteli iti gori; upirali ste se povelju GOSPODA, Boga svojega,

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.

²⁷in mrmrali ste po šatorih in govorili: GOSPOD nam je sovražen, zato nas je odpeljal iz Egiptovske dežele, da nas da Amorejcem v pest, da nas pokončajo.

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.’”

²⁸Kam hočemo iti? Naši bratje so nam v obup zapeljali srce, govoreč: To ljudstvo je večje in višje postave od nas, mesta so velika in do neba obzidana, vrhutega smo tam videli sinove Enakimov.

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

²⁹Pa sem vam rekel: Ne strašite se in ne boj te se jih!

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,

³⁰GOSPOD, Bog vaš, ki gre pred vami, se bo bojeval za vas, prav kakor vam je storil v Egiptu pred vašimi očmi

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.”

³¹in v puščavi, kjer si videl, da te je nosil GOSPOD, Bog tvoj, liki mož, ki nosi svojega sinčka, po vsej poti, po kateri ste šli, dokler niste dospeli do tega kraja.

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

³²A navzlic temu niste verovali v GOSPODA, Boga svojega,

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.

³³ki je hodil po poti pred vami, da vam poišče mesta, kjer naj bi si razpeli šatore, po noči v ognju, da vidite pot, po kateri vam je iti, a po dne v oblaku.

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

³⁴Ko pa je GOSPOD slišal glas vaših besed, se je razsrdil in prisegel, rekoč:

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

³⁵Nobeden teh mož, nihče iz tega hudega rodu ne bo videl tiste dobre dežele, za katero sem prisegel njih očetom, da jim jo dam,

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.”

³⁶razen Kaleba, sinu Jefunovega, on jo bo videl: njemu in njegovim otrokom hočem dati deželo, po kateri je stopal, zato ker je zvesto hodil za GOSPODOM.

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

³⁷Tudi nad menoj se je srdil GOSPOD zaradi vas in rekel: Tudi ti ne prideš vanjo.

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.

³⁸Jozue, sin Nunov, ki ti služi, pride vanjo: njega ohrabri! zakaj on razdeli Izraelu dediščino.

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.

³⁹Otročiči vaši pa, o katerih ste dejali, da pridejo v plen, in sinovi vaši, ki še ne poznajo ne dobrega, ne hudega, ti pridejo vanjo, njim jo dam in oni jo posedejo.

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

⁴⁰Vi pa se obrnite in popotujte v puščavo po poti k Rdečemu morju.

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.

⁴¹Tedaj ste odgovorili in mi rekli: Grešili smo zoper GOSPODA; hočemo pa iti gori in se bojevati, prav kakor nam je zapovedal GOSPOD, Bog naš. In pripasali ste si vsak svoj meč, in lahkomiselno ste ubrali pot v gorovje.

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.’”

⁴²GOSPOD pa mi je rekel: Véli jim, ne hodite gori in ne bojujte se, zakaj jaz nisem med vami, da ne boste poraženi pred sovražniki svojimi.

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.

⁴³To sem vam povedal, toda vi niste poslušali, temuč uprli ste se povelju GOSPODOVEMU in v prevzetnosti svoji šli na gorovje.

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.

⁴⁴Tedaj pridejo vam nasproti Amorejci, ki so bivali na tistem gorovju, in so vas gonili, kakor delajo čebele, in so vas pobijali v Seiru prav do Horme.

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

⁴⁵In ko ste se vrnili, ste jokali pred GOSPODOM, a GOSPOD ni hotel vašega glasu poslušati ter ni nagnil k vam ušesa svojega.Zato ste ostali mnogo dni v Kadesu, kolikor dni ste morali ondi bivati.

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

⁴⁶Zato ste ostali mnogo dni v Kadesu, kolikor dni ste morali ondi bivati.