9  And I spoke unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone. 10  Jehovah your God hath multiplied you, and behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude. 11  Jehovah, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you as he hath said unto you! 12  How can I myself alone sustain your wear, and your burden, and your strife? 13  Provide you wise and understanding and known men, according to your tribes, that I may make them your chiefs. 14  And ye answered me, and said, The thing that thou hast spoken is good for us to do. 15  So I took the chiefs of your tribes, wise men and known, and made them chiefs over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers for your tribes. 16  And I commanded your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and him also that sojourneth with him. 17  Ye shall not respect persons in judgment: ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God’s; and the matter that is too hard for you shall ye bring to me, that I may hear it. 18  And I commanded you at that time all the things that ye should do.

19  And we departed from Horeb and went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw, on the way to the mountain of the Amorites, as Jehovah our God had commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea. 20  And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which Jehovah our God giveth us. 21  Behold, Jehovah thy God hath set the land before thee: go up, take possession, as Jehovah the God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be dismayed. 22  And ye came near to me all of you, and said, We will send men before us, who shall examine the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up, and of the cities to which we shall come. 23  And the matter was good in mine eyes; and I took twelve men of you, one man for a tribe. 24  And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came to the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out. 25  And they took of the fruit of the land in their hand, and brought it down unto us, and brought us answer, and said, The land is good that Jehovah our God hath given us. 26  But ye would not go up, and rebelled against the word of Jehovah your God; 27  and ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because Jehovah hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. 28  Whither shall we go up? Our brethren have made our hearts melt, saying, They are a people greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there. 29  And I said unto you, Be not afraid, neither fear them; 30  Jehovah your God who goeth before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes; 31  and in the wilderness where thou hast seen that Jehovah thy God bore thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came to this place.