Deuteronomy 1:15-17

Bible Text

[15] So 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. [16] I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear [the causes] between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him. [17] You 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: and the cause that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.

These places trace Israel’s route from Horeb through the wilderness toward Canaan, the land God promised from the Negeb and Lebanon to the Euphrates. At this stage near Kadesh-barnea, Moses appointed judges to administer impartial justice among the tribes as

Places in this passage

Deuteronomy 1:15-17 mentions Arabah, Ashtaroth, Bashan, Canaan, Edrei, Egypt, Euphrates, Jordan, Kadesh-barnea, Lebanon, Moab, Mount Horeb, Mount Seir, Negeb, Paran, Shephelah, Valley of Eshcol and Way of the Red Sea.

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