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Deuteronomy 1:9
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7 Turn and take your journey, and go to the mountains of the Amorites, to all the neighboring places in the1 plain, in the mountains and in the lowland, in the South and on the seacoast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the River Euphrates.  
8 See, I have set the land before you; go in and possess the land which the Lord1 swore to your fathers—to aAbraham, Isaac, and Jacob—to give to them and their descendants after them.’  

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9 “And aI spoke to you at that time, saying: ‘I1 alone am not able to bear you.  
10 The Lord your God has multiplied you, aand here you are today, as the stars of heaven in multitude.  
11 aMay the Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times more numerous than you are, and bless you bas He has promised you!  
12 aHow can I alone bear your problems and your burdens and your complaints?  
13 Choose wise, understanding, and knowledgeable men from among your tribes, and I will make them1 heads over you.’  
14 And you answered me and said, ‘The thing which you have told us to do is good.’
15 So I took athe heads of your tribes, wise and knowledgeable men, and1 made them heads over you, leaders of thousands, leaders of hundreds, leaders of fifties, leaders of tens, and officers for your tribes.  
16 “Then I commanded your judges at that time, saying, ‘Hear the cases between your brethren, and ajudge righteously between a man and his bbrother or the stranger who is with him.  
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Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Book Notes

Deuteronomy

DEUTERONOMY, the second law, a title which plainly shows what is the object of this book, namely, a recapitulation of the law. It was given in the form of public addresses to the people; and as Moses spoke in the prospect of his speedy removal, he enforced obedience to it by many forcible appeals to the Israelites, concerning their long and varied experience both of the mercies and the judgments of God. The minute notices of the heathen people with whom they had come in contact, but who afterward disappeared from the pages of history, as well as the accounts of the fertility and products of Canaan, and the counsels respecting the conquest of that country, fix the date of this book and the time of its composition by the hand of Moses. The close, however, must have been added by another; and, indeed, it is supposed by some to have formed the original preface to the Book of Joshua.

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