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Deuteronomy 1:16 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" I 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. "

Deuteronomy 1:16

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

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

16 I 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.

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. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.”

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

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Deuteronomy 1:1

"These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suf, between Paran, Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab."

Deuteronomy 1:2

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

Deuteronomy 1:3

"In the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, Moses spoke to the children of Israel according to all that the LORD had given him in commandment to them,"

Deuteronomy 1:4

"after 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."

Deuteronomy 1:5

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

Deuteronomy 1:6

"“The LORD our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying, ‘You have lived long enough at this mountain."

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