your

Turne you, and take your iourney, and goe to the mount of the Amorites, and vnto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plaine, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the South, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and vnto Lebanon, vnto the great riuer, the riuer Euphrates.

1611 marginal noteHebr. all his neighbours.

Behold, I haue set the land before you: Goe in, and possesse the land, which the LORD sware vnto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Iacob, to giue vnto them, and to their seed after them.

1611 marginal noteHebr. giuen.

1611 marginal noteGene. 15.18. and 17.7,8.

The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and beholde, you are this day as the starres of heauen for multitude.

(The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many moe as ye are, and blesse you as he hath promised you.)

How can I my selfe alone beare your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?

Take ye wise men, and vnderstanding, and knowen among your tribes, and I will make them rulers ouer you.

1611 marginal noteHeb. giue.

So I tooke the chiefe of your tribes, wise men, and knowen, and made them heads ouer you, captaines ouer thousands, and captaines ouer hundreds, and captaines ouer fifties, and captaines ouer tennes, and officers among your tribes.

1611 marginal noteHeb. gaue.

And I charged your Iudges at that time, saying, Heare the causes betweene your brethren, and iudge righteously betweene euery man and his brother, & the stranger that is with him.

1611 marginal noteIoh. 7.24.

Notwithstanding, ye would not goe vp, but rebelled against the commandement of the LORD your God.

And ye murmured in your tents and said, Because the LORD hated vs, he hath brought vs forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliuer vs into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy vs: