text: THE HOLY BIBLE Douay-Rheims: de 1-3
  1:1¤ These are the words, which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan, in the plain wilderness, over against the Red Sea, between Pharan and Thophel and Laban and Haseroth, where there is very much gold.
  1:2Eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir to Cadesbarne.
  1:3In the fortieth year, the eleventh month, the first day of the month, Moses spoke to the children of Israel all that the Lord had commanded him to say to them:
  1:4After that he had slain Sehon king of the Amorrhites, who dwelt in Hesebon: and Og king of Basan who abode in Astaroth, and in Edrai,
  1:5Beyond the Jordan in the land of Moab. And Moses began to expound the law, and to say:
  1:6The Lord our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying: You have stayed long enough in this mountain:
  1:7Turn you, and come to the mountain of the Amorrhites, and to the other places that are next to it, the plains and the hills and the vales towards the south, and by the sea shore, the land of the Chanaanites, and of Libanus, as far as the great river Euphrates.
  1:8Behold, said he, I have delivered it to you: go in and possess it, concerning which the Lord swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that he would give it to them, and to their seed after them.
  1:9And I said to you at that time:
  1:10I alone am not able to bear you: for the Lord your God hath multiplied you, and you are this day as the stars of heaven, for multitude.
  1:11(The Lord God of your fathers add to this number many thousands, and bless you as he hath spoken.)
  1:12I alone am not able to bear your business, and the charge of you and your differences.
  1:13Let me have from among you wise and understanding men, and such whose conversation is approved among your tribes, that I may appoint them your rulers.
  1:14Then you answered me: The thing is good which thou meanest to do.
  1:15And I took out of your tribes men wise and honourable, and appointed them rulers, tribunes, and centurions, and officers over fifties, and over tens, who might teach you all things.
  1:16And I commanded them, saying: Hear them, and judge that which is just: whether he be one of your country, or a stranger.
  1:17There shall be no difference of persons, you shall hear the little as well as the great: neither shall you respect any man's person, because it is the judgment of God. And if any thing seem hard to you, refer it to me, and I will hear it.
  1:18And I commanded you all things that you were to do.
  1:19And departing from Horeb, we passed through the terrible and vast wilderness, which you saw, by the way of the mountain of the Amorrhite, as the Lord our God had commanded us. And when we were come into Cadesbarne,
  1:20I said to you: You are come to the mountain of the Amorrhite, which the Lord our God will give to us.
  1:21See the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee: go up and possess it, as the Lord our God hath spoken to thy fathers: fear not, nor be any way discouraged.
  1:22And you came all to me, and said: Let us send men who may view the land, and bring us word what way we shall go up, and to what cities we shall go.
  1:23And because the saying pleased me, I sent of you twelve men, one of every tribe:
  1:24Who, when they had set forward and had gone up to the mountains, came as far as the valley of the cluster: and having viewed the land,
  1:25Taking of the fruits thereof, to shew its fertility, they brought them to us, and said: The land is good, which the Lord our God will give us.
  1:26And you would not go up, but being incredulous to the word of the Lord our God,
  1:27You murmured in your tents, and said: The Lord hateth us, and therefore he hath brought us out of the land of Egypt, that he might deliver us into the hand of the Amorrhite, and destroy us.
  1:28Whither shall we go up? the messengers have terrified our hearts, saying: The multitude is very great, and taller than we: the cities are great, and walled up to the sky, we have seen the sons of the Enacims there.
  1:29And I said to you: Fear not, neither be ye afraid of them:
  1:30The Lord God, who is your leader, himself will fight for you, as he did in Egypt in the sight of all.
  1:31And in the wilderness (as thou hast seen) the Lord thy God hath carried thee, as a man is wont to carry his little son, all the way that you have come, until you came to this place.
  1:32And yet for all this you did not believe the Lord your God,
  1:33Who went before you in the way, and marked out the place, wherein you should pitch your tents, in the night shewing you the way by fire, and in the day by the pillar of a cloud.
  1:34And when the Lord had heard the voice of your words, he was angry and swore, and said:
  1:35Not one of the men of this wicked generation shall see the good land, which I promised with an oath to your fathers:
  1:36Except Caleb the son of Jephone: for he shall see it, and to him I will give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath followed the Lord.
  1:37Neither is his indignation against the people to be wondered at, since the Lord was angry with me also on your account, and said: Neither shalt thou go in thither.
  1:38But Josue the son of Nun, thy minister, he shall go in for thee: exhort and encourage him, and he shall divide the land by lot to Israel.
  1:39Your children, of whom you said that they should be led away captives, and your sons who know not this day the difference of good and evil, they shall go in: and to them I will give the land, and they shall possess it.
  1:40But return you and go into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.
  1:41And you answered me: We have sinned against the Lord: we will go up and fight, as the Lord our God hath commanded. And when you went ready armed unto the mountain,
  1:42The Lord said to me: Say to them: Go not up, and fight not, for I am not with you: lest you fall before your enemies.
  1:43I spoke, and you hearkened not: but resisting the commandment of the Lord, and swelling with pride, you went up into the mountain.
  1:44And the Amorrhite that dwelt in the mountains coming out, and meeting you, chased you, as bees do: and made slaughter of you from Seir as far as Horma.
  1:45And when you returned and wept before the Lord, he heard you not, neither would he yield to your voice.
  1:46So you abode in Cadesbarne a long time.
  2:1¤ And departing from thence we came into the wilderness that leadeth to the Red Sea, as the Lord had spoken to me: and we compassed mount Seir a long time.
  2:2And the Lord said to me:
  2:3You have compassed this mountain long enough: go toward the north:
  2:4And command thou the people, saying: You shall pass by the borders of your brethren the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, and they will be afraid of you.
  2:5Take ye then good heed that you stir not against them. For I will not give you of their land so much as the step of one foot can tread upon, because I have given mount Seir to Esau, for a possession.
  2:6You shall buy meats of them for money and shall eat: you shall draw waters for money, and shall drink.
  2:7The Lord thy God hath blessed thee in every work of thy hands: the Lord thy God dwelling with thee, knoweth thy journey, how thou hast passed through this great wilderness, for forty years, and thou hast wanted nothing.
  2:8And when we had passed by our brethren the children of Esau, that dwelt in Seir, by the way of the plain from Elath and from Asiongaber, we came to the way that leadeth to the desert of Moab.
  2:9And the Lord said to me: Fight not against the Moabites, neither go to battle against them: for I will not give thee any of their land, because I have given Ar to the children of Lot in possession.
  2:10The Emims first were the inhabitants thereof, a people great, and strong, and so tall, that like the race of the Enacims,
  2:11They were esteemed as giants, and were like the sons of the Enacims. But the Moabites call them Emims.
  2:12The Horrhites also formerly dwelt in Seir: who being driven out and destroyed, the children of Esau dwelt there, as Israel did in the land of his possession, which the Lord gave him.
  2:13Then rising up to pass the torrent Zared, we came to it.
  2:14And the time that we journeyed from Cadesbarne till we passed over the torrent Zared, was thirty-eight years: until all the generation of the men that were fit for war was consumed out of the camp, as the Lord had sworn:
  2:15For his hand was against them, that they should perish from the midst of the camp.
  2:16And after all the fighting men were dead,
  2:17The Lord spoke to me, saying:
  2:18Thou shalt pass this day the borders of Moab, the city named Ar:
  2:19And when thou comest nigh the frontiers of the children of Ammon, take heed thou fight not against them, nor once move to battle: for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon, because I have given it to the children of Lot for a possession.
  2:20It was accounted a land of giants: and giants formerly dwelt in it, whom the Ammonites call Zomzommims,
  2:21A people great and many, and of tall stature, like the Enacims whom the Lord destroyed before their face: and he made them to dwell in their stead,
  2:22As he had done in favour of the children of Esau, that dwell in Seir, destroying the Horrhites, and delivering their land to them, which they possess to this day.
  2:23The Hevites also, that dwelt in Haserim as far as Gaza, were expelled by the Cappadocians: who came out of Cappadocia, and destroyed them and dwelt in their stead.
  2:24Arise ye, and pass the torrent Arnon: Behold I have delivered into thy hand Sehon king of Hesebon the Amorrhite, and begin thou to possess his land and make war against him.
  2:25This day will I begin to send the dread and fear of thee upon the nations that dwell under the whole heaven: that when they hear thy name they may fear and tremble, and be in pain like women in travail.
  2:26So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Cademoth to Sehon the king of Hesebon with peaceable words, saying:
  2:27We will pass through thy land, we will go along by the highway: we will not turn aside neither to the right hand nor to the left.
  2:28Sell us meat for money, that we may eat: give us water for money and so we will drink. We only ask that thou wilt let us pass through,
  2:29As the children of Esau have done, that dwell in Seir, and the Moabites, that abide in Ar: until we come to the Jordan, and pass to the land which the Lord our God will give us.
  2:30And Sehon the king of Hesebon would not let us pass: because the Lord thy God had hardened his spirit, and fixed his heart, that he might be delivered into thy hands, as now thou seest.
  2:31And the Lord said to me: Behold I have begun to deliver unto thee Sehon and his land, begin to possess it.
  2:32And Sehon came out to meet us with all his people to fight at Jasa.
  2:33And the Lord our God delivered him to us: and we slew him with his sons and all his people.
  2:34And we took all his cities at that time, killing the inhabitants of them, men and women and children. We left nothing of them:
  2:35Except the cattle which came to the share of them that took them: and the spoils of the cities, which we took:
  2:36From Aroer, which is upon the bank of the torrent Arnon, a town that is situate in a valley, as far as Galaad. There was not a village or city, that escaped our hands: the Lord our God delivered all unto us:
  2:37Except the land of the children of Ammon, to which we approached not: and all that border upon the torrent Jeboc, and the cities in the mountains, and all the places which the Lord our God forbade us.
  3:1¤ Then we turned and went by the way of Basan: and Og the king of Basan came out to meet us with his people to fight in Edrai.
  3:2And the Lord said to me: Fear him not: because he is delivered into thy hand, with all his people and his land: and thou shalt do to him as thou hast done to Sehon king of the Amorrhites, that dwelt in Hesebon.
  3:3So the Lord our God delivered into our hands, Og also, the king of Basan, and all his people: and we utterly destroyed them,
  3:4Wasting all his cities at one time, there was not a town that escaped us: sixty cities, all the country of Argob the kingdom of Og in Basan.
  3:5All the cities were fenced with very high walls, and with gates and bars, besides innumerable towns that had no walls.
  3:6And we utterly destroyed them, as we had done to Sehon the king of Hesebon, destroying every city, men and women and children:
  3:7But the cattle and the spoils of the cities we took for our prey.
  3:8And we took at that time the land out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorrhites, that were beyond the Jordan: from the torrent Arnon unto the mount Hermon,
  3:9Which the Sidonians call Sarion, and the Amorrhites Sanir:
  3:10All the cities that are situate in the plain, and all the land of Galaad and Basan as far as Selcha and Edrai, cities of the kingdom of Og in Basan.
  3:11For only Og king of Basan remained of the race of the giants. His bed of iron is shewn, which is in Rabbath of the children of Ammon, being nine cubits long, and four broad after the measure of the cubit of a man's hand.
  3:12And we possessed the land at that time from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the torrent Arnon, unto the half of mount Galaad: and I gave the cities thereof to Ruben and Gad.
  3:13And I delivered the other part of Galaad, and all Basan the kingdom of Og to the half tribe of Manasses, all the country of Argob: and all Basan is called the Land of giants.
  3:14Jair the son of Manasses possessed all the country of Argob unto the borders of Gessuri, and Machati. And he called Basan by his own name, Havoth Jair, that is to say, the towns of Jair, until this present day.
  3:15To Machir also I gave Galaad.
  3:16And to the tribes of Ruben and Gad I gave of the land of Galaad as far as the torrent Arnon, half the torrent, and the confines even unto the torrent Jeboc, which is the border of the children of Ammon:
  3:17And the plain of the wilderness, and the Jordan, and the borders of Cenereth unto the sea of the desert, which is the most salt sea, to the foot of mount Phasga eastward.
  3:18And I commanded you at that time, saying: The Lord your God giveth you this land for an inheritance, go ye well appointed before your brethren the children of Israel, all the strong men of you.
  3:19Leaving your wives and children and cattle. For I know you have much cattle, and they must remain in the cities, which I have delivered to you.
  3:20Until the Lord give rest to your brethren, as he hath given to you: and they also possess the land, which he will give them beyond the Jordan: then shall every man return to his possession, which I have given you.
  3:21I commanded Josue also at that time, saying: Thy eyes have seen what the Lord your God hath done to these two kings: so will he do to all the kingdoms to which thou shalt pass.
  3:22Fear them not: for the Lord your God will fight for you.
  3:23And I besought the Lord at that time, saying:
  3:24Lord God, thou hast begun to shew unto thy servant thy greatness, and most mighty hand, for there is no other God either in heaven or earth, that is able to do thy works, or to be compared to thy strength.
  3:25I will pass over therefore, and will see this excellent land beyond the Jordan, and this goodly mountain, and Libanus.
  3:26And the Lord was angry with me on your account and heard me not, but said to me: It is enough: speak no more to me of this matter.
  3:27Go up to the top of Phasga, and cast thy eyes round about to the west, and to the north, and to the south, and to the east, and behold it, for thou shalt not pass this Jordan.
  3:28Command Josue, and encourage and strengthen him: for he shall go before this people, and shall divide unto them the land which thou shalt see.