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Deuteronomy 1:29

Then I said to you, Have no fear of them.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Faith;   Reproof;   Scofield Reference Index - Israel;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Blessing;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Sign;   Wrath, Wrath of God;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Moses;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Then I said to you, Don't dread, neither be afraid of them.
King James Version
Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.
Lexham English Bible
"And so I said to you, ‘Do not be terrified, and do not fear them.
English Standard Version
Then I said to you, ‘Do not be in dread or afraid of them.
New Century Version
Then I said to you, "Don't be frightened; don't be afraid of those people.
New English Translation
So I responded to you, "Do not be terrified of them!
Amplified Bible
"Then I said to you, 'Do not be shocked, nor fear them.
New American Standard Bible
"But I said to you, 'Do not be terrified, nor fear them.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But I sayd vnto you, Dread not, nor be afrayd of them.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then I said to you, ‘Do not be in dread, nor fear them.
Contemporary English Version
Then I said, "Don't worry!
Complete Jewish Bible
"I answered you, ‘Don't be fearful, don't be afraid of them.
Darby Translation
And I said unto you, Be not afraid, neither fear them;
Easy-to-Read Version
"So I said to you, ‘Don't be upset or afraid of those people.
George Lamsa Translation
Then I said to you, Fear not, neither tremble of them.
Good News Translation
"But I told you, ‘Don't be afraid of those people.
Christian Standard Bible®
“So I said to you: Don’t be terrified or afraid of them!
Literal Translation
And I said to you, do not be terrified; nor be afraid of them;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But I sayde vnto you: Feare not, and be not afrayed of them:
American Standard Version
Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then I sayde vnto you: Dreade not, nor be afraide of them.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then I said unto you: 'Dread not, neither be afraid of them.
King James Version (1611)
Then I said vnto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I said to you, Fear not, neither be ye afraid of them;
English Revised Version
Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.
Berean Standard Bible
So I said to you: "Do not be terrified or afraid of them!
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y seide to you, `Nyle ye drede `with ynne, nether `drede withoutforth; the Lord God hym silf,
Young's Literal Translation
`And I say unto you, Be not terrified, nor be afraid of them;
Update Bible Version
Then I said to you, Don't dread, neither be afraid of them.
Webster's Bible Translation
Then I said to you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.
World English Bible
Then I said to you, Don't dread, neither be afraid of them.
New King James Version
"Then I said to you, "Do not be terrified, or afraid of them.
New Living Translation
"But I said to you, ‘Don't be shocked or afraid of them!
New Life Bible
Then I said to you, ‘Do not be afraid of them.
New Revised Standard
I said to you, "Have no dread or fear of them.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then I said unto you, - Ye must not tremble, nor be afraid of them:
Douay-Rheims Bible
And I said to you: Fear not, neither be ye afraid of them:
Revised Standard Version
Then I said to you, 'Do not be in dread or afraid of them.
THE MESSAGE
I tried to relieve your fears: "Don't be terrified of them. God , your God, is leading the way; he's fighting for you. You saw with your own eyes what he did for you in Egypt; you saw what he did in the wilderness, how God , your God, carried you as a father carries his child, carried you the whole way until you arrived here. But now that you're here, you won't trust God , your God—this same God who goes ahead of you in your travels to scout out a place to pitch camp, a fire by night and a cloud by day to show you the way to go."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Then I said to you, 'Do not be shocked, nor fear them.

Contextual Overview

19 Then we went on from Horeb, through all that great and cruel waste which you saw, on our way to the hill-country of the Amorites, as the Lord gave us orders; and we came to Kadesh-barnea. 20 And I said to you, You have come to the hill-country of the Amorites, which the Lord our God is giving us. 21 See now, the Lord your God has put the land into your hands: go up and take it, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has said to you; have no fear and do not be troubled. 22 And you came near to me, every one of you, and said, Let us send men before us to go through the land with care and give us an account of the way we are to go and the towns to which we will come. 23 And what you said seemed good to me, and I took twelve men from among you, one from every tribe; 24 And they went up into the hill-country and came to the valley of Eshcol, and saw what was there. 25 And taking in their hands some of the fruit of the land, they came down again to us, and gave us their account, saying, It is a good land which the Lord our God is giving us. 26 But going against the order of the Lord your God, you would not go up: 27 And you made an angry outcry in your tents, and said, In his hate for us the Lord has taken us out of the land of Egypt, to give us up into the hands of the Amorites for our destruction. 28 Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our hearts feeble with fear by saying, The people are greater and taller than we are, and the towns are great and walled up to heaven; and more than this, we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 1:21

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 7:18 - shalt not Deuteronomy 31:6 - fear not 2 Chronicles 20:15 - Be not afraid Nehemiah 4:14 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 1:14
And God said, Let there be lights in the arch of heaven, for a division between the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for marking the changes of the year, and for days and for years:
Genesis 1:15
And let them be for lights in the arch of heaven to give light on the earth: and it was so.
Genesis 1:16
And God made the two great lights: the greater light to be the ruler of the day, and the smaller light to be the ruler of the night: and he made the stars.
Genesis 1:24
And God said, Let the earth give birth to all sorts of living things, cattle and all things moving on the earth, and beasts of the earth after their sort: and it was so.
Genesis 1:25
And God made the beast of the earth after its sort, and the cattle after their sort, and everything moving on the face of the earth after its sort: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:26
And God said, Let us make man in our image, like us: and let him have rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every living thing which goes flat on the earth.
Genesis 1:27
And God made man in his image, in the image of God he made him: male and female he made them.
Genesis 1:28
And God gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase, and make the earth full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the earth.
Genesis 2:16
And the Lord God gave the man orders, saying, You may freely take of the fruit of every tree of the garden:
Genesis 9:3
Every living and moving thing will be food for you; I give them all to you as before I gave you all green things.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then I said unto you, dread not, neither be afraid of them. With such like words he had exhorted and encouraged them before the spies were sent, and he still uses the same, or stronger terms, notwithstanding the report that had been made of the gigantic stature and walled cities of the Canaanites. This speech of Moses, which is continued in the two following verses, is not recorded in Numbers 14:5, it is only there said, that Moses and Aaron fell on their faces, but no account is given of what was said by either of them.


 
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