King James Version, Updated™

KJV:   1 These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.

KJVu: 1 These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel on this side of the Jordan in the wilderness, on the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.

KJV:   2 (There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadeshbarnea.)

KJVu: 2 (It is 11 days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir to Kadeshbarnea.)

KJV:   3 And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them ;

KJVu: 3 It came to pass in the 40th year, in the 11th month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spoke to the children of Israel, according to all that the LORD had given him in commandment to them ,

KJV:   4 After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei :

KJVu: 4 after he had killed Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei .

KJV:   5 On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying,

KJVu: 5 On this side of the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses began to declare this law, saying,

KJV:   6 The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount:

KJVu: 6 "The LORD our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying, 'YOU have dwelt long enough at this mountain;

KJV:   7 Turn YOU, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.

KJVu: 7 Turn and take YOUR journey, and go to the mountains of the Amorites, and to all the neighboring places there, in the plain, in the hills, and in the valley, and in the south, and by the seashore, to the land of the Canaanites, and to Lebanon, to the great river, the river Euphrates.

Notes:

KJV:   8 Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.

KJVu: 8 Behold, I have set the land before YOU; go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to YOUR fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give to them and to their descendants after them. '

KJV:   9 And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone :

KJVu: 9 "And I spoke to YOU at that time, saying, 'I am not able to bear YOU myself alone .

KJV:   10 The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

KJVu: 10 The LORD YOUR God has multiplied YOU, and, behold, YOU are this day as numerous as the stars of heaven.

Notes: "Multitude" highlighted in the KJV verse is Strong’s H7230 with a Strong’s definition of "greatnesses [great things], or numerous things of my law, but form dubious read perhaps."

KJV:   11 (The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)

KJVu: 11 (May the LORD God of YOUR fathers make YOU a thousand times as many as YOU are, and bless YOU, as he has promised YOU!)

KJV:   12 How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?

KJVu: 12 How can I myself alone bear YOUR trouble, and YOUR burden, and YOUR strife?

Notes: "Cumbrance" highlighted in the KJV verse is Strong’s H2960 with a Strong’s definition of "cumbrance, trouble."

KJV:   13 Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over YOU.

KJVu: 13 Take wise men, with understanding, and known among YOUR tribes, and I will make them rulers over YOU.'

KJV:   13 Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over YOU.

KJVu: 13 Take wise men, with understanding, and known among YOUR tribes, and I will make them rulers over YOU.'

KJV:   14 And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.

KJVu: 14 And YOU answered me, and said, "The thing which you have spoken is good for us to do. '

KJV:   15 So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.

KJVu: 15 So I took the rulers of YOUR tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over YOU, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among YOUR tribes.

Notes: "Chief" highlighted in the KJV verse is Strong’s H7218 with a Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance definition of "band, captain, company, -|- From an unused root apparently meaning to shake; the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.) — band, beginning, captain, chapiter, chief(-est place, man, things), company, end, X every (man), excellent, first, forefront, be-head, height, (on) high(-est part, (priest)), X lead, X poor, principal, ruler, sum, top."

KJV:   16 And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.

KJVu: 16 And I charged YOUR judges at that time, saying, "Hear the cases between YOUR brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the stranger who is with him.

KJV:   17 Ye shall not respect persons in judgment ; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man ; for the judgment is God’s : and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.

KJVu: 17 YOU shall not show partiality to persons in judgment , instead YOU shall hear the small as well as the great; YOU shall not be afraid of facing any man , for the judgment is God’s ; if the cause is too hard for YOU, bring it to me, and I will hear it.

Notes: "Respect" highlighted in the KJV verse is Strong’s H5234 with a Brown-Driver-Briggs' definition of "pay regard to (shew partiality, = ׳נָשָׂא מְּנֵי פ) Deuteronomy 1:17; Deuteronomy 16:19 ("" הִטָּה מִשְׁמָּט), Proverbs 24:23; Proverbs 28:21."

KJV:   18 And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do.

KJVu: 18 And I commanded YOU at that time all the things which YOU should do.

KJV:   19 And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadeshbarnea.

KJVu: 19 Then when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which YOU saw on the way to the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; we came to Kadeshbarnea.

KJV:   20 And I said unto YOU, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give unto us.

KJVu: 20 And I said to YOU, 'You have come to the mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God gives to us.

KJV:   21 Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged.

KJVu: 21 Behold, the LORD your God has set the land before you; go up and possess it, as the LORD God of your fathers has said to you; do not fear, neither be discouraged. '

KJV:   22 And ye came near unto me every one of YOU, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.

KJVu: 22 YOU came near to me every one of YOU, and said, 'We will send men before us, and they shall search out the land for us, and bring us back word of which way we must go up, and into which cities we shall come. '

KJV:   23 And the saying pleased me well : and I took twelve men of YOU, one of a tribe :

KJVu: 23 And the saying pleased me well ; so I took 12 men from YOU, one from each tribe ,

KJV:   24 And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out.

KJVu: 24 So they turned and went up into the mountain, and came to the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out.

KJV:   25 And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which the LORD our God doth give us.

KJVu: 25 They took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down to us, and brought back word, and said, 'It is a good land which the LORD our God gives us. '

KJV:   26 Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God :

KJVu: 26 Yet YOU would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God .

Notes: "Notwithstanding" highlighted in the KJV verse is defined by Thesaurus.com as "adverb as in although, however -|- Strong matches: nevertheless, nonetheless, withal yet."

KJV:   27 And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

KJVu: 27 And YOU murmured in YOUR tents, and said, 'Because the LORD hated us, he has brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

KJV:   28 Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.

KJVu: 28 Where shall we go up? Our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, "The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there. " '

KJV:   29 Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.

KJVu: 29 Then I said to YOU, "Do not dread, nor be afraid of them.

KJV:   30 The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes ;

KJVu: 30 The LORD YOUR God who goes before YOU, he shall fight for YOU, according to all that he did for YOU in Egypt before YOUR eyes ,

KJV:   31 And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.

KJVu: 31 and in the wilderness, where you have seen how that the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that YOU went, until YOU came into this place. '

KJV:   32 Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God,

KJVu: 32 Yet in this thing YOU did not believe the LORD YOUR God,

KJV:   33 Who went in the way before you, to search YOU out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day.

KJVu: 33 who went in the way before YOU, to search out a place to pitch YOUR tents, in fire by night, to show YOU by what way YOU should go, and in a cloud by day.

KJV:   34 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,

KJVu: 34 And the LORD heard the sound of YOUR words, and was angry, and swore, saying,

Notes: "Voice" highlighted in the KJV verse is Strong’s H6963 with a Strong’s definition of "sound, voice."

KJV:   35 Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers,

KJVu: 35 'Surely there shall not be one of these men of this evil generation that see the good land, which I swore to give to YOUR fathers,

KJV:   36 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed the LORD.

KJVu: 36 except Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he has walked on, and to his children, because he has wholly followed the LORD. '

KJV:   37 Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither.

KJVu: 37 Also the LORD was angry with me for YOUR sakes, saying, 'You also shall not go in there.

KJV:   38 But Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: encourage him : for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.

KJVu: 38 But Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall go in there; encourage him , for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.

KJV:   39 Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.

KJVu: 39 Moreover YOUR little ones, who YOU said would become prey, and YOUR children, who in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in there, and to them will I give it, and they shall possess it.

KJV:   40 But as for you, turn YOU, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.

KJVu: 40 But as for YOU, turn and take YOUR journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea. '

KJV:   41 Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the LORD , we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill.

KJVu: 41 Then YOU answered and said to me, 'We have sinned against the LORD ; we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded us. ' And when every man put on his weapons of war, YOU were ready to go up into the mountan.

KJV:   42 And the LORD said unto me, Say unto them, Go not up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies.

KJVu: 42 And the LORD said to me, 'Say to them, "Do not go up, or fight; for I am not among YOU; lest YOU are defeated before YOUR enemies. " '

Notes: "Smitten" highlighted in the KJV verse is Strong’s H5062 with a Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance definition of "beat, dash, hurt, plague, slay, smite down, strike, stumble, -|- A primitive root; to push, gore, defeat, stub (the toe), inflict (a disease) — beat, dash, hurt, plague, slay, smite (down), strike, stumble, X surely, put to the worse."

KJV:   43 So I spake unto YOU; and ye would not hear, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD, and went presumptuously up into the hill.

KJVu: 43 So I spoke to YOU; but YOU would not listen, and rebelled against the commandment of the LORD, and went presumptuously up into the mountain.

KJV:   44 And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed YOU in Seir, even unto Hormah.

KJVu: 44 The Amorites, who dwelt in that mountain, came out against YOU, and chased YOU, as bees do, and beat YOU down in Seir, even to Hormah.

Notes: "Destroyed" highlighted in the KJV verse is Strong’s H3807 with a Strong’s definition of "To crush, to break, to beat down, to shatter."

KJV:   45 And ye returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you.

KJVu: 45 And YOU returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD would not listen to YOUR voice, nor give ear to YOU.

KJV:   46 So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode there.

KJVu: 46 So YOU remained in Kadesh many days, according to the days that YOU remained there.