Deuteronomy 1:18-20

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁸ So I charged you at that time with all the things that you should do.

Israel’s Refusal to Enter the Land

¹⁹ Then, just as the Lord our God had ordered us, we set out from Horeb and went through all that great and terrible wilderness that you saw, on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, until we reached Kadesh-barnea. ²⁰ I said to you, “You have reached the hill country of the Amorites, which the Lord our God is giving us.