Deuteronomy 1:40-42

New American Standard Bible 1995

⁴⁰ But as for you, ^(A)turn around and set out for the wilderness by the way to the ^[a]Red Sea.’

⁴¹ “^(B)Then you said to me, ‘We have sinned against the Lord; we will indeed go up and fight, just as the Lord our God commanded us.’ And every man of you girded on his weapons of war, and regarded it as easy to go up into the hill country. ^42 (C)And the Lord said to me, ‘Say to them, “Do not go up nor fight, for I am not among you; otherwise you will be ^[b]defeated before your enemies.”’