Chapter 1
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And you refused to go up and rebelled against the mouth of the LORD your God.
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And you murmured in your tents and said, "Because the LORD hates us, he brought us out from the land of Egypt to give us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us."
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Where shall we go up? Our brothers made our heart melt, saying, "A great and tall people, greater than us; great cities fortified up to the heavens; and also we saw the sons of Anakim there."
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And I said to you, "Do not be terrified, and do not fear them."
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The LORD your God, who goes before you, he will fight for you just as he fought for you in Egypt before your eyes.
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and in the wilderness, which you saw, where the LORD your God bore you, as a man bears his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place.
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And in this matter you were not believing the LORD your God.
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the one walking before you in the way to scout for you a place for your encamping, in fire at night to let you see in the way which you will walk in it and in cloud by day.
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And the LORD heard the voice of your words and was angry and swore, saying:
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If a man has seen among these men, in this evil generation, the good earth which I swore to give to your fathers.
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This Caleb son of Yiphtah will see it, and to him I will give the land which he walked in it and to his sons because he filled after the LORD.
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Also against me the LORD was angry on account of you, saying, "You also will not enter there."
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Joshua son of Nun, who stands before you—he will go there. Strengthen him, for he will cause Israel to inherit it.
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And your little ones, whom you said would be plunder—they will be, and your sons who do not yet know good and evil, they will enter there, and to them I will grant it, and they will possess it as inheritance.
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And you, turn and journey into the wilderness by the way of the Sea of Reeds.
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And you answered and said to me, "We have sinned against the LORD. We will go up and fight just as the LORD our God commanded us." And you each girded on his warfare gear and set out to go up the mountain.
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And the LORD said to me, "Say to them, 'Do not go up and do not fight, for I am not in your midst, and you will not be struck down before your enemies.'"
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And I spoke to you, but you did not hear. You rebelled against the mouth of the LORD, acted presumptuously, and went up the mountain.
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And the Amorite who dwells in that mountain went out to meet you and pursued you just as bees do and struck you down in Seir as far as Hormah.
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And you sat down and wept before the LORD, but the LORD did not hear your voice or give ear to you.
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And you dwelt in Kadesh many days, like the days that you dwelt.