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Deuteronomy - ch 1 v 21 - 40
- 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.
- 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.
- And what you said seemed good to me, and I took twelve men from among you, one from every tribe;
- And they went up into the hill-country and came to the valley of Eshcol, and saw what was there.
- 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.
- But going against the order of the Lord your God, you would not go up:
- 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.
- 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.
- Then I said to you, Have no fear of them.
- The Lord your God who goes before you will be fighting for you, and will do such wonders as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;
- And in the waste land, where you have seen how the Lord was supporting you, as a man does his son, in all your journeying till you came to this place.
- But for all this, you had no faith in the Lord your God,
- Who goes before you on your way, looking for a place where you may put up your tents, in fire by night, lighting up the way you are to go, and in a cloud by day.
- And the Lord, hearing your words, was angry, and said with an oath,
- Truly, not one of this evil generation will see that good land which I said I would give to your fathers,
- But only Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, he will see it; and to him and to his children I will give the land over which his feet have gone, because he has been true to the Lord with all his heart.
- And, in addition, the Lord was angry with me because of you, saying, You yourself will not go into it:
- Joshua, the son of Nun, your servant, he will go into the land: say to him that he is to be strong, for he will be Israel's guide into their heritage.
- And your little ones, who, you said, would come into strange hands, your children, who now have no knowledge of good or evil, they will go into that land, and to them I will give it and it will be theirs.
- But as for you, go back, journeying into the waste land by the way of the Red Sea.
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