²⁶‘And ye have not been willing to go up, and ye provoke the mouth of Jehovah your God, ²⁷and murmur in your tents, and say, In Jehovah’s hating us He hath brought us out of the land of Egypt, to give us into the hand of the Amorite—to destroy us; ²⁸whither are we going up? our brethren have melted our heart, saying, A people greater and taller than we, cities great and fenced to heaven, and also sons of Anakim—we have seen there.

²⁹‘And I say unto you, Be not terrified, nor be afraid of them; ³⁰Jehovah your God, who is going before you—He doth fight for you, according to all that He hath done with you in Egypt before your eyes, ³¹and in the wilderness, where thou hast seen that Jehovah thy God hath borne thee as a man beareth his son, in all the way which ye have gone, till your coming in unto this place.

³²‘And in this thing ye are not stedfast in Jehovah your God, ³³who is going before you in the way to search out to you a place for your encamping, in fire by night, to shew you in the way in which ye go, and in a cloud by day.

³⁴‘And Jehovah heareth the voice of your words, and is wroth, and sweareth, saying, ³⁵Not one of these men of this evil generation doth see the good land which I have sworn to give to your fathers, ³⁶save Caleb son of Jephunneh—he doth see it, and to him I give the land on which he hath trodden, and to his sons, because that he hath been fully after Jehovah.

³⁷‘Also with me hath Jehovah been angry for your sake, saying, Also, thou dost not go in thither; ³⁸Joshua son of Nun, who is standing before thee, he goeth in thither; him strengthen thou; for he doth cause Israel to inherit.

³⁹‘And your infants, of whom ye have said, For a prey they are, and your sons who have not known to-day good and evil, they go in thither, and to them I give it, and they possess it; ⁴⁰and ye, turn for yourselves, and journey toward the wilderness, the way of the Red Sea.

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