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1You gave them bread from heaven for their hunger and
2brought water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and you
3told them to go in to possess the land that you had sworn to give them.
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"But they and our fathers
4acted presumptuously and stiffened their neck and did not obey your commandments.
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They refused to obey
5and were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them, but they stiffened their neck and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a God ready to forgive,
6gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and did not forsake them.
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Even
7when they had made for themselves a golden calf and said, 'This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,'
8and had committed great blasphemies,
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you
9in your great mercies did not forsake them in the wilderness.
10The pillar of cloud to lead them in the way did not depart from them by day,
11nor the pillar of fire by night to light for them the way by which they should go.
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12You gave your good Spirit to instruct them
13and did not withhold your manna from their mouth and gave them water for their thirst.
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14Forty years you sustained them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.
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"And you gave them kingdoms and peoples and allotted to them every corner.
15So they took possession of the land of Sihon king of Heshbon
16and the land of Og king of Bashan.
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You multiplied their children
17as the stars of heaven, and you brought them into the land that you had told their fathers to enter and possess.
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18So the descendants went in and possessed the land,
19and you subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hand, with their kings and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they would.
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And they captured
20fortified cities and
21a rich land, and took possession of
22houses full of all good things, cisterns already hewn, vineyards, olive orchards and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were filled
23and became fat and delighted themselves in
24your great goodness.