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"Then we set out from Horeb, and went through all that great and terriblewildernesswhich you saw on the way to the hillcountry of the Amorites, just as the LORD our God had commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.
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'See, the LORD your God has placed the landbefore you; go up, takepossession, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has spoken to you. Do not fear or be dismayed.'
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"Then all of you approached me and said, 'Let us sendmenbefore us, that they may search out the land for us, and bringback to us word of the way by which we should go up and the citieswhich we shall enter.'
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"Then they took some of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us; and they brought us back a report and said, 'It is a goodlandwhich the LORD our God is about to give us.'
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and you grumbled in your tents and said, 'Because the LORDhates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us.
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'Where can we go up? Our brethren have made our heartsmelt, saying, "The people are bigger and tallerthan we; the cities are large and fortified to heaven. And besides, we saw the sons of the Anakimthere."'
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and in the wildernesswhere you sawhow the LORD your Godcarried you, just as a mancarries his son, in all the waywhich you have walkeduntil you came to thisplace.'
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who goesbefore you on your way, to seek out a place for you to encamp, in fire by night and cloud by day, to show you the way in which you should go.
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exceptCaleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him and to his sons I will give the land on which he has setfoot, because* he has followed the LORDfully.'
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'Moreover, your littleoneswho you said would become a prey, and your sons, who this dayhavenoknowledge of good or evil, shall enterthere, and I will give it to them and they shall possess it.