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30 Not one of you will enter the land I swore with uplifted hand to make your home, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
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30 Not one of you will enter the land I swore with uplifted hand to make your home, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
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31 As for your children that you said would be taken as plunder, I will bring them in to enjoy the land you have rejected.
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31 As for your children that you said would be taken as plunder, I will bring them in to enjoy the land you have rejected.
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32 But you--your bodies will fall in this desert.
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32 But you--your bodies will fall in this desert.
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33 Your children will be shepherds here for forty years, suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last of your bodies lies in the desert.
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33 Your children will be shepherds here for forty years, suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last of your bodies lies in the desert.
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34 For forty years--one year for each of the forty days you explored the land--you will suffer for your sins and know what it is like to have me against you.'
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34 For forty years--one year for each of the forty days you explored the land--you will suffer for your sins and know what it is like to have me against you.'
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35 I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will surely do these things to this whole wicked community, which has banded together against me. They will meet their end in this desert; here they will die."
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35 I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will surely do these things to this whole wicked community, which has banded together against me. They will meet their end in this desert; here they will die."
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36 So the men Moses had sent to explore the land, who returned and made the whole community grumble against him by spreading a bad report about it--
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36 So the men Moses had sent to explore the land, who returned and made the whole community grumble against him by spreading a bad report about it--
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37 these men responsible for spreading the bad report about the land were struck down and died of a plague before the LORD.
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37 these men responsible for spreading the bad report about the land were struck down and died of a plague before the LORD.
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38 Of the men who went to explore the land, only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh survived.
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38 Of the men who went to explore the land, only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh survived.
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39 When Moses reported this to all the Israelites, they mourned bitterly.
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39 When Moses reported this to all the Israelites, they mourned bitterly.
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40 Early the next morning they went up toward the high hill country. "We have sinned," they said. "We will go up to the place the LORD promised."
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40 Early the next morning they went up toward the high hill country. "We have sinned," they said. "We will go up to the place the LORD promised."
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