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"But speak to them and say, Thus says the Lord:
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Surely it was I who brought you through the sea, and made safe highways for you where there was no road; I gave you Moses as leader and Aaron as priest;
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I provided light for you from a pillar of fire, and did great wonders among you. Yet you have forgotten me, says the Lord.
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"Thus says the Lord Almighty: The quails were a sign to you; I gave you camps for your protection, and in them you complained.
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You have not exulted in my name at the destruction of your enemies, but to this day you still complain.
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Where are the benefits which I bestowed on you? When you were hungry and thirsty in the wilderness, did you not cry out to me,
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saying, `Why hast thou led us into this wilderness to kill us? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in this wilderness.'
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I pitied your groanings and gave you manna for food; you ate the bread of angels.
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When you were thirsty, did I not cleave the rock so that waters flowed in abundance? Because of the heat I covered you with the leaves of trees.
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I divided fertile lands among you; I drove out the Canaanites, the Perizzites, and the Philistines before you. What more can I do for you? says the Lord.
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Thus says the Lord Almighty: When you were in the wilderness, at the bitter stream, thirsty and blaspheming my name,