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If the LORDdelight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
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Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence[a] is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.
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But all the congregationbadestone them with stones. And the glory of the LORDappeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.
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And the LORDsaid unto Moses, How long will this peopleprovoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewedamong them?
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I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greaternation and mightier than they.
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And Mosessaid unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;)
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And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that thou LORD art among this people, that thou LORD art seenface to face, and that thy cloudstandeth over them, and that thou goestbefore them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.
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Now if thou shalt kill all this people as oneman, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
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Because the LORD was notable to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.
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And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,
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The LORD is longsuffering*, and of greatmercy,forgivinginiquity and transgression, and by no meansclearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
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Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
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And the LORDsaid, I have pardoned according to thy word:
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But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD.
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Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted* me now these tentimes, and have not hearkened to my voice;
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Surely they shall notsee the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
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But my servantCaleb,because he had anotherspirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.
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(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanitesdwelt in the valley.) To morrowturn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Redsea.
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And the LORDspake unto Moses and unto Aaron,saying,
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How long shall I bear with this evilcongregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
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Say unto them, As truly as I live,saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you: