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For they left the way of their ancestors and worshiped the God of heaven, the God whom they knew. So they cast them out from the face of their gods, and they fled into Mesopotamia, and sojourned there many days.
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Then their God commanded them to depart from the place where they sojourned, and to go into the land of Canaan, where they dwelt, and were increased with gold and silver and with very much cattle.
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"But when a famine covered all the land of Canaan, they went down into Egypt and sojourned there while they were nourished, and became there a great multitude, so that one could not number their nation.
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Therefore the king of Egypt rose up against them, and dealt craftily with them, and brought them low with laboring in brick, and made them slaves.
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Then they cried unto their God, and He smote all the land of Egypt with incurable plagues. So the Egyptians cast them out of their sight.
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And God dried the Red Sea before them,
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and brought them to Mount Sinai and Kadesh-Barnea, and cast forth all who dwelt in the wilderness.
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So they dwelt in the land of the Amorites, and they destroyed by their strength all them of Heshbon and, passing over the Jordan, they possessed all the hill country.
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And they cast forth before them the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Shechemite, and all the Gergesites; and they dwelt in that country many days.
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"And whilst they sinned not before their God they prospered, because the God who hateth iniquity was with them.
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But when they departed from the way which He appointed them, they were destroyed in many battles very sore, and were led captives into a land that was not theirs, and the temple of their God was cast to the ground, and their cities were taken by the enemies.