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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.
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But now have they returned to their God, and have come up from the places where they were scattered, and have possessed Jerusalem where their sanctuary is, and are settled in the hill country, for it was desolate.
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Now therefore, my lord and governor, if there be any error in this people, and they sin against their God, let us consider that this shall be their ruin; and let us go up, and we shall overcome them.
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But if there be no iniquity in their nation, let my lord now pass by, lest their Lord defend them and their God be for them, and we become a reproach before all the world."