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The God of heaven opened the sea to them in their flight, so that the waters were made to stand firm as a wall on either side, and they walked through the bottom of the sea and passed it dry foot.
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And when an innumerable army of the Egyptians pursued after them in that place, they were so overwhelmed with the waters, that there was not one left, to tell what had happened to posterity.
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And after they came out of the Red Sea, they abode in the deserts of mount Sina, in which never man could dwell, or son of man rested.
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There bitter fountains were made sweet for them to drink, and for forty years they received food from heaven.
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Wheresoever they went in without bow and arrow, and without shield and sword, their God fought for them and overcame.
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And there was no one that triumphed over this people, but when they departed from the worship of the Lord their God.
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But as often as beside their own God, they worshipped any other, they were given to spoil, and to the sword, and to reproach.
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And as often as they were penitent for having revolted from the worship of their God, the God of heaven gave them power to resist.
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So they overthrew the king of the Chanaanites, and of the Jebusites, and of the Pherezites, and of the Hethites, and of the Hevites, and of the Amorrhites, and all the mighty ones in Hesebon, and they possessed their lands, and their cities:
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And as long as they sinned not in the sight of their God, it was well with them: for their God hateth iniquity.
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And even some years ago when they had revolted from the way which God had given them to walk therein, they were destroyed in battles by many nations, and very many of them were led away captive into a strange land.