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And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
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How long shall I hear this evil congregation, which murmurs against me, the complaints of the sons of Israel, which they murmur against me?
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Say unto them,
As truly as I live, saith the LORD, according as ye have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you.
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Your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness, all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me;
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doubtless ye shall not come into the land,
concerning which I swore to make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.
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But your little ones, whom ye said should be a prey, I will bring them in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.
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But
as for you, your carcasses, they shall fall in this wilderness.
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And your children shall be shepherded in the wilderness forty years and bear your fornications until your carcasses are wasted in the wilderness.
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After the number of the days in which ye spied out the land,
even forty days, each day for a year, ye shall bear your iniquities forty years, and ye shall know my reason
for annulling my promise.
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I, the LORD, have spoken, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation that are gathered together against me; in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
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And the men, whom Moses had sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation to murmur against him by bringing up a slander upon the land,
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even those men that brought an evil report of the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
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But Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, remained alive of the men that went to spy out the land.
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And Moses told these things unto all the sons of Israel, and the people mourned greatly.
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And they rose up early in the morning and climbed up into the top of the mountain, saying, Here we are
prepared to go up unto the place of which the LORD has spoken; for we have sinned.
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And Moses said, Why do ye break the commandment of the LORD? This also shall not prosper.
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Do not go up, for the LORD
is not among you; do not be smitten before your enemies.
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For the Amalekite and the Canaanite
are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword; because ye are turned away from following the LORD, therefore, the LORD will not be with you.
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But they presumed to go up unto the hill top; nevertheless, the ark of the covenant of the LORD and Moses, did not depart out of the camp.
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Then the Amalekite came down and the Canaanite who dwelt in that hill and smote them and defeated them,
pursuing them unto Hormah.