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Deuteronomy 1 📜 📕 ↷
21 See the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee: go up and possess it, as the Lord our God hath spoken to thy fathers: fear not, neither dread you any thing.📜💬📚
22 And you came all unto me, and said: Let us send men that may view the Land, and may bring us word what way we shall ascend, and to what cities to go.📜💬📚
23 And because the saying pleased me, I sent of you twelve men, one of every tribe.📜💬📚
24 Who when they had gone, and were ascended into the mountains, they came as far as the Valley of cluster: and the Land being viewed,📜💬📚
25 taking of the fruits thereof, to shew the fruitfulness, they brought unto us, and said: The Land is good, which the Lord our God will give us.📜💬📚
Israel's Rebellion
26 And you would not go up, but being incredulous at the word of the Lord our God,📜💬📚
27 you murmured in your tabernacles, and said: our Lord hateth us, and therefore hath brought us out of the Land of AEgypt, that he might deliver us into the hand of the Amorrhite, and destroy us.📜💬📚
28 Whither shall we go up? The messengers have feared our heart, saying: The multitude is very great, and taller of stature than we: the cities great, and fenced even unto heaven, the sons of the Enacims we have seen there.📜💬📚
29 And I said to you: Fear not, neither be ye afraid of them:📜💬📚
30 Our Lord God, which is your conductor, himself will fight for you, as he did in AEgypt in the sight of all.📜💬📚
31 And in the wilderness (thy self hast seen) the Lord thy God hath carried thee, as a man is wont to bear his little son, all the way that you have walked, until you came to this place.📜💬📚
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