Deuteronomy 1
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These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel a on this side of the Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain opposite Suph, between Paran, Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
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It is eleven days' journey from Horeb by way of Mount Seir b to Kadesh Barnea.
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Now it came to pass c in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spoke to the children of Israel according to all that the LORD had given him as commandments to them,
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d after he had killed Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan, who dwelt at Ashtaroth e in Edrei.
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On this side of the Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses began to explain this law, saying,
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"The LORD our God spoke to us f in Horeb, saying: 'You have dwelt long g enough at this mountain.
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'Turn and take your journey, and go to the mountains of the Amorites, to all the neighboring places in the plain, in the mountains and in the lowland, in the South and on the seacoast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the River Euphrates.
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'See, I have set the land before you; go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers - to h Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob - to give to them and their descendants after them.'
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"And i I spoke to you at that time, saying: 'I alone am not able to bear you.
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'The LORD your God has multiplied you, j and here you are today, as the stars of heaven in multitude.
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k 'May the LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times more numerous than you are, and bless you l as He has promised you!
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m 'How can I alone bear your problems and your burdens and your complaints?
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'Choose wise, understanding, and knowledgeable men from among your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.'
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"And you answered me and said, 'The thing which you have told us to do is good.'
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"So I took n the heads of your tribes, wise and knowledgeable men, and made them heads over you, leaders of thousands, leaders of hundreds, leaders of fifties, leaders of tens, and officers for your tribes.
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"Then I commanded your judges at that time, saying, 'Hear the cases between your brethren, and o judge righteously between a man and his p brother or the stranger who is with him.
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q 'You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small as well as the great; you shall not be afraid in any man's presence, for r the judgment is God's. The case that is too hard for you, s bring to me, and I will hear it.'
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"And I commanded you at that time all the things which you should do.
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"So we departed from Horeb, t and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw on the way to the mountains of the Amorites, as the LORD our God had commanded us. Then u we came to Kadesh Barnea.
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"And I said to you, 'You have come to the mountains of the Amorites, which the LORD our God is giving us.
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'Look, the LORD your God has set the land before you; go up and possess it, as the LORD God of your fathers has spoken to you; v do not fear or be discouraged.'
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"And every one of you came near to me and said, 'Let us send men before us, and let them search out the land for us, and bring back word to us of the way by which we should go up, and of the cities into which we shall come.'
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"The plan pleased me well; so w I took twelve of your men, one man from each tribe.
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x "And they departed and went up into the mountains, and came to the Valley of Eshcol, and spied it out.
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"They also took some of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us; and they brought back word to us, saying, 'It is a y good land which the LORD our God is giving us.'
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z "Nevertheless you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the LORD your God;
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"and you a complained in your tents, and said, 'Because the LORD b hates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
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'Where can we go up? Our brethren have discouraged our hearts, saying, c "The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; moreover we have seen the sons of the d Anakim there." '
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"Then I said to you, 'Do not be terrified, e or afraid of them.
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f 'The LORD your God, who goes before you, He will fight for you, according to all He did for you in Egypt before your eyes,
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'and in the wilderness where you saw how the LORD your God carried you, as a g man carries his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place.'
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"Yet, for all that, h you did not believe the LORD your God,
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i "who went in the way before you j to search out a place for you to pitch your tents, to show you the way you should go, in the fire by night and in the cloud by day.
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"And the LORD heard the sound of your words, and was angry, k and took an oath, saying,
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l 'Surely not one of these men of this evil generation shall see that good land of which I swore to give to your fathers,
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m 'except Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him and his children I am giving the land on which he walked, because n he wholly followed the LORD.'
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o "The LORD was also angry with me for your sakes, saying, 'Even you shall not go in there.
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p 'Joshua the son of Nun, q who stands before you, he shall go in there. r Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
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s 'Moreover your little ones and your children, who t you say will be victims, who today u have no knowledge of good and evil, they shall go in there; to them I will give it, and they shall possess it.
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v 'But as for you, turn and take your journey into the wilderness by the Way of the Red Sea.'
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"Then you answered and said to me, w 'We have sinned against the LORD; we will go up and fight, just as the LORD our God commanded us.' And when everyone of you had girded on his weapons of war, you were ready to go up into the mountain.
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"And the LORD said to me, 'Tell them, x "Do not go up nor fight, for I am not among you; lest you be defeated before your enemies." '
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"So I spoke to you; yet you would not listen, but y rebelled against the command of the LORD, and z presumptuously went up into the mountain.
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"And the Amorites who dwelt in that mountain came out against you and chased you a as bees do, and drove you back from Seir to Hormah.
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"Then you returned and wept before the LORD, but the LORD would not listen to your voice nor give ear to you.
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b "So you remained in Kadesh many days, according to the days that you spent there.
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Deuteronomy 4:44 - 46
Now this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel.
Joshua 9:1
And it came to pass when all the kings who were on this side of the Jordan, in the hills and in the lowland and in all the coasts of the Great Sea toward Lebanon - the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite - heard about it.
Joshua 9:10
And all that He did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan - to Sihon king of Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan, who was at Ashtaroth.
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Numbers 13:26
Now they departed and came back to Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel in the Wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh; they brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.
Numbers 32:8
Thus your fathers did when I sent them away from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.
Deuteronomy 9:23
Likewise, when the LORD sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, 'Go up and possess the land which I have given you,' then you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and you did not believe Him nor obey His voice.
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Numbers 33:38
Then Aaron the priest went up to Mount Hor at the command of the LORD, and died there in the fortieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, on the first day of the fifth month.
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Numbers 21:23
But Sihon would not allow Israel to pass throug...
Numbers 21:24
Then Israel defeated him with the edge of the s...
Numbers 21:33 - 35
And they turned and went up by the way to Basha...
Deuteronomy 2:26 - 35
And I sent messengers from the Wilderness of Ke...
Joshua 13:10
All the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, w...
Nehemiah 9:22
Moreover You gave them kingdoms and nations, An...
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Joshua 13:12
All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants; for Moses had defeated and cast out these.
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Exodus 3:1
Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock to the back of the desert, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
Exodus 3:12
So He said, "I will certainly be with you. And this shall be a sign to you that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.
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Exodus 19:1
In the third month after the children of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on the same day, they came to the Wilderness of Sinai.
Exodus 19:2
For they had departed from Rephidim, had come to the Wilderness of Sinai, and camped in the wilderness. So Israel camped there before the mountain.
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Genesis 12:7
Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, "To y...
Genesis 15:5
Then He brought him outside and said, "Look now...
Genesis 22:17
Blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I wi...
Genesis 26:3
Dwell in this land, and I will be with you and ...
Genesis 28:13
And behold, the LORD stood above it and said: "...
Exodus 33:1
Then the LORD said to Moses, "Depart and go up ...
Numbers 14:23
They certainly shall not see the land of which ...
Numbers 32:11
Surely none of the men who came up from Egypt, ...
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Exodus 18:18
Both you and these people who are with you will surely wear yourselves out. For this thing is too much for you; you are not able to perform it by yourself.
Exodus 18:24
So Moses heeded the voice of his father-in-law and did all that he had said.
Numbers 11:14
I am not able to bear all these people alone, because the burden is too heavy for me.
Numbers 11:24
So Moses went out and told the people the words of the LORD, and he gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people and placed them around the tabernacle.
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Genesis 15:5
Then He brought him outside and said, "Look now...
Genesis 22:17
Blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I wi...
Exodus 32:13
"Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your serv...
Deuteronomy 7:7
The LORD did not set His love on you nor choose...
Deuteronomy 10:22
Your fathers went down to Egypt with seventy pe...
Deuteronomy 26:5
And you shall answer and say before the LORD yo...
Deuteronomy 28:62
You shall be left few in number, whereas you we...
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2 Samuel 24:3
And Joab said to the king, "Now may the LORD your God add to the people a hundred times more than there are, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king desire this thing?
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Genesis 15:5
Then He brought him outside and said, "Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them." And He said to him, "So shall your descendants be.
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1 Kings 3:8
And Your servant is in the midst of Your people whom You have chosen, a great people, too numerous to be numbered or counted.
1 Kings 3:9
"Therefore give to Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people, that I may discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of Yours?"
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Exodus 18:25
And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people: rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
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Deuteronomy 16:18
You shall appoint judges and officers in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
John 7:24
"Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment."
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Leviticus 24:22
'You shall have the same law for the stranger and for one from your own country; for I am the LORD your God.'"
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Leviticus 19:15
You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shal...
Deuteronomy 10:17
For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord o...
Deuteronomy 16:19
You shall not pervert justice; you shall not sh...
Deuteronomy 24:17
You shall not pervert justice due the stranger ...
1 Samuel 16:7
But the LORD said to Samuel, "Do not look at hi...
Proverbs 24:23 - 26
These things also belong to the wise: It is not...
Acts 10:34
Then Peter opened his mouth and said: "In truth...
James 2:1
My brethren, do not hold the faith of our Lord ...
James 2:9
But if you show partiality, you commit sin, and...
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2 Chronicles 19:6
And said to the judges, "Take heed to what you are doing, for you do not judge for man but for the LORD, who is with you in the judgment.
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Exodus 18:22
And let them judge the people at all times. Then it will be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they themselves shall judge. So it will be easier for you, for they will bear the burden with you.
Exodus 18:26
So they judged the people at all times; the hard cases they brought to Moses, but they judged every small case themselves.
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Numbers 10:12
And the children of Israel set out from the Wilderness of Sinai on their journeys; then the cloud settled down in the Wilderness of Paran.
Deuteronomy 2:7
"For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand. He knows your trudging through this great wilderness. These forty years the LORD your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing."'
Deuteronomy 8:15
Who led you through that great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty land where there was no water; who brought water for you out of the flinty rock.
Deuteronomy 32:10
He found him in a desert land And in the wasteland, a howling wilderness; He encircled him, He instructed him, He kept him as the apple of His eye.
Jeremiah 2:6
Neither did they say, 'Where is the LORD, Who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, Who led us through the wilderness, Through a land of deserts and pits, Through a land of drought and the shadow of death, Through a land that no one crossed And where no one dwelt?
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Numbers 13:26
Now they departed and came back to Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel in the Wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh; they brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.
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Joshua 1:6
Be strong and of good courage, for to this people you shall divide as an inheritance the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.
Joshua 1:9
"Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go."
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Numbers 13:2
"Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel; from each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a leader among them."
Numbers 13:3
So Moses sent them from the Wilderness of Paran according to the command of the LORD, all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel.
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Numbers 13:21 - 25
So they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, near the entrance of Hamath.
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Numbers 13:27
Then they told him, and said: "We went to the land where you sent us. It truly flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.
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Numbers 14:1 - 4
So all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night.
Psalms 106:24
Then they despised the pleasant land; They did not believe His word.
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Psalms 106:25
But complained in their tents, And did not heed the voice of the LORD.
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Deuteronomy 9:28
'lest the land from which You brought us should say, "Because the LORD was not able to bring them to the land which He promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness."
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Numbers 13:28
Nevertheless the people who dwell in the land are strong; the cities are fortified and very large; moreover we saw the descendants of Anak there.
Numbers 13:31 - 33
But the men who had gone up with him said, "We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.
Deuteronomy 9:1
Hear, O Israel: You are to cross over the Jordan today, and go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to heaven.
Deuteronomy 9:2
"a people great and tall, the descendants of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you heard it said, 'Who can stand before the descendants of Anak?'
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Numbers 13:28
Nevertheless the people who dwell in the land are strong; the cities are fortified and very large; moreover we saw the descendants of Anak there.
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Numbers 14:9
"Only do not rebel against the LORD, nor fear the people of the land, for they are our bread; their protection has departed from them, and the LORD is with us. Do not fear them."
Deuteronomy 7:18
You shall not be afraid of them, but you shall remember well what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt:
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Exodus 14:14
"The LORD will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace."
Deuteronomy 3:22
'You must not fear them, for the LORD your God Himself fights for you.'
Deuteronomy 20:4
'for the LORD your God is He who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.'
Nehemiah 4:20
"Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally to us there. Our God will fight for us."
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Deuteronomy 32:10 - 12
He found him in a desert land And in the wasteland, a howling wilderness; He encircled him, He instructed him, He kept him as the apple of His eye.
Isaiah 46:3
Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, And all the remnant of the house of Israel, Who have been upheld by Me from birth, Who have been carried from the womb:
Isaiah 46:4
Even to your old age, I am He, And even to gray hairs I will carry you! I have made, and I will bear; Even I will carry, and will deliver you.
Isaiah 63:9
In all their affliction He was afflicted, And the Angel of His Presence saved them; In His love and in His pity He redeemed them; And He bore them and carried them All the days of old.
Hosea 11:3
I taught Ephraim to walk, Taking them by their arms; But they did not know that I healed them.
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Numbers 14:11
Then the LORD said to Moses: "How long will the...
Numbers 20:12
Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, "Becaus...
Psalms 106:24
Then they despised the pleasant land; They did ...
Hebrews 3:9
Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me, And saw...
Hebrews 3:10
Therefore I was angry with that generation, And...
Hebrews 3:16 - 19
For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it...
Hebrews 4:1
Therefore, since a promise remains of entering ...
Hebrews 4:2
For indeed the gospel was preached to us as wel...
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Exodus 13:21
And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so as to go by day and night.
Numbers 9:15 - 23
Now on the day that the tabernacle was raised up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tent of the Testimony; from evening until morning it was above the tabernacle like the appearance of fire.
Nehemiah 9:12
Moreover You led them by day with a cloudy pillar, And by night with a pillar of fire, To give them light on the road Which they should travel.
Psalms 78:14
In the daytime also He led them with the cloud, And all the night with a light of fire.
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Numbers 10:33
So they departed from the mountain of the LORD on a journey of three days; and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them for the three days' journey, to search out a resting place for them.
Ezekiel 20:6
On that day I raised My hand in an oath to them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, 'flowing with milk and honey,' the glory of all lands.
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Deuteronomy 2:14
And the time we took to come from Kadesh Barnea until we crossed over the Valley of the Zered was thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of war was consumed from the midst of the camp, just as the LORD had sworn to them.
Deuteronomy 2:15
For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp until they were consumed.
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Numbers 14:22
Because all these men who have seen My glory and the signs which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have put Me to the test now these ten times, and have not heeded My voice.
Numbers 14:23
They certainly shall not see the land of which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who rejected Me see it.
Psalms 95:10
For forty years I was grieved with that generation, And said, 'It is a people who go astray in their hearts, And they do not know My ways.
Psalms 95:11
So I swore in My wrath, 'They shall not enter My rest.'
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Numbers 14:24
But My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit in him and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land where he went, and his descendants shall inherit it.
Joshua 14:9
"So Moses swore on that day, saying, 'Surely the land where your foot has trodden shall be your inheritance and your children's forever, because you have wholly followed the LORD my God.'
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Numbers 32:11
Surely none of the men who came up from Egypt, from twenty years old and above, shall see the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, because they have not wholly followed Me.
Numbers 32:12
'except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have wholly followed the LORD.'
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Numbers 20:12
Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, "Becaus...
Numbers 27:14
For in the Wilderness of Zin, during the strife...
Deuteronomy 3:26
But the LORD was angry with me on your account,...
Deuteronomy 4:21
Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your...
Deuteronomy 34:4
Then the LORD said to him, "This is the land of...
Psalms 106:32
They angered Him also at the waters of strife, ...
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Numbers 14:30
Except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun, you shall by no means enter the land which I swore I would make you dwell in.
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Exodus 24:13
So Moses arose with his assistant Joshua, and Moses went up to the mountain of God.
Exodus 33:11
So the LORD spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. And he would return to the camp, but his servant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the tabernacle.
1 Samuel 16:22
Then Saul sent to Jesse, saying, "Please let David stand before me, for he has found favor in my sight.
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Numbers 27:18
And the LORD said to Moses: "Take Joshua the son of Nun with you, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him.
Numbers 27:19
Set him before Eleazar the priest and before all the congregation, and inaugurate him in their sight.
Deuteronomy 31:7
Then Moses called Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, "Be strong and of good courage, for you must go with this people to the land which the LORD has sworn to their fathers to give them, and you shall cause them to inherit it.
Deuteronomy 31:23
Then He inaugurated Joshua the son of Nun, and said, "Be strong and of good courage; for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land of which I swore to them, and I will be with you.
Joshua 11:23
So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD had said to Moses; and Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. Then the land rested from war.
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Numbers 14:31
But your little ones, whom you said would be victims, I will bring in, and they shall know the land which you have despised.
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Numbers 14:3
"Why has the LORD brought us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and children should become victims? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?"
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Isaiah 7:15
Curds and honey He shall eat, that He may know to refuse the evil and choose the good.
Isaiah 7:16
For before the Child shall know to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land that you dread will be forsaken by both her kings.
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Numbers 14:25
"Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valley; tomorrow turn and move out into the wilderness by the Way of the Red Sea."
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Numbers 14:40
And they rose early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, "Here we are, and we will go up to the place which the LORD has promised, for we have sinned!
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Numbers 14:41 - 43
And Moses said, "Now why do you transgress the command of the LORD? For this will not succeed.
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Numbers 14:44
But they presumed to go up to the mountaintop. Nevertheless, neither the ark of the covenant of the LORD nor Moses departed from the camp.
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Deuteronomy 17:12
Now the man who acts presumptuously and will not heed the priest who stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So you shall put away the evil from Israel.
Deuteronomy 17:13
And all the people shall hear and fear, and no longer act presumptuously.
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Numbers 14:45
Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who dwelt in that mountain came down and attacked them, and drove them back as far as Hormah.
Psalms 118:12
They surrounded me like bees; They were quenched like a fire of thorns; For in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
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Numbers 13:25
And they returned from spying out the land after forty days.
Numbers 20:1
Then the children of Israel, the whole congregation, came into the Wilderness of Zin in the first month, and the people stayed in Kadesh; and Miriam died there and was buried there.
Numbers 20:22
Now the children of Israel, the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh and came to Mount Hor.
Deuteronomy 2:7
"For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand. He knows your trudging through this great wilderness. These forty years the LORD your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing."'
Deuteronomy 2:14
And the time we took to come from Kadesh Barnea until we crossed over the Valley of the Zered was thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of war was consumed from the midst of the camp, just as the LORD had sworn to them.
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