And the LORD was angry with Israel, and made them
wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation
that had done evil in the sight of the LORD were consumed. And
behold, ye are risen up in your father's stead, the increase of
sinful men, to augment the fierce wrath of the LORD to Israelward.
For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave the
people in the wilderness, so shall ye destroy all this folk. And
they went near him and said: we will build sheepfolds here for our
sheep and for our cattle, and cities for our children: But we our
selves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until we
have brought them unto their place. And our children shall dwell
in the strong {fenced} cities, because of the inhabiters of the
land. And we will not return unto our houses, until the children
of Israel have inherited: every man his inheritance. For we will
not inherit with them on yonder side Iordan forward, because our
inheritance is fallen to us on this side Iordan eastward. And
Moses said unto them: If ye will do this thing, that ye will go
all harnessed before the LORD to war, and will go all of you in
harness over Iordan before the LORD, until he have cast out his
enemies before him, and until the land be subdued before the LORD,
then ye shall return and be without sin against the LORD and
against Israel, and this land shall be your possession before the
LORD.
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