Notwithstanding ye would not
consent to go up, but were disobedient unto the mouth of the LORD
your God, and murmured in your tents and said: because the LORD
hateth us, therefore he hath brought us out of the land of Egypt,
to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites and to destroy us.
How shall we go up? Our brethren have discouraged our hearts
saying: the people is greater and taller than we, and the cities
are great and walled even up to heaven, and moreover we have seen
the sons of the Enakims there. And I said unto you: dread not nor
be afraid of them: The LORD your God which goeth before you, he
shall fight for you, according to all that he did unto you in
Egypt before your eyes and in the wilderness: as thou hast seen
how that the LORD thy God bare thee as a man should bear his son,
thorowout all the way which ye have gone, until ye came unto this
place. And yet for all this saying ye did not believe the LORD
your God which goeth the way before you, to search you out a place
to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, that ye might see what
way to go and in a cloud by day. And the LORD heard the voice of
your words and was wroth and swore saying, there shall not one of
these men of this froward generation see that good land which I
sware to give unto your fathers, save Caleb the son of Iephune, he
shall see it, and to him I will give the land which he hath walked
in and to his children, because he hath continually followed the
LORD.
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