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But the men that went up together with him said, We will not go up, for we shall not by any means be able to go up against the nation, for it is much stronger than we.

We will go over armed before the Lord into the land of Chanaan, and ye shall give us our inheritance beyond Jordan.

For who is God but the Lord? and who is a God except our God?

For he has said in his heart, God has forgotten: he has turned away his face so as never to look.

Exhort ye them to-day to remain in the way: exhort ye beckoning with the hand the mountain, the daughter of Sion, even ye hills that are in Jerusalem.

On man's flesh it shall not be poured, and ye shall not make any for yourselves according to this composition: it is holy, and shall be holiness to you.

And they departed from Banaea, and encamped in the mountain Gadgad.

And the children of Israel were in the wilderness, and they found a man gathering sticks on the sabbath-day.

And they made on the border of the tunic below pomegranates as of a flowering pomegranate tree, of blue, and purple, and spun scarlet, and fine linen twined.

For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and their vine-branch of Gomorrha: their grape is a grape of gall, their cluster is one of bitterness.

Ye shall not accept a ransom to excuse his fleeing to the city of refuge, so that he should again dwell in the land, until the death of the high-priest.

Or wilt thou reveal Mazuroth in his season, and the evening star with his rays? Wilt thou guide them?

He has hidden the light in his hands, and given charge concerning it to the interposing cloud.

And in this matter ye believed not the Lord our God,

I will see apart from myself: do thou shew me if I have done unrighteousness; I will not do so any more.

And Seon the king of Esebon came forth to meet us, he and all his people to war at Jassa.

If thou hast words, answer me: speak, for I desire thee to be justified.

Ask of the former days which were before thee, from the day when God created man upon the earth, and beginning at the one end of heaven to the other end of heaven, if there has happened any thing like to this great event, if such a thing has been heard:

And ye shall take heed to do as the Lord thy God commanded thee; ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left,

for the stranger did not lodge without, and my door was opened to every one that came:)

And your carcases shall fall in this wilderness.

And ye shall take heed to do all his ordinances, and these judgments, as many as I set before you to-day.

But the Levites were not numbered with them, as the Lord commanded Moses.

and to work in stone, and to fashion the wood, and to work in every work of wisdom.

To Merari belonged the family of Mooli, and the family of Musi: these are the families of Merari.

Behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, will mightily confound the glorious ones; and the haughty in pride shall be crushed, and the lofty shall be brought low:

Whosoever shall make it in like manner, and whosoever shall give of it to a stranger, shall be destroyed from among his people.

Their wine is the rage of serpents, and the incurable rage of asps.

This is the ministration of the family of the sons of Merari in all their works in the tabernacle of witness, by the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

A nation which thou knowest not shall eat the produce of thy land, and all thy labours; and thou shalt be injured and crushed always.

I ran the way of thy commandments, when thou didst enlarge my heart.

Would that he our mediator were present, and a reprover, and one who should hear the cause between both.

And your sons shall be fed in the wilderness forty years, and they shall bear your fornication, until your carcases be consumed in the wilderness.

And let him be gathered as the unripe grape before the time, and let him fall as the blossom of the olive.

or if too having sinned unintentionally, I hid my sin;

according to all the way which the Lord thy God commanded thee to walk in it, that he may give thee rest; and that it may be well with thee, and ye may prolong your days on the land which ye shall inherit.

The flesh was yet between their teeth, before it failed, when the Lord was wroth with the people, and the Lord smote the people with a very great plague.

if a nation have heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard and hast lived;

If not, do thou hear me: be silent, and I will teach thee.

And the Lord our God delivered him before our face, and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people.

Will he take vengeance for it on thee, whereas thou wilt put it far from thee? for thou shalt choose, and not I; and what thou knowest, speak thou.

who goes before you in the way to choose you a place, guiding you in fire by night, shewing you the way by which ye go, and a cloud by day.

The Lord will declare concerning this to his friend: but there is a portion also for unrighteousness.

So shall ye not pollute with murder the land in which ye dwell; for this blood pollutes the land, and the land shall not be purged from the blood shed upon it, but by the blood of him that shed it.

And knowest thou the changes of heaven, or the events which take place together under heaven?

And they departed from the mountain Gadgad, and encamped in Etebatha.

And they brought a horror of that land which they surveyed upon the children of Israel, saying, The land which we passed by to survey it, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people whom we saw in it are men of extraordinary stature.

It is God that girds me with strength, and has made my way blameless:

And Moses gave to them, even to the sons of Gad and the sons of Ruben, and to the half tribe of Manasse of the sons of Joseph, the kingdom of Seon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Basan, the land and its cities with its coasts, the cities of the land round about.

and oxen, seventy-two thousand:

Their meat-offerings and their drink-offerings shall be to the calves and the rams and the lambs according to their number, according to their ordinance.

The stones of the valley have been sweet to him, and every man shall depart after him, and there are innumerable ones before him.

One calf of the herd, one ram, one he-lamb of a year old for a whole-burnt-offering,

who looks upon the earth, and makes it tremble; who touches the mountains, and they smoke.

The sons of Manasse. To Machir the family of the Machirites; and Machir begot Galaad: to Galaad, the family of the Galaadites.

And they departed from the mount of the Lord a three days' journey; and the ark of the covenant of the Lord went before them a three days' journey to provide rest for them.

Let them exalt him in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the seat of the elders.

The sinner watches the righteous, and seeks to slay him.

And if she had not turned out of the way, surely now, I should have slain thee, and should have saved her alive.

And having returned, they went up the road thhebraismat leads to Basan; and Og the king of Basan went forth to meet them, and all his people to war to Edrain.

Sing to God, ye kingdoms of the earth; sing psalms to the Lord. Pause.

They provoked him also at the water of Strife, and Moses was hurt for their sakes;

In the midst of all this they sinned yet more, and believed not his miracles.

And they went down and all that they had, alive into Hades; and the ground covered them, and they perished from the midst of the congregation.

And they who found him gathering sticks on the sabbath-day brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel.

And they made golden bells, and put the bells on the border of the tunic round about between the pomegranates:

the numbering of them of the tribe of Manasse, was thirty-two thousand and two hundred.

For thus saith the Lord, The houses of the king of Babylon shall be threshed as a floor in the season; yet a little while, and her harvest shall come.

Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of the Assyrians, He shall not enter into this city, nor cast a weapon against it, nor bring a shield against it, nor make a rampart round it.

And thou shalt be thoroughly weakened; and the cup of destruction, the cup of thy sister Samaria,

He has not answered in anger from his heart, though he has brought low the children of a man.

Whereas thou hast said, Alas! alas! for the Lord has laid a grievous trouble upon me; I lay down in groaning, I found no rest;

For this is my covenant which I will make with the house of Israel; after those days, saith the Lord, I will surely put my laws into their mind, and write them on their hearts; and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people.

and changed his prison garments: and he ate bread continually before him all the days that he lived.

Thus saith the Lord; The children of Israel and the children of Juda have been oppressed: all they that have taken them captive have oppressed them together; for they would not let them go.

And the dead bodies of this people shall be for food to the birds of the sky, and to the wild beasts of the earth; and there shall be none to drive them away.

She has even given rewards to all that went a-whoring after her, and thou hast given rewards to all thy lovers, yea, thou didst load them with rewards, that they should come to thee from every side for thy fornication.

What fair device wilt thou yet employ in thy ways, so as to seek love? it shall not be so; moreover thou has done wickedly in corrupting thy ways;

And the palace shall be a resting-place for ostriches, and desolate for ever: no man shall abide there, and no son of man shall dwell there.

Thus saith the Lord God; In the day wherein I shall cleanse you from all your iniquities I will also cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places shall be built upon:

And the slain of the Lord shall be in the day of the Lord from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth: they shall not be buried; they shall be as dung on the face of the earth.

Joy and gladness have been utterly swept off the land of Moab: and though there was wine in thy presses, in the morning they trod it not, neither in the evening did they raise the cry of joy.

Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord, I will reign over you with a strong hand, and with a high arm, and with outpoured wrath:

And if this people, or the priest, or the prophet, should ask, What is the burden of the Lord? then thou shalt say to them, Ye are the burden, and I will dash you down, saith the Lord.

But whenever it shall come to pass, they will say, Behold, it is come: and they shall know that there was a prophet in the midst of them.

And they turned the back to me, and not the face: whereas I taught them early in the morning, but they hearkened no more to receive instructions.

For thou shalt be required before thy time: has it been prepared for thee also to reign? nay, God has prepared for thee a deep trench, wood piled, fire and much wood: the wrath of the Lord shall be as a trench kindled with sulphur.

How large a reward hast thou gained from the sea? thou hast filled nations out of thine abundance; and out of thy mixed merchandise thou hast enriched all the kings of the earth.

and the chambers, and the posts, and the porches according to these measures: and there were windows to it, and porches round about: the length of it was fifty cubits, and the breadth of it twenty-five cubits.

And southward, four thousand and five hundred by measure: and three gates; the gate of Symeon, one, and the gate of Issachar, one, and the gate of Zabulon, one.

and the desolate land shall be cultivated, whereas it was desolate in the eyes of every one that passed by.

drink thou it, and I will take away her feasts and her new moons: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord.