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Israel’s Refusal to Enter Canaan
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|Números 14:1| Then the whole community broke into loud cries, and the people wept that night.
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|Números 14:2| All the Israelites complained about Moses and Aaron, a and the whole community told them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!
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|Números 14:3| Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to die by the sword? Our wives and little children will become plunder. b Wouldn’t it be better for us to go back to Egypt?” c
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|Números 14:4| So they said to one another, “Let’s appoint a leader and go back to Egypt.”
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|Números 14:5| Then Moses and Aaron fell down with their faces to the ground in front of the whole assembly of the Israelite community.
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|Números 14:6| Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who scouted out the land, tore their clothes
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|Números 14:7| and said to the entire Israelite community: “The land we passed through and explored is an extremely good land. d
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|Números 14:8| If the LORD is pleased with us, He will bring us into this land, a land flowing with milk and honey, e and give it to us.
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|Números 14:9| Only don’t rebel against the LORD, and don’t be afraid of the people of the land, for we will devour them. f Their protection g has been removed from them, and the LORD is with us. Don’t be afraid of them!”
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|Números 14:10| While the whole community threatened to stone them, h the glory of the LORD appeared to all the Israelites at the tent of meeting.
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