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Hear
the causes
between your brethren, and judge righteously between
every
man and his brother,
and the stranger
that is
with him.
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Ye shall not respect persons in judgment;
but
ye shall hear the
small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment
is
God’s: and
the cause that is too hard for you, bring
it
unto me, and I will hear it.
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And I commanded you at
that time all the things which ye should do.
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And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness,
which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the L
ORD
our God commanded us;
and we came to Kadesh-barnea.
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And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the
Amorites, which the L
ORD
our God doth give unto us.
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Behold, the L
ORD
thy God hath set the
land before thee: go up
and
possess
it,
as the L
ORD
God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not,
neither be discouraged.
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And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they
shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what
cities we shall come.
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and the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a
tribe:
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And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and
searched it out.
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And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought
it
down unto
us, and brought us word again, and said,
It is
a good land which the L
ORD
our God doth give us.
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Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the L
ORD
your
God:
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And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the L
ORD
hated us, he hath brought us
forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
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Whither
shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people
is
greater and taller
than we; the cities
are
great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the
Anakims there.
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Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.
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The L
ORD
your God
which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before
your eyes;
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And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the L
ORD
thy God bare thee, as
a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.
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Yet in this
thing ye did not believe the L
ORD
your God,
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Who went in the way before you, to search you out
a place to pitch your tents
in,
in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud
by day.
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And the L
ORD
heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,
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Surely
there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give
unto your fathers,
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Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the
land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed the L
ORD
.
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Also the L
ORD
was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither.
38
But
Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: encourage him: for he
shall cause Israel to inherit it.
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Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and
your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither,
and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
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But
as for
you, turn you, and take your
journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
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Then ye answered and said unto me, We
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