Moses Rebukes the Tribes

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Moshe answered the descendants of Gad and of Re'uven: "Are your brothers to go to war while you stay here?

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Besides, why are you trying to discourage the people of Isra'el from crossing into the land ADONAI gave them?

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This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-Barnea to see the land.

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For when they went up to the Eshkol Valley and saw the land, they disheartened the people of Isra'el, so that they wouldn't enter the land ADONAI had given them.

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ADONAI's anger blazed up on that day; and he swore,

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'None of the people aged twenty or more who came out of Egypt will see the land I swore to Avraham, Yitz'chak and Ya'akov; because they haven't followed me unreservedly -

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except Kalev the son of Y'funeh the K'nizi and Y'hoshua the son of Nun, because they have followed ADONAI unreservedly.'

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Thus ADONAI's anger blazed against Isra'el, so that he made them wander here and there in the desert forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of ADONAI had died out.

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Now you, another brood of sinners, have arisen in your fathers' place to increase still more the fierce anger of ADONAI toward Isra'el!

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For if you turn away from him, he will leave them in the desert again, and thus you will cause the destruction of all these people!"

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