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and Moses taketh--Eleazar the priest also--the gold from the heads of the thousands and of the hundreds, and they bring it in unto the tent of meeting--a memorial for the sons of Israel before Jehovah.

the land which Jehovah hath smitten before the company of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle.'

and why discourage ye the heart of the sons of Israel from passing over unto the land which Jehovah hath given to them?

`Thus did your fathers in my sending them from Kadesh-Barnea to see the land;

and they go up unto the valley of Eshcol, and see the land, and discourage the heart of the sons of Israel so as not to go in unto the land which Jehovah hath given to them;

and the anger of Jehovah burneth in that day, and He sweareth, saying,

They do not see--the men who are coming up out of Egypt from a son of twenty years and upward--the ground which I have sworn to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, for they have not been fully after Me;

save Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua son of Nun, for they have been fully after Jehovah;

and the anger of Jehovah burneth against Israel, and He causeth them to wander in the wilderness forty years, until the consumption of all the generation which is doing the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah.

`And lo, ye have risen in the stead of your fathers, an increase of men--sinners, to add yet to the fury of the anger of Jehovah toward Israel;

when ye turn back from after Him, then He hath added yet to leave him in the wilderness, and ye have done corruptly to all this people.'

And Moses saith unto them, `If ye do this thing: if ye are armed before Jehovah for battle,

and every armed one of you hath passed over the Jordan before Jehovah, till his dispossessing His enemies from before Him,

and the land hath been subdued before Jehovah--then afterwards ye do turn back, and have been acquitted by Jehovah, and by Israel; and this land hath been to you for a possession before Jehovah.

`And if ye do not so, lo, ye have sinned against Jehovah, and know ye your sin, that it doth find you;

and thy servants pass over, every armed one of the host, before Jehovah, to battle, as my lord is saying.'

and Moses saith unto them, `If the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben pass over with you the Jordan, every one armed for battle, before Jehovah, and the land hath been subdued before you, then ye have given to them the land of Gilead for a possession;

And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben answer, saying, `That which Jehovah hath spoken unto thy servants--so we do;

we--we pass over armed before Jehovah to the land of Canaan, and with us is the possession of our inheritance beyond the Jordan.'

and Moses writeth their outgoings, by their journeys, by the command of Jehovah; and these are their journeys, by their outgoings:

and the Egyptians are burying those whom Jehovah hath smitten among them, every first-born, and on their gods hath Jehovah done judgments--

And Aaron the priest goeth up unto mount Hor, by the command of Jehovah, and dieth there, in the fortieth year of the going out of the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first of the month;

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, in the plains of Moab, by Jordan, near Jericho, saying,

and ye have possessed the land, and dwelt in it, for to you I have given the land--to possess it.

and it hath come to pass, as I thought to do to them--I do to you.'