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I HaShem have spoken, surely this will I do unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against Me; in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.'
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And the men, whom Moses sent to spy out the land, and who, when they returned, made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report against the land,
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even those men that did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before HaShem.
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But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, remained alive of those men that went to spy out the land.
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And Moses told these words unto all the children of Israel; and the people mourned greatly.
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And they rose up early in the morning, and got them up to the top of the mountain, saying: 'Lo, we are here, and will go up unto the place which HaShem hath promised; for we have sinned.'
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And Moses said: 'Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of HaShem, seeing it shall not prosper?
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Go not up, for HaShem is not among you; that ye be not smitten down before your enemies.
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For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and ye shall fall by the sword; forasmuch as ye are turned back from following HaShem, and HaShem will not be with you.'
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But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain; nevertheless the ark of the covenant of HaShem, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.
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Then the Amalekite and the Canaanite, who dwelt in that hill-country, came down, and smote them and beat them down, even unto Hormah.