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Where can we go up? Our brethren have discouraged our hearts, saying, "The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there." '
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Then I said to you, 'Do not be terrified, or afraid of them.
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The Lord your God, who goes before you, He will fight for you, according to all He did for you in Egypt before your eyes,
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and in the wilderness where you saw how the Lord your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place.'
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Yet, for all that, you did not believe the Lord your God,
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who went in the way before you to search out a place for you to pitch your tents, to show you the way you should go, in the fire by night and in the cloud by day.
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"And the Lord heard the sound of your words, and was angry, and took an oath, saying,
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'Surely not one of these men of this evil generation shall see that good land of which I swore to give to your fathers,
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except Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him and his children I am giving the land on which he walked, because he wholly followed the Lord.'
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The Lord was also angry with me for your sakes, saying, 'Even you shall not go in there;
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Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall go in there. Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.