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  • Leviticus, chapter 18, verses 1-5

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  • Numbers, chapter 14, verses 1-9; chapter 33.
     

Leviticus 18

 1And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

 2Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the LORD your God.

 3After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.

 4Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the LORD your God.

 5Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.

 


Numbers 14

 1And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.

 2And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!

 3And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?

 4And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.

 5Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.

 6And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:

 7And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.

 8If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.

 9Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.

 


Numbers 33

 1These are the journeys of the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt with their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron.

 2And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of the LORD: and these are their journeys according to their goings out.

 3And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.

 4For the Egyptians buried all their firstborn, which the LORD had smitten among them: upon their gods also the LORD executed judgments.

 5And the children of Israel removed from Rameses, and pitched in Succoth.

 6And they departed from Succoth, and pitched in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness. . . .

 38And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first day of the fifth month.

 39And Aaron was an hundred and twenty and three years old when he died in mount Hor.

 40And king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.

 41And they departed from mount Hor, and pitched in Zalmonah. . . .

 48And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.

 49And they pitched by Jordan, from Bethjesimoth even unto Abelshittim in the plains of Moab.

 50And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,

 51Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan;

 52Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:

 53And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.

 54And ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families: and to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every man's inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit.

 55But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.

 56Moreover it shall come to pass, that I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them.

 

  

Jordan River photo; contemporary map of Jordan River

 

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