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God brings him out of Egypt,He is for him like the horns of the wild ox.He will devour the nations who are his adversaries,And will gnaw their bones in pieces,And shatter them with his arrows.

The oracle of him who hears the words of God,And knows the knowledge of the Most High,Who beholds the vision of the Almighty,Falling down, yet having his eyes opened.

Then he took up his discourse and said,"Woe, who can live except when God has ordained it?

and it shall be for him and his seed after him, a covenant of a perpetual priesthood, because he was jealous for his God and made atonement for the sons of Israel.'"

"May Yahweh, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,

"Yahweh our God spoke to us at Horeb, saying, ‘You have stayed long enough at this mountain.

Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day like the stars of heaven in number.

May Yahweh, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand-fold more than you are and bless you, just as He has promised you!

"Then we set out from Horeb and went through all that great and fearsome wilderness which you saw on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, just as Yahweh our God had commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.

And I said to you, ‘You have come to the hill country of the Amorites which Yahweh our God is about to give us.

See, Yahweh your God has given over the land before you; go up, take possession, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has spoken to you. Do not fear or be dismayed.'

Then they took some of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us; and they brought word back to us and said, ‘It is a good land which Yahweh our God is about to give us.'

"Yet you were not willing to go up, but rebelled against the command of Yahweh your God;

Yahweh your God, who goes before you, will Himself fight on your behalf, just as He did for you in Egypt before your eyes,

and in the wilderness where you saw how Yahweh your God carried you, just as a man carries his son, in all the way which you have walked until you came to this place.'

But for all this, you did not believe Yahweh your God,

"Then you said to me, ‘We have sinned against Yahweh; we will indeed go up and fight, just as Yahweh our God commanded us.' And every man of you girded on his weapons of war and regarded it as easy to go up into the hill country.

For Yahweh your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand; He has known your wanderings through this great wilderness. These forty years Yahweh your God has been with you; you have not lacked a thing."'

just as the sons of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for me, until I cross over the Jordan into the land which Yahweh our God is giving to us.'

But Sihon king of Heshbon was not willing for us to pass through his land, for Yahweh your God stiffened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, in order to give him over into your hand, as he is today.