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But if his daughters marry men from other tribes of Israel, then that land will leave our family, and the people of the other tribes will get that land. So we will lose some of our land.

A woman who inherits her father's land may marry, but she must marry someone from her own tribe. In this way every Israelite will keep the land that belonged to his ancestors.

But I cannot take care of your problems, your troubles, and your arguments by myself.

But you refused to go. You would not obey the command of the Lord your God,

but grumbled in your tents, saying, "The Lord hates us. He brought us out of Egypt just to give us to the Amorites, who will destroy us.

But you still did not trust the Lord your God, even though

"I promised a good land to your ancestors, but none of you evil people will see it.

but your assistant, Joshua son of Nun, will enter it. Encourage him, because he will lead Israel to take the land for their own.

But you must turn around and follow the desert road toward the Red Sea."

Then you said to me, "We have sinned against the Lord , but now we will go up and fight, as the Lord our God commanded us." Then all of you put on weapons, thinking it would be easy to go into the mountains.

But the Lord said to me, "Tell the people, ‘You must not go up there and fight. I will not be with you, and your enemies will defeat you.'"

So I told you, but you would not listen. You would not obey the Lord 's command. You were proud, so you went on up into the mountains,

So you came back and cried before the Lord , but the Lord did not listen to you; he refused to pay attention to you.

and give the people this command: ‘You will soon go through the land that belongs to your relatives, the descendants of Esau who live in Edom. They will be afraid of you, but be very careful.

The Emites were thought to be Rephaites, like the Anakites, but the Moabite people called them Emites.

The Horites also lived in Edom before, but the descendants of Esau forced them out and destroyed them, taking their place as Israel did in the land the Lord gave them as their own.)

(That land was also thought to be a land of the Rephaites, because those people used to live there, but the Ammonites called them Zamzummites.

But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass, because the Lord your God had made him stubborn. The Lord wanted you to defeat Sihon, and now this has happened.

but the Lord our God gave Sihon to us. We defeated him, his sons, and all his army.

But we kept the cattle and valuable things from the cities for ourselves.