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Why has the Lord brought us into this land only to be killed by the sword, that our wives and our children should become plunder? Wouldn't it be better for us to return to Egypt?"

Only do not rebel against the Lord , and do not fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us. Their protection has turned aside from them, but the Lord is with us. Do not fear them!"

Moses said to the Lord , "When the Egyptians hear it—for you brought up this people by your power from among them—

For all the people have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tempted me now these ten times, and have not obeyed me,

But as for you, your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness,

and your children will wander in the wilderness forty years and suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your dead bodies lie finished in the wilderness.

According to the number of the days you have investigated this land, forty days—one day for a year—you will suffer for your iniquities, forty years, and you will know what it means to thwart me.

And early in the morning they went up to the crest of the hill country, saying, "Here we are, and we will go up to the place that the Lord commanded, for we have sinned."

Do not go up, for the Lord is not among you, and you will be defeated before your enemies.

For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you will fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from the Lord , the Lord will not be with you."

and you make an offering by fire to the Lord from the herd or from the flock (whether a burnt offering or a sacrifice for discharging a vow or as a freewill offering or in your solemn feasts) to create a pleasing aroma to the Lord ,

You must also prepare one-fourth of a hin of wine for a drink offering with the burnt offering or the sacrifice for each lamb.

Or for a ram, you must prepare as a grain offering two-tenths of an ephah of finely ground flour mixed with one-third of a hin of olive oil,

and for a drink offering you must offer one-third of a hin of wine as a pleasing aroma to the Lord .

And when you prepare a young bull as a burnt offering or a sacrifice for discharging a vow or as a peace offering to the Lord ,

This is what is to be done for each ox, or each ram, or each of the male lambs or the goats.

You must do so for each one according to the number that you prepare.

One statute must apply to you who belong to the congregation and to the resident foreigner who is living among you, as a permanent statute for your future generations. You and the resident foreigner will be alike before the Lord .

then if anything is done unintentionally without the knowledge of the community, the whole community must prepare one young bull for a burnt offering—for a pleasing aroma to the Lord —along with its grain offering and its customary drink offering, and one male goat for a purification offering.

And the priest is to make atonement for the whole community of the Israelites, and they will be forgiven, because it was unintentional and they have brought their offering, an offering made by fire to the Lord , and their purification offering before the Lord , for their unintentional offense.