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And Yahweh will bring you back to Egypt in ships, by the way about which I spoke to you, ‘You will never see it again!' And there you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer."

Yet to this day Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, nor eyes to see, nor ears to hear.

"And the generation to come, your sons who rise up after you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land, shall see the plagues of the land and the diseases with which Yahweh has afflicted it, and they will say,

"See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and calamity;

Then He said, ‘I will hide My face from them;I will see what their end shall be;For they are a perverse generation,Sons in whom is no faithfulness.

See now that I, I am He,And there is no god besides Me;It is I who put to death and give life.I have wounded, and it is I who heal,And there is no one who can deliver from My hand.

For you shall see the land at a distance, but you shall not go there, into the land which I am giving the sons of Israel."

Then Yahweh said to him, "This is the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your seed'; I have let you see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there."

Then Joshua the son of Nun sent two men as spies secretly from Shittim, saying, "Go, see the land, especially Jericho." So they went and came into the house of a harlot whose name was Rahab and lodged there.

and they commanded the people, saying, "When you see the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God with the Levitical priests carrying it, then you shall set out from your place and go after it.

For the sons of Israel had walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, that is, the men of war who came out of Egypt, were completely destroyed because they did not listen to the voice of Yahweh, to whom Yahweh had sworn that He would not let them see the land which Yahweh had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

And Yahweh said to Joshua, "See, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and the valiant warriors.

Now Yahweh said to Joshua, "Do not fear or be dismayed. Take all the people of war with you and arise, go up to Ai; see, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, his people, his city, and his land.

And he commanded them, saying, "See, you are going to ambush the city from behind it. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.

Then it will be that when you have seized the city, that you shall set the city on fire. You shall do it according to the word of Yahweh. See, I have commanded you."

Therefore we said, ‘It will also be that if they say this to us or to our generations in time to come, then we shall say, "See the copy of the altar of Yahweh which our fathers made, not for burnt offering or for sacrifice; rather it is a witness between us and you."'

See, I have allotted to you these nations which remain as an inheritance for your tribes, with all the nations which I have cut off, from the Jordan even to the Great Sea toward the setting of the sun.

And it happened at that time as Eli was lying down in his place (now his eyesight had begun to fade, and he could not see well),

Now Eli was ninety-eight years old, and his eyes had set so that he could not see.

See, if it goes up by the way of its own territory to Beth-shemesh, then He has done us this great evil. But if not, then we will know that it was not His hand that smote us; it happened to us by chance."