BRAGADAYJAH 503

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Moses recounted further wanderings and conflicts in the wilderness. 

“After remaining many days in Kadesh, we turned and took our journey into the wilderness via the Red Sea as the Lord commanded us, and the journey took several days as we compassed Mount Seir.”

Then the Lord said to me, “You have walked around this mountain long enough. Therefore turn and take your journey Northward and command the people, and tell them they are to pass through the borders of your brethren the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, and they shall be afraid of you. Therefore be very careful.  Do not meddle with them, for I will not give you their land, not so much as an inch; for I have given Mount Seir to them for a possession. You shall buy food and water of them for money, that you may eat and drink.  For I the Lord has blessed thee in all the works of your hands; He knows your walking through that great wilderness; the Lord your God was with you and you lacked nothing”

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BRAGADAYJAH 502

BRAGADAYJAH 502

Moses recounted how when he had laid the offences of the children of Israel before them with regard to the affairs of the spies and their cowardly and faithless actions, whereby they had incurred God’s wrath, they had responded and said. “We have sinned against the Lord; we will go and fight according to all that the Lord our God had commanded us. And then they had girded on every man his weapons of war and they were ready to fight.”

“And the Lord said unto me”, Moses told them, “go you not up neither fight; for I am not with you,  and you would be smitten by your enemies. After I told you what the Lord had told me to tell you, you nevertheless rebelled against the Lord and went presumptuously up to fight. And the Amorites came out against you and chased you as bees do and destroyed you in Sir even all the way to Hormah. Then they returned and wept before the Lord; but the Lord will not heed them nor entertain their petitions. So, therefore they abode in Kadesh for a long time.”

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BRAGADAYJAH 501

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And to continue, Moses told them, “You did not believe the promises of the Lord your God who went in the way before you, to show you where to pitch your tent, providing fire by night to show you the way, and a cloud to protect you by day.  And the Lord heard your voice of unbelief and became angry with you and vowed, that not one of you of that evil generation should see that good land which He swore to give unto your fathers. None, that is to say, except Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, he shall see it; for to him and his children will I give the land that he had trodden upon, because he had wholly followed the Lord”

“In addition,” said Moses, “ the Lord was even angry with me for your sakes saying, you shall also not go in there.  But Joshua the son of Nun who stands before you, he shall go in there.  Encourage him for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.”

“Moreover, your little ones whom you said would be prey, and your children who in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in there; and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.

But as for you, turn and take your journey into the wilderness by way of the Red Sea.  

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BRAGADAYJAH 500

BRAGADAYJAH 500

Moses reminded them of the Ill Reports of the Spies.

The men went up into the mountain, Moses reminded them, and searched out the area around the valley of Eshcol, and there they found fruit which they took hold of and brought back word that the land was a good land, which the Lord had given them.  But they warned that we should not go up and possess it thereby rebelling against the commandment of the Lord and the congregation murmured in their tents and said that the Lord hated them, therefore, He had brought them out of the land of Egypt to deliver them into the hands of the Amorites to destroy them.  So they murmured why should we go up?  The Amorites are stronger and taller than we are; their cities are great and walled up to heaven; and in addition we have seen the sons of Anakim there.”

But I said unto you fear not.  “The Lord your God who goes before you; he shall fight for you according to as He did before your eyes in Egypt, and also in the wilderness where the Lord your God bore you, as a man bears his son, all the way wherever you went.

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BRAGADAYJAH 499

BRAGADAYJAH 499

While urging upon the children of Israel that they should be just in their judgments, Moses reminded them of the terrible journey they undertook from Horeb through that great and terrible wilderness as he described out, how the Lord had taken them by way of the mountain of the Amorites. And the Lord led them to Kadesh-Barnea. At that time, Moses reminded them, I told you we had arrived at the mountain of the Amorites which the Lord had given unto you.  Behold, then, the Lord your God has set the land before you,  “Go up and possess it as the Lord God of your fathers has said unto you and fear not neither be discouraged.”

But you were afraid, and you asked me to send up twelve men to spy out the land, one man from each tribe so that you would know whether it was practicable to go up against the inhabitants, and I agree and sent up twelve men

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BRAGADAYJAH 498

BRAGADAYJAH 498

Moses, in continuing to address the host of Israel told them and said, the Lord your God has said, “Behold I have set the land before you; go in and possess the land which He the Lord swore unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give unto them and their seed after them. “ And I told you earlier that I was not able to bear you myself alone. “

Now the Lord your God has multiplied you, and, behold this day you are as the stars of heaven for multitude. The Lord God of your Fathers  make you a thousand times as many more as you are, and bless you as he has promised you. So how Can I alone bear your weight and your burden and our strife?  Pick you, therefore, men of wisdom and understanding, and I will make them rulers over you.”  And you answered me and said you agreed with my suggestion.  So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, well known and made them head over you; captains over thousands, captains over hundreds, captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.  And I charged your judges at that time and told them, “Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger who is with him.  You must not respect persons in judgment, but hear the small as well as the great; you shall not be afraid of the face of any man, for the judgment is God’s, and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it to me and I will hear it. And I commanded you at that time all the things you should do.”

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BRAGADAYJAH 497

BRAGADAYJAH 497

Still not having entered into the land of promise, the children of Israel remained near but yet so far away from the Promised Land. They could actually see it but could not enter thereunto because their zeal was not supported by faith. So now Moses spoke words to them. On this side of the Jordon between Paran and Tophel, and Laban and Hazeroth and Dizahab. They were only eleven days journey away from their final destination; yet they languished there for over thirty nine years.

And so it was in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month on the first day of the month that Moses addressed them as the Lord had instructed him in accordance with His Commandments

The Lord our God spoke unto us in Horeb saying, “You have dwelt long enough in this Mount. Turn, therefore, and take your journey and go to the mount of the Amorites and to all the places nearby in the plains, the hills and low country and in the South and by the seaside in the land of the Canaanites and unto Lebanon and unto the great river Euphrates.”  

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