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2 they came and spake unto Moses and Eleazar the priest and unto the lords of the congregation, saying,
3 "The land of Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,
4 which country the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle: and we thy servants have cattle.
5 Wherefore," said they, "if we have found grace in thy sight, let this land be given unto thy servants to possess, and bring us not over Jordan."
6 And Moses said unto the children of Gad and of Reuben, "Shall your brethren go to war and ye tarry here?
7 Wherefore discourage ye the hearts of the children of Israel for to go over into the land which the LORD hath given them?
8 This did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.
9 And they went up even unto the river of Eshcol and saw the land, and discouraged the hearts of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the LORD had given them.
10 And the LORD was wroth the same time and sware, saying,
11 'None of the men that came out of Egypt, from twenty years old and above, shall see the land which I swore unto Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, because they have not continually followed me:
12 save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have followed me continually.'
13 And the LORD was angry with Israel, and made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the LORD were consumed.
14 "And behold, ye are risen up in your father's stead, the increase of sinful men, to augment the fierce wrath of the LORD to Israelward.