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Numbers · read by James Jennings
38 verses, in order. Only the verses James read aloud are shown.
Numbers 13
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When Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, he told them, "Go up through the Negev and into the hill country.Read from ESV · The Wickedness Of Being a Discouragement To Others
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See what the land is like and whether its people are strong or weak, few or many.Read from ESV · The Wickedness Of Being a Discouragement To Others
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After forty days the men returned from spying out the land,Read from ESV · The Wickedness Of Being a Discouragement To Others
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and they went back to Moses, Aaron, and the whole congregation of Israel in the Wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. They brought back a report for the whole congregation and showed them the fruit of the land.Read from ESV · The Wickedness Of Being a Discouragement To Others
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And they gave this account to Moses: "We went into the land to which you sent us, and indeed, it is flowing with milk and honey. Here is some of its fruit!Read from ESV · Caleb, A Man With a Different Spirit
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Nevertheless, the people living in the land are strong, and the cities are large and fortified. We even saw the descendants of Anak there.Read from ESV · The Wickedness Of Being a Discouragement To Others
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The Amalekites live in the land of the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live by the sea and along the Jordan."Read from ESV · The Wickedness Of Being a Discouragement To Others
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Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, "We must go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly conquer it!"Read from ESV · The Wickedness Of Being a Discouragement To Others
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But the men who had gone up with him replied, "We cannot go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are!"Read from ESV · The Wickedness Of Being a Discouragement To Others
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So they gave the Israelites a bad report about the land that they had spied out: "The land we explored devours its inhabitants, and all the people we saw there are great in stature.Read from ESV · Caleb, A Man With a Different Spirit
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We even saw the Nephilim there—the descendants of Anak that come from the Nephilim! We seemed like grasshoppers in our own sight, and we must have seemed the same to them!"Read from ESV · Caleb, A Man With a Different Spirit
Numbers 14
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Then the whole congregation lifted up their voices and cried out, and that night the people wept.Read from ESV · The Wickedness Of Being a Discouragement To Others
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All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, "If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!Read from ESV · The Wickedness Of Being a Discouragement To Others
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Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?"Read from ESV · Caleb, A Man With a Different Spirit
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So they said to one another, "Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt."Read from ESV · Caleb, A Man With a Different Spirit
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Then Moses and Aaron fell facedown before the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel.Read from ESV · The Wickedness Of Being a Discouragement To Others
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Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothesRead from ESV · The Wickedness Of Being a Discouragement To Others
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and said to the whole congregation of Israel, "The land we passed through and explored is an exceedingly good land.Read from ESV · The Wickedness Of Being a Discouragement To Others
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If the LORD delights in us, He will bring us into this land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and He will give it to us.Read from ESV · Caleb, A Man With a Different Spirit
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Only do not rebel against the LORD, and do not be afraid of the people of the land, for they will be like bread for us. Their protection has been removed, and the LORD is with us. Do not be afraid of them!"Read from ESV · Caleb, A Man With a Different Spirit
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And the LORD said to Moses, "How long will this people treat Me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in Me, despite all the signs I have performed among them?Read from ESV · The Wickedness Of Being a Discouragement To Others
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I will strike them with a plague and destroy them—and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they are."Read from ESV · The Wickedness Of Being a Discouragement To Others
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Pardon, I pray, the iniquity of this people, in keeping with the greatness of Your loving devotion, just as You have forgiven them ever since they left Egypt."Read from ESV · Caleb, A Man With a Different Spirit
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But because My servant Caleb has a different spirit and has followed Me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he has entered, and his descendants will inherit it.Read from ESV · Caleb, A Man With a Different Spirit
Numbers 15
Numbers 23
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God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?Read from ESV · Joseph Wept and Displayed Marvelous Patience
Numbers 32
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But Moses asked the Gadites and Reubenites, "Shall your brothers go to war while you sit here?Read from ESV · The Wickedness Of Being a Discouragement To Others
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Why are you discouraging the Israelites from crossing into the land that the LORD has given them?Read from ESV · The Wickedness Of Being a Discouragement To Others
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For when your fathers went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the Israelites from entering the land that the LORD had given them.Read from ESV · The Wickedness Of Being a Discouragement To Others
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So the anger of the LORD was kindled that day, and He swore an oath, saying,Read from ESV · The Wickedness Of Being a Discouragement To Others
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'Because they did not follow Me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years of age or older who came out of Egypt will see the land that I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—Read from ESV · The Wickedness Of Being a Discouragement To Others
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not one except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun—because they did follow the LORD wholeheartedly.'Read from ESV · The Wickedness Of Being a Discouragement To Others
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The anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the whole generation who had done evil in His sight was gone.Read from ESV · The Wickedness Of Being a Discouragement To Others
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Now behold, you, a brood of sinners, have risen up in place of your fathers to further stoke the burning anger of the LORD against Israel.Read from ESV · The Wickedness Of Being a Discouragement To Others
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For if you turn away from following Him, He will once again leave this people in the wilderness, and you will be the cause of their destruction."Read from ESV · The Wickedness Of Being a Discouragement To Others
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But if you do not do this, you will certainly sin against the LORD—and be assured that your sin will find you out.Read from ESV · Lessons David Learned on How God Deals With Transgressors
Numbers 36
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No inheritance in Israel may be transferred from tribe to tribe, because each of the Israelites is to retain the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.Read from ESV · Avoid Ahab's Self Pity Party