Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
Numbers 14:12
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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.”
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I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
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I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”
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I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.
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Numbers 14
10 But the whole congregation threatened to stone Joshua and Caleb. Then the glory of the LORD appeared to all the Israelites at the Tent of Meeting.
11 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?
12 I will strike them with a plague and destroy them—and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they are.”
13 But Moses said to the LORD, “The Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your strength You brought this people from among them.
14 And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have already heard that You, O LORD, are in the midst of this people, that You, O LORD, have been seen face to face, that Your cloud stands over them, and that You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.
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