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Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.
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And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
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And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!
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And why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?
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And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.
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And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they fell upon their faces: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto them.
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And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink.
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And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him.
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And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?
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And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.
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And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.
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This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.
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And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us:
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How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers:
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And when we cried unto the LORD, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border:
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Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country: we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king's high way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy borders.
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And Edom said unto him, Thou shalt not pass by me, lest I come out against thee with the sword.
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And the children of Israel said unto him, We will go by the high way: and if I and my cattle drink of thy water, then I will pay for it: I will only, without doing any thing else, go through on my feet.
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And he said, Thou shalt not go through. And Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand.
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Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.
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And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh, and came unto mount Hor.
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And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the coast of the land of Edom, saying,
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Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah.
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Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up unto mount Hor:
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And strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son: and Aaron shall be gathered unto his people, and shall die there.
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And Moses did as the LORD commanded: and they went up into mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.
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And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount.
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And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.
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And when king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south, heard tell that Israel came by the way of the spies; then he fought against Israel, and took some of them prisoners.
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And Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.
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And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and he called the name of the place Hormah.
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And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.
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And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.
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And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
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Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.
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And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
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And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
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And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in Oboth.
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And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ijeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising.
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From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared.
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From thence they removed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness that cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
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Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the LORD, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon,
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And at the stream of the brooks that goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth upon the border of Moab.
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And from thence they went to Beer: that is the well whereof the LORD spake unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.
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Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it:
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The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah:
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And from Mattanah to Nahaliel: and from Nahaliel to Bamoth:
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And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward Jeshimon.
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And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
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Let me pass through thy land: we will not turn into the fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink of the waters of the well: but we will go along by the king's high way, until we be past thy borders.
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And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
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And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from Arnon unto Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon: for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.
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And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof.
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For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even unto Arnon.
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Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared:
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For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it hath consumed Ar of Moab, and the lords of the high places of Arnon.
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Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh: he hath given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity unto Sihon king of the Amorites.
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We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon, and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medeba.
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Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.
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And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.
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And they turned and went up by the way of Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he, and all his people, to the battle at Edrei.
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And the LORD said unto Moses, Fear him not: for I have delivered him into thy hand, and all his people, and his land; and thou shalt do to him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.
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So they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left him alive: and they possessed his land.
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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
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The same was in the beginning with God.
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All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
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In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
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And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
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There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
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The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
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He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
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That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
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He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
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He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
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But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
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Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
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And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
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John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
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And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
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For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
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No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
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And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou?
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And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ.
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And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.
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Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?
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He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.
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And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.
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And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?
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John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not;
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He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose.
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These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.
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The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
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This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.
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And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.
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And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.
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And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.
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And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.
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Again the next day after John stood, and two of his disciples;
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And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!
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And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.
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Then Jesus turned, and saw them following, and saith unto them, What seek ye? They said unto him, Rabbi, (which is to say, being interpreted, Master,) where dwellest thou?
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He saith unto them, Come and see. They came and saw where he dwelt, and abode with him that day: for it was about the tenth hour.
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One of the two which heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.
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He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ.
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And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone.
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The day following Jesus would go forth into Galilee, and findeth Philip, and saith unto him, Follow me.
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Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.
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Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
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And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see.
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Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!
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Nathanael saith unto him, Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said unto him, Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee.
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Nathanael answered and saith unto him, Rabbi, thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel.
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Jesus answered and said unto him, Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, believest thou? thou shalt see greater things than these.
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And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.
