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Deuteronomy 1:28
“Where are we going up? our brothers have made our heart to melt, saying, 'The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to the sky; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.”
Verse in context — Deuteronomy 1
Yet you wouldn't go up, but rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God:
and you murmured in your tents, and said, "Because Yahweh hated us, he has brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
Where are we going up? our brothers have made our heart to melt, saying, 'The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to the sky; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.
Then I said to you, "Don't dread, neither be afraid of them.
Yahweh your God who goes before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,
About Deuteronomy
Moses’ final speeches, reminding Israel of God’s law before entering the Promised Land.
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