Deuteronomy 32:15-30

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[15] But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked: You have grown fat, you are grown thick, you are become sleek; Then he forsook God who made him, Lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. [16] They moved him to jealousy with strange [gods]; With abominations provoked they him to anger. [17] They sacrificed to demons, [which were] no God, To gods that they didn't know, To new [gods] that came up of late, Which your fathers didn't dread. [18] Of the Rock that became your father, you are unmindful, Have forgotten God who gave you birth. [19] Yahweh saw [it], and abhorred [them], Because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters. [20] He said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: For they are a very perverse generation, Children in whom is no faithfulness. [21] They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; They have provoked me to anger with their vanities: I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. [22] For a fire is kindled in my anger, Burns to the lowest Sheol, Devours the earth with its increase, Sets on fire the foundations of the mountains. [23] I will heap evils on them; I will spend my arrows on them: [24] [They shall be] wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat Bitter destruction; The teeth of animals will I send on them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust. [25] Outside shall the sword bereave, In the chambers terror; [It shall destroy] both young man and virgin, The suckling with the man of gray hairs. [26] I said, I would scatter them afar, I would make the memory of them to cease from among men; [27] Were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, Lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, Lest they should say, Our hand is exalted, Yahweh has not done all this. [28] For they are a nation void of counsel, There is no understanding in them. [29] Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would consider their latter end! [30] How should one chase a thousand, Two put ten thousand to flight, Except their Rock had sold them, Yahweh had delivered them up?

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The Exodus RouteThe route of the Israelites out of Egypt through the Sinai wilderness toward Canaan.

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Deuteronomy 32:15-30 mentions Abarim, Bashan, Canaan, Jericho, Jordan, Meribah, Moab and Zin.

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