Your children,however, whomyou saidwould becomea prey--I will bringthem in, and they will knowthe landwhichyou have rejected.
Then JacobgaveEsaubreadand lentilstew;and he ateand drank,and roseand wenton his way.Thus Esaudespisedhis birthright.
"So their sonsenteredand possessedthe land.And You subduedbeforethem the inhabitantsof the land,the Canaanites,And You gavethem into their hand,with their kingsand the peoplesof the land,To dowith them as they desired.
Then they despisedthe pleasantland;They did not believein His word,
And you neglectedallmy counselAnd did not wantmy reproof;
"They wouldnot acceptmy counsel,They spurnedallmy reproof.
"I saidto their childrenin the wilderness,Do not walkin the statutesof your fathersor keeptheir ordinancesor defileyourselves with their idols.
"Whyis the LORDbringingus into thisland,to fallby the sword?Our wivesand our littleoneswill becomeplunder;would it not be betterfor us to returnto Egypt?"
of Hezron,the familyof the Hezronites;of Carmi,the familyof the Carmites.
But among thesethere was not a manof those who were numberedby Mosesand Aaronthe priest,whonumberedthe sonsof Israelin the wildernessof Sinai.
"But they paid no attentionand went their way,oneto his ownfarm,anotherto his business,
BEHOLD,YOU SCOFFERS,AND MARVEL,AND PERISH;FOR I AM ACCOMPLISHINGA WORKIN YOUR DAYS,A WORKWHICHYOU WILL NEVERBELIEVE,THOUGHSOMEONESHOULD DESCRIBEIT TO YOU.'"
Moreover, your littleoneswhoyou saidwould becomea prey,and your sons,whothis dayhavenoknowledgeof goodor evil,shall enterthere,and I will giveit to them and they shall possessit.
Their childrenwhom He raisedup in their place,Joshuacircumcised;for they were uncircumcised,becausethey had not circumcisedthem along the way.
