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How can I my selfe alone beare your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?

And in the wildernes, where thou hast seene how that the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth beare his sonne, in all the way that ye went, vntil ye came into this place.

If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are moe then I, howe can I dispossesse them?

¶ Remember and forget not, how thou prouokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wildernesse: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, vntill ye came vnto this place, yee haue bene rebellious against the LORD.

And what hee did vnto the army of Egypt, vnto their horses, and to their charets, how he made the water of the Red sea to ouerflow them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD hath destroyed them vnto this day,

And what he did vnto Dathan, and Abiram, the sonnes of Eliab the sonne of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them vp, and their housholds, and their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession in the middest of all Israel.

1611 marginal noteOr, liuing substance which followed them.

1611 marginal noteHeb. was at their feet.

1611 marginal noteNum. 16.31. and 27.3. psal. 106.17.

Take heede to thy selfe that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee, and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serue their gods? euen so will I doe likewise.

1611 marginal noteHeb. after them.

And if thou say in thine heart, How shall wee know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?

How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, euen all that were feeble behinde thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.

(For ye know how we haue dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we came thorow the nations which ye passed by.