Genesis 4:5-7
5but afor Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his face fell. 6The Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry, and why has your face fallen? 7 bIf you do well, will you not be accepted? ▼▼Hebrew will there not be a lifting up [of your face]?
And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. dIts desire is contrary to ▼▼Or is toward
you, but you must rule over it.” Genesis 4:13-14
13Cain said to the Lord, “My fpunishment is greater than I can bear. ▼▼Or My guilt is too great to bear
14Behold, hyou have driven me today away from the ground, and ifrom your face I shall be hidden. I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, jand whoever finds me will kill me.” Leviticus 26:41
41so that I walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies—if then their kuncircumcised heart is lhumbled and they make amends for their iniquity,Leviticus 26:43
43But mthe land shall be abandoned by them and enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them, and they shall make amends for their iniquity, because they spurned my rules and their soul abhorred my statutes.Numbers 16:41
41But on the next day all the congregation of the people of Israel ngrumbled against Moses and against Aaron, saying, “You have killed the people of the Lord.”Numbers 17:12
12And the people of Israel said to Moses, “Behold, we perish, we are undone, we are all undone.Joshua 7:6-13
6Then Joshua otore his clothes and pfell to the earth on his face before the ark of the Lord until the evening, he and the elders of Israel. And they put qdust on their heads. 7And Joshua said, “Alas, O Lord God, rwhy have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to give us into the hands of the Amorites, to destroy us? Would that we had been content to dwell beyond the Jordan! 8O Lord, what can I say, when Israel has turned their backs before their enemies! 9For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it and will surround us and scut off our name from the earth. And what will you do for your great name?”The Sin of Achan
10The Lord said to Joshua, “Get up! Why have you fallen on your face? 11Israel has sinned; they have ttransgressed my covenant that I commanded them; they have taken some of the udevoted things; they have stolen and lied and put them among their own belongings. 12 vTherefore the people of Israel cannot stand before their enemies. They wturn their backs before their enemies, because they have become xdevoted for destruction. ▼▼That is, set apart ( devoted) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)
I will be with you no more, unless you destroy zthe devoted things from among you. 13Get up! Consecrate the people and say, aa‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow; for thus says the Lord, God of Israel, “There are devoted things in your midst, O Israel. You cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the devoted things from among you.”
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