I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, where they were living as resident foreigners.

I have also heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered my covenant.

But Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also and did not release the people.

Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and said, “Go, serve the Lord – only your flocks and herds will be detained. Even your families may go with you.”

If you do this thing, and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all these people will be able to go home satisfied.”

The Lord said to Moses, “I will do this thing also that you have requested, for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.”

Also you may buy slaves from the children of the foreigners who reside with you, and from their families that are with you, whom they have fathered in your land, they may become your property.

In spite of this, however, when they are in the land of their enemies I will not reject them and abhor them to make a complete end of them, to break my covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God.

Now the mixed multitude who were among them craved more desirable foods, and so the Israelites wept again and said, “If only we had meat to eat!

They told Moses, “We went to the land where you sent us. It is indeed flowing with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.

But the inhabitants are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover we saw the descendants of Anak there.

Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of the land that flows with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness? Now do you want to make yourself a prince over us?

“Bring with you your brothers, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, so that they may join with you and minister to you while you and your sons with you are before the tent of the testimony.

Now therefore, please stay the night here also, that I may know what more the Lord might say to me.”

The donkey saw me and turned from me these three times. If she had not turned from me, I would have killed you but saved her alive.”

Balaam said to Balak, “Did I not also tell your messengers whom you sent to me,

So the Lord our God did indeed give over to us King Og of Bashan and his whole army and we struck them down until not a single survivor was left.

For I was terrified at the Lord’s intense anger that threatened to destroy you. But he listened to me this time as well.

A person of illegitimate birth may not enter the assembly of the Lord; to the tenth generation no one related to him may do so.

An Ammonite or Moabite may not enter the assembly of the Lord; to the tenth generation none of their descendants shall ever do so,