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But when Moses saw how deeply they were affected with this defeat,
and being afraid lest the enemies should grow insolent upon this victory,
and should be desirous of gaining still greater glory, and should attack
them, he resolved that it was proper to withdraw the army into the wilderness
to a further distance from the Canaanites: so the multitude gave themselves
up again to his conduct, for they were sensible that, without his care
for them, their affairs could not be in a good condition; and he caused
the host to remove, and he went further into the wilderness, as intending
there to let them rest, and not to permit them to fight the Canaanites
before God should afford them a more favorable opportunity.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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