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Audio Interchange File Format  |  1996-02-23  |  2.0 MB  |  1 channel  |  22,050 sample rate  |  46 seconds
Transcription: For once, nearly everyone in the Israelite camp was jubilant. They stood, eager as children, at the edge of the long-awaited land. Moses, however, held back, unable to share the spirit of optimism. For forty years he had led this cranky tribe, and he knew them too well to think that a change in scenery would alter their old ways. A doleful sense of fatalism hangs over these last chapters of Deuteronomy. The Israelites had failed far too often, they were doomed to fail again. Aware of the significance of this His last chance to impress upon the Israelites the seriousness of their covenant with ...