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The Israelites did not enter into Canaan, their promised land, immediately as their faith was weak. They rejected the report of Joshua and Caleb who trusted in God. Consequently, the Israelites wandered in the wilderness, near their promised land, for forty years, never entering the Promised Land. It wasn't until all males over twenty died (except Joshua and Caleb) that they would be allowed to enter the Promised Land. God forbade Moses to enter or lead Israel into Canaan. Instead, it was Joshua, Moses' faithful aide who was chosen to lead them. Once they put their faith in God and obeyed him, they were allowed to enter their Promised Land. Compiler%u2019s Comment: While we wander here on earth, we must also be faithfully obedient to God in order to be reconciled and able to enter our Heavenly Promised Land. How many like Pharaoh thought they could continue on their journey without God? End Comment.God performed many miracles of blessing upon the Israelites, the most prominent being, the leading thousands of slaves toward a land promised years before to Abraham.Three months after they departed Egypt and around four hundred years after God's promise to Abraham the Israelites camped at Sinai. Here God appeared and delivered to Moses His commandments. %u201cThe Lord said to Moses, %u2018Come up to me on the mountain and stay here, and I will give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commands I have written for their instruction.%u2019%u201d(Exodus 24:12). We refer to them as the Ten Commandments and they are listed below. %u2022 %u201cYou shall have no other gods before me. %u2022 %u201cYou shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.:%u2022 %u201cYou shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.%u2022 %u201cRemember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore, the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.%u2022 %u201cHonor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you. %u2022 %u201cYou shall not murder. %u2022 %u201cYou shall not commit adultery.%u2022 %u201cYou shall not steal.