Motif
Refusal to enter destined holy land and resulting wandering
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A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning family, within the sub-family Moral Causality and Consequence. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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The Koran (Al-Qur'an) PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 25973-26089 confidence: high
Moses tells his people to remember God's goodness in appointing prophets and kings and giving unprecedented gifts, and commands them to enter the holy land destined for them.
Moses' people refuse to enter the holy land because of mighty inhabitants; after refusal, the land is forbidden to them for forty years and they wander perplexed.
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