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When he had spoken thus, he gave them the laws and the constitution
of government written in a book. Upon which the people fell into tears,
and appeared already touched with the sense that they should have a great
want of their conductor, because they remembered what a number of dangers
he had passed through, and what care he had taken of their preservation:
they desponded about what would come upon them after he was dead, and thought
they should never have another governor like him; and feared that God would
then take less care of them when Moses was gone, who used to intercede
for them. They also repented of what they had said to him in the wilderness
when they were angry, and were in grief on those accounts, insomuch that
the whole body of the people fell into tears with such bitterness, that
it was past the power of words to comfort them in their affliction. However,
Moses gave them some consolation; and by calling them off the thought how
worthy he was of their weeping for him, he exhorted them to keep to that
form of government he had given them; and then the congregation was dissolved
at that time.
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