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The Jewish people had been promised the far side of the Jordan River, all the land between that river and the Mediterranean Sea. They had seen it before, only to be turned away in a welter of tears and recrimination. They\u2019d crossed one sea, and when they forded the river and their sandals squished into the dirt on the other side their journey would be over. Everything to the East of the River would become the past, streaked with miracles but also shrouded in suffering; the slave power Egypt, the desert itself, the cities of Chaldees from which Abraham emerged, metropoles so old that their founding was coterminous with the making of the world. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Something funny happened on the way to crossing the river, though. The tribes of Reuben and Gad and half of Manasseh found their cows mooing with satisfaction, and the soil to be rich and fertile between their fingers. For a nation that had moved in lockstep through the desert after building Pharaoh\u2019s public works in miserable solidarity, this is the first instance of true divergence, as the call of business and family and homesteading ensure that a River will run through the camp of Israel. It is an admission that in the course of things the edge of the Promised Land can be more attractive than its hilly and sacred center, and that we don\u2019t always choose where our feet ache to rest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The deal Moses strikes is one that seeks to midwife the journey from confederation of tribes to nation bound by compact and protected by universal conscription. It balances the right of every man to choose his home with the responsibility to protect all the homes that aren\u2019t yours. 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