Numbers 14

And all the congregation ^alifted up their voice, and cried; and ^bthe people wept that night. ²And all the children of Israel ^cmurmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or ^dwould God we had died in this wilderness! ³and wherefore hath the Lord brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt? ⁴And they said one to another, ^eLet us make a captain, and ^flet us return into Egypt. ⁵Then ^gMoses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel. ⁶And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes: ⁷and they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, ^hThe land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land. ⁸If the Lord ⁱdelight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; ^ka land which floweth with milk and honey. ⁹Only ^lrebel not ye against the Lord, ^mneither fear ye the people of the land; for ⁿthey are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, ^oand the Lord is with us: fear them not. ^10pBut all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And ^qthe glory of the Lord appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel. ¹¹And the Lord said unto Moses, How long will this people ^rprovoke me? and how long will it be ere they ^sbelieve me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them? ¹²I will smite them with the pestilence, and ^tdisinherit them, and ^uwill make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they. ¹³And ^wMoses said unto the Lord, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;) ¹⁴and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for ^xthey have heard that thou Lord art among this people, that thou Lord art seen face to face, and that ^ythy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night. ¹⁵Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying, ¹⁶Because the Lord was not ^zable to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness. ¹⁷And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying, ¹⁸The Lord is ^alongsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, ^bvisiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation. ^19cPardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people ^daccording unto the greatness of thy mercy, and ^eas thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now. ²⁰And the Lord said, I have pardoned ^faccording to thy word: ²¹but as truly as I live, ^gall the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord. ^22hBecause all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now ⁱthese ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; ^23ksurely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it: ²⁴but my servant ^lCaleb, because he had another spirit with him, and ^mhath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it. ²⁵(Now ⁿthe Amalekites and ⁿthe Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To morrow turn you, and ^oget you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.

²⁶And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, ²⁷How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? ^pI have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me. ²⁸Say unto them, ^qAs truly as I live, saith the Lord, ^ras ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you: ²⁹your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and ^sall that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me, ³⁰doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, ^tsave Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. ^31uBut your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ^xye have despised. ³²But as for you, ^yyour carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness. ³³And your children shall ^zwander in the wilderness ^aforty years, and ^bbear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness. ^34cAfter the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even ^dforty days, each day for a year, shall ye ^ebear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise. ^35fI the Lord have said, I will surely do it unto all ^gthis evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die. ^36hAnd the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land, ³⁷even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, ⁱdied by the plague before the Lord. ^38kBut Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still. ³⁹And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people ^lmourned greatly.

⁴⁰And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, ^mwe be here, and will go up unto the place which the Lord hath promised: for we have sinned. ⁴¹And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye ⁿtransgress the commandment of the Lord? but it shall not prosper. ^42oGo not up, for the Lord is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies. ⁴³For ^pthe Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the Lord, therefore the Lord will not be with you. ^44qBut they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless ^rthe ark of the covenant of the Lord, and Moses, departed not out of the camp. ⁴⁵Then ^sthe Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto ^tHormah.

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