NU-14:1 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and
cried; and the
people wept that night.
NU-14:2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses
and against
Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that
we had died
in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this
wilderness!
NU-14:3 And 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?
NU-14:4 And they said one to another, Let us make a captain,
and let us
return into Egypt.
NU-14:5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the
assembly of
the congregation of the children of Israel.
NU-14:6 And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of
Jephunneh, [which
were] of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:
NU-14:7 And they spake unto all the company of the children of
Israel,
saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, [is] an
exceeding good
land.
NU-14:8 If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into
this land, and
give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
NU-14:9 Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the
people of the
land; for they [are] bread for us: their defence is departed
from them, and
the LORD [is] with us: fear them not.
NU-14:10 But all the congregation bade stone them with stones.
And the glory
of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation
before all the
children of Israel.
NU-14:11 And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this
people provoke me?
and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs
which I have
showed among them?
NU-14:12 I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit
them, and will
make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
NU-14:13 And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall
hear [it],
(for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;
)
NU-14:14 And they will tell [it] to the inhabitants of this
land: [for] they
have heard that thou LORD [art] among this people, that thou
LORD art seen
face to face, and [that] thy 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.
NU-14:15 Now [if] thou shalt kill [all] this people as one man,
then the
nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
NU-14:16 Because the LORD was not able to bring this people
into the land
which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the
wilderness.
NU-14:17 And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my LORD be
great,
according as thou hast spoken, saying,
NU-14:18 The LORD [is] longsuffering, and of great mercy,
forgiving iniquity
and transgression, and by no means clearing [the guilty],
visiting the
iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and
fourth
[generation].
NU-14:19 Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people
according unto
the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this
people, from Egypt
even until now.
NU-14:20 And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy
word:
NU-14:21 But [as] truly [as] I live, all the earth shall be
filled with the
glory of the LORD.
NU-14:22 Because 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 these ten
times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
NU-14:23 Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto
their fathers,
neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
NU-14:24 But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit
with him, and
hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto
he went; and
his seed shall possess it.
NU-14:25 (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the
valley.) To
morrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of
the Red sea.
NU-14:26 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
NU-14:27 How long [shall I bear with] this evil congregation,
which murmur
against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of
Israel, which they
murmur against me.
NU-14:28 Say unto them, [As truly as] I live, saith the LORD,
as ye have
spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
NU-14:29 Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all
that were
numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty
years old and
upward, which have murmured against me,
NU-14:30 Doubtless ye shall not come into the land,
[concerning] which I
sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh,
and Joshua
the son of Nun.
NU-14:31 But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey,
them will I
bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.
NU-14:32 But [as for] you, your carcases, they shall fall in
this wilderness.
NU-14:33 And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty
years, and
bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the
wilderness.
NU-14:34 After the number of the days in which ye searched the
land, [even]
forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities,
[even] forty
years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.
NU-14:35 I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all
this evil
congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this
wilderness they
shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
NU-14:36 And 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,
NU-14:37 Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon
the land, died
by the plague before the LORD.
NU-14:38 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of
Jephunneh, [which
were] of the men that went to search the land, lived [still].
NU-14:39 And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of
Israel: and
the people mourned greatly.
NU-14:40 And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up
into the top
of the mountain, saying, Lo, we [be here], and will go up unto
the place which
the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned.
NU-14:41 And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the
commandment of
the LORD? but it shall not prosper.
NU-14:42 Go not up, for the LORD [is] not among you; that ye be
not smitten
before your enemies.
NU-14:43 For the 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.
NU-14:44 But they presumed to go up unto the hill top:
nevertheless the ark
of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the
camp.
NU-14:45 Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites
which dwelt in
that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, [even] unto
Hormah.
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