1 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept all that night.
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!
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?
4 And they
said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
5 Then Moses
and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of
the children of Israel.
6 And Joshua
the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that
searched the land, rent their clothes:
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.
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.
9 Only rebel
not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are
bread for us: their defence [the season (of
prosperity) is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.
10 But all
the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD
appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation [of witness] before all the children of Israel.
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 shewed among them?
12 I will
smite them with the pestilence [death],
and disinherit [destroy] them, and
will make of thee and of thy father's
house a greater nation and mightier than they.
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;)
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.
15 Now if
thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard
the fame of thee [thy name] will
speak, saying,
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.
17 And now,
I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great [be exalted], according as thou hast spoken, saying,
18 The LORD
is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving [removing] iniquity and transgression and sins, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the
iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
19 Pardon, I
beseech thee, the iniquity [sin] of
this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast
forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
20 And the
LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word:
21 But as
truly as I live and my name is living,
all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD.
22 Because
all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles [the signs], which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have
tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
23 Surely
they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any
of them that provoked me see it: but
their children which are with me here, as many as know not good or evil, every
inexperienced youth, to them will I give the land;
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 [inherit] it.
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.
26 And the
LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
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 [concerning you].
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:
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,
30 Doubtless
ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware [I stretched out my hand] to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the
son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
31 But your
little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in the land, and they shall know [inherit] the land which ye have
despised.
32 But as
for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.
33 And your
children shall wander [shall be fed] in
the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms [your fornication], until your carcases be wasted in the
wilderness.
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 [your
sins], even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise [my fierce anger].
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 utterly consumed, and there they shall
die.
36 And the
men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the
congregation to murmur against him [and
murmured against it to the assembly], by bringing up a slander upon the
land,
37 Even
those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague
before the LORD.
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.
39 And Moses
told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned
greatly.
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.
41 And Moses
said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall
not prosper.
42 Go not
up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smitten before the face of your enemies.
43 For the
Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the
sword: because ye have disobeyed, are
turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.
44 But they
presumed to go up unto the hill top [And
having forced their passage, they went up to the top of the mountain]:
nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out
of the camp.
45 Then the
Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote
them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah; and they returned to the camp.
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