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Then
the whole
congregation lifted up their voices
and cried out,
and that
night
the people wept.
And
all
the congregation lifted up their voice,
and cried ;
and the people wept that
night
.
All the Israelites
grumbled
against Moses and Aaron ,
and the whole congregation said to
them, “If
only
we had died in the land of Egypt ,
or if
only
we had died in this wilderness!
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!
Why
is
the LORD bringing
us into
this land to fall by the sword ?
Our wives and children will
become
plunder.
Would
it not be
better for us to go
back
to
Egypt? ”
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?
So
they said to
one another, “
Let us appoint
a leader
and return to
Egypt. ”
And
they said one to
another, Let us make
a captain,
and let
us
return into
Egypt.
Then Moses and Aaron fell facedown
before the whole
assembly of the congregation of Israel.
Then Moses and Aaron fell on
their
faces
before all
the assembly of the congregation of the
children
of
Israel.
Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who
were among
those
who
had
spied
out
the land, tore
their clothes
And
Joshua the
son of Nun ,
and Caleb the
son of Jephunneh, which
were of
them
that
searched
the land, rent
their clothes :
and said
to
the whole
congregation
of Israel, “
The land we passed through and
explored
is an exceedingly
good land.
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.
If the LORD delights
in us, He will bring us into this land, a land flowing
with milk and honey ,
and
He
will
give
it
to
us
.
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.
Only do
not
rebel against the LORD, and
do
not
be
afraid
of
the people of the land ,
for they will
be
like
bread for us .
Their protection
has
been
removed
, and the LORD is with us .
Do
not
be
afraid
of
them !”
Only rebel not
ye
against the LORD, neither
fear
ye
the people of the land ;
for they are
bread for us :
their defense
is
departed
from
them
, and the LORD is with us :
fear
them not.
But the whole
congregation threatened
to
stone Joshua
and
Caleb
. Then
the glory of the LORD appeared to
all
the Israelites
at
the Tent
of Meeting
.
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
.
And the LORD said to
Moses, “
How long will this people treat
Me with
contempt
? How long will they refuse
to
believe in
Me, despite
all the signs I have performed
among them?
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?
I will strike
them with a
plague
and destroy
them —
and I
will make you
into
a nation
greater and mightier than they are
. ”
I will smite
them with the
pestilence,
and disinherit
them ,
and will make of
thee
a greater nation
and mightier than they.
But
Moses said to
the LORD, “
The Egyptians will
hear of
it, for by
Your
strength
You
brought
this people from among them .
And
Moses said unto
the LORD, Then
the Egyptians shall
hear it, (
for thou
broughtest
up
this people in
thy
might
from among them ;)
And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land .
They have already
heard that You,
O
LORD ,
are
in
the
midst
of
this people, that You,
O
LORD ,
have
been
seen face to face, that Your
cloud stands
over them, and that You
go
before them in a pillar of cloud by
day
and a pillar of fire by night.
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.
If You
kill this people as one man, the nations who
have heard of
Your
fame will say
,
Now
if thou
shalt
kill all
this people as one man, then
the nations which
have heard the
fame of
thee
will speak
, saying,
‘
Because the LORD was unable
to bring this people into the land He swore
to
give
them, He has
slaughtered
them in the wilderness. ’
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.
So
now I pray
, may
the power of my Lord be magnified
, just
as You
have
declared:
And
now ,
I beseech
thee
, let
the power of my Lord be great
, according
as thou
hast
spoken,
saying,
‘
The LORD is slow
to
anger
and abounding
in
loving
devotion
, forgiving iniquity and transgression .
Yet
He
will
by no means leave
the guilty unpunished;
He
will
visit
the iniquity of the fathers upon their
children to
the third and fourth generation. ’
The LORD is long-suffering,
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.
Pardon, I pray
, the iniquity of this people ,
in
keeping
with
the greatness of Your
loving
devotion
, just
as You
have
forgiven them
ever
since
they
left
Egypt. ”
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
.
“
I have pardoned them
as
you
requested,”
the
LORD
replied.
And
the
LORD
said,
I have pardoned according
to
thy
word:
“Yet
as surely
as I live and
as
surely
as
the whole
earth is
filled with the glory of the LORD ,
But
as truly
as I live ,
all
the earth shall
be
filled with the glory of the LORD .
not
one
of
the
men who
have seen My glory and the
signs
I performed
in Egypt and in the wilderness —yet
have
tested
Me
and disobeyed
Me these ten times —
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;
not one
will
ever
see the land that
I swore
to
give
their fathers .
None
of those
who
have
treated
Me with
contempt
will
see it .
Surely
they
shall
not see the land which
I sware
unto
their fathers ,
neither
shall
any
of them
that
provoked
me see it :
But because
My servant Caleb has
a
different
spirit and has
followed Me wholeheartedly
, I
will bring him
into the land he has
entered,
and his descendants
will
inherit
it.
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.
Now since
the Amalekites and Canaanites are
living
in the valleys,
turn
back
tomorrow and head
for
the wilderness along
the route
to
the Red Sea. ”
(
Now the Amalekites and the
Canaanites dwelt
in the valley.)
Tomorrow turn
you,
and get
you
into
the wilderness by
the way
of
the Red sea.
Then
the LORD said
to
Moses and Aaron,
And
the LORD spake
unto
Moses and unto
Aaron, saying,
“
How long will
this wicked
congregation grumble
against Me? I have heard the complaints
that
the Israelites
are
making
against Me.
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.
So
tell
them :
As surely
as I live, declares
the LORD, I
will do to you exactly
as
I
heard
you
say.
Say
unto
them ,
As truly
as I live, saith
the LORD, as
ye
have
spoken
in
mine
ears,
so
will I
do to you :
Your bodies
will
fall in this wilderness —
all who
were numbered in
the
census
, everyone
twenty years of
age
or
older—because
you
have grumbled
against Me.
Your carcasses
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.
Surely
none
of
you
will
enter
the land in
which I swore
to settle
you, except
Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
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.
But I
will
bring
your children
, whom
you
said would
become
plunder
, into
the land you
have rejected—and
they
will
enjoy
it
.
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
.
As for you, however,
your bodies
will
fall in this wilderness.
But
as for you, your carcasses,
they
shall
fall in this wilderness.
Your children will
be
shepherds
in the wilderness for
forty years, and they
will
suffer
for
your unfaithfulness
until the
last
of
your bodies
lies
in the wilderness.
And
your children shall
wander
in the wilderness forty years, and bear
your whoredoms,
until your carcasses
be
wasted
in the wilderness.
In
keeping
with
the forty
days you
spied
out
the land, you
shall bear your guilt
forty years —a
year
for
each
day—
and you
will
experience
My alienation
.
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
.
I ,
the LORD ,
have spoken
, and
I will surely do these
things
to
this entire
wicked
congregation, which
has
conspired
against Me .
They
will
meet
their
end
in the
wilderness, and there they will
die. ”
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.
So
the men Moses had
sent to spy
out
the land, who had
returned and made the whole
congregation grumble
against him by bringing out
a bad
report
about
the land —
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 ,
those men who
had
brought
out
the bad
report about
the land —were
struck
down
by a
plague before the LORD.
Even
those men that
did
bring
up
the evil
report upon
the land ,
died
by the
plague before the LORD.
Of
those
men
who
had
gone
to
spy
out
the
land,
only
Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh remained
alive
.
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
.
And when
Moses relayed
these words
to
all the Israelites,
the people mourned bitterly
.
And Moses told
these sayings
unto
all the children
of
Israel:
and
the people mourned greatly
.
Early the next
morning they
got
up
and went
up toward
the ridge
of the hill
country.
“We
have
indeed
sinned
, ”
they
said
, “but
we will go to
the place the LORD has
promised. ”
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
.
But
Moses said, “Why
are
you
transgressing
the commandment of the LORD? This
will
not succeed!
And
Moses said, Wherefore
now
do
ye
transgress
the commandment of the LORD? but
it
shall
not prosper.
Do
not
go up, lest
you
be
struck
down
by
your
enemies,
because
the LORD is not among you.
Go not
up, for
the LORD is not among you ;
that
ye
be
not
smitten
before
your
enemies
.
For there
the Amalekites and Canaanites will
face
you, and you
will
fall by the sword .
Because you
have
turned away from the LORD, He
will not be with you. ”
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.
But they dared
to go up to
the
ridge
of
the hill country,
though
neither
Moses
nor
the ark of the covenant of the LORD moved
from
the camp.
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.
Then the Amalekites and Canaanites who
lived
in that part
of
the
hill country
came
down
, attacked
them, and routed
them all
the
way
to
Hormah.
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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