~Numbers 14:1 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, andcried; and the people wept that night.
~Numbers 14:2 And all the children of Israel murmured againstMoses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said untothem, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that wehad died in this wilderness!
~Numbers 14:3 And wherefore doth Jehovah bring us unto this land,to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey:were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
~Numbers 14:4 And they said one to another, Let us make a captain,and let us return into Egypt.
~Numbers 14:5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before allthe assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
~Numbers 14:6 And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son ofJephunneh, who were of them that spied out the land, rent theirclothes:
~Numbers 14:7 and they spake unto all the congregation of thechildren of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to spyit out, is an exceeding good land.
~Numbers 14:8 If Jehovah delight in us, then he will bring us into thisland, and give it unto us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
~Numbers 14:9 Only rebel not against Jehovah, neither fear ye thepeople of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is removedfrom over them, and Jehovah is with us: fear them not.
~Numbers 14:10 But all the congregation bade stone them withstones. And the glory of Jehovah appeared in the tent of meeting untoall the children of Israel.
~Numbers 14:11 And Jehovah said unto Moses, How long will thispeople despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for allthe signs which I have wrought among them?
~Numbers 14:12 I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinheritthem, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.
~Numbers 14:13 And Moses said unto Jehovah, Then the Egyptianswill hear it; for thou broughtest up this people in thy might fromamong them;
~Numbers 14:14 and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land.They have heard that thou Jehovah art in the midst of this people; forthou Jehovah art seen face to face, and thy cloud standeth over them,and thou goest before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillarof fire by night.
~Numbers 14:15 Now if thou shalt kill this people as one man, thenthe nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
~Numbers 14:16 Because Jehovah was not able to bring this peopleinto the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain themin the wilderness.
~Numbers 14:17 And now, I pray thee, let the power of the Lord begreat, according as thou hast spoken, saying,
~Numbers 14:18 Jehovah is slow to anger, and abundant inlovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; and that will byno means clear [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers uponthe children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.
~Numbers 14:19 Pardon, I pray thee, the iniquity of this peopleaccording unto the greatness of thy lovingkindness, and according asthou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
~Numbers 14:20 And Jehovah said, I have pardoned according to thyword:
~Numbers 14:21 but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shallbe filled with the glory of Jehovah;
~Numbers 14:22 because all those men that have seen my glory, andmy signs, which I wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet havetempted me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
~Numbers 14:23 surely they shall not see the land which I sware untotheir fathers, neither shall any of them that despised me see it:
~Numbers 14:24 but my servant Caleb, because he had another spiritwith him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the landwhereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.
~Numbers 14:25 Now the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in thevalley: to-morrow turn ye, and get you into the wilderness by the wayto the Red Sea.
~Numbers 14:26 And Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Aaron,saying,
~Numbers 14:27 How long [shall I bear] with this evil congregation,that murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the childrenof Israel, which they murmur against me.
~Numbers 14:28 Say unto them, As I live, saith Jehovah, surely as yehave spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
~Numbers 14:29 your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and allthat were numbered of you, according to your whole number, fromtwenty years old and upward, that have murmured against me,
~Numbers 14:30 surely ye shall not come into the land, concerningwhich I sware that I would make you dwell therein, save Caleb theson of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
~Numbers 14:31 But your little ones, that ye said should be a prey,them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye haverejected.
~Numbers 14:32 But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in thiswilderness.
~Numbers 14:33 And your children shall be wanderers in thewilderness forty years, and shall bear your whoredoms, until yourdead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.
~Numbers 14:34 After the number of the days in which ye spied outthe land, even forty days, for every day a year, shall ye bear youriniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my alienation.
~Numbers 14:35 I, Jehovah, have spoken, surely this will I do unto allthis evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in thiswilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
~Numbers 14:36 And the men, whom Moses sent to spy out the land,who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him,by bringing up an evil report against the land,
~Numbers 14:37 even those men that did bring up an evil report ofthe land, died by the plague before Jehovah.
~Numbers 14:38 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son ofJephunneh, remained alive of those men that went to spy out the land.
~Numbers 14:39 And Moses told these words unto all the children ofIsrael: and the people mourned greatly.
~Numbers 14:40 And they rose up early in the morning, and gat themup to the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we are here, and will go upunto the place which Jehovah hath promised: for we have sinned.
~Numbers 14:41 And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgressthe commandment of Jehovah, seeing it shall not prosper?
~Numbers 14:42 Go not up, for Jehovah is not among you; that ye benot smitten down before your enemies.
~Numbers 14:43 For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are beforeyou, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned back fromfollowing Jehovah, therefore Jehovah will not be with you.
~Numbers 14:44 But they presumed to go up to the top of themountain: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, andMoses, departed not out of the camp.
~Numbers 14:45 Then the Amalekite came down, and the Canaanitewho dwelt in that mountain, and smote them and beat them down,even unto Hormah
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