Numbers
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1 And all the congregation lifted up their
voice, and cried; and the people wept 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 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 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, and disinherit them, and will make
of thee 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 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, according
as thou hast spoken, saying, 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. 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.
20 And the LORD said, I have pardoned
according to thy word: 21 But as truly as
I live, 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, 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: 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. 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. 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 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, and they shall know 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 in the wilderness forty years, and bear your
whoredoms, 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, even
forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise. 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.
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, 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 your enemies. 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. 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.
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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