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And all the
congregation lifted up their voice, and cried;
and the people wept that night.
02 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!
03 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?
04 And they said one to another, Let us
make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
05 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces
before all the assembly of the congregation of
the children of Israel.
06 And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the
son of Jephunneh, which were of them that
searched the land, rent their clothes:
07 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.
08 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.
09 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;
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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.) Tomorrow 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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