14Numbers 14

1All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.Select Numbers 14:1

2All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness!Select Numbers 14:2

3Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be captured or killed! Wouldn’t it be better for us to return into Egypt?”Select Numbers 14:3

4They said one to another, “Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.”Select Numbers 14:4

5Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.Select Numbers 14:5

6Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes.Select Numbers 14:6

7They spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, “The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceeding good land.Select Numbers 14:7

8If Yahweh delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey.Select Numbers 14:8

9Only don’t rebel against Yahweh, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us. Their defense is removed from over them, and Yahweh is with us. Don’t fear them.”Select Numbers 14:9

10But all the congregation threatened to stone them with stones. Yahweh’s glory appeared in the Tent of Meeting to all the children of Israel.Select Numbers 14:10

11Yahweh said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?Select Numbers 14:11

12I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”Select Numbers 14:12

13Moses said to Yahweh, “Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them.Select Numbers 14:13

14They will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you Yahweh are in the midst of this people; for you Yahweh are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them, and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.Select Numbers 14:14

15Now if you killed this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,Select Numbers 14:15

16‘Because Yahweh was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.’Select Numbers 14:16

17Now please let the power of the Lord be great, according as you have spoken, saying,Select Numbers 14:17

18‘Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’Select Numbers 14:18

19Please pardon the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your loving kindness, and according as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.”Select Numbers 14:19

20Yahweh said, “I have pardoned according to your word:Select Numbers 14:20

21but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with Yahweh’s glory;Select Numbers 14:21

22because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;Select Numbers 14:22

23surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who despised me see it.Select Numbers 14:23

24But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him I will bring into the land into which he went. His seed shall possess it.Select Numbers 14:24

25Since the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley, tomorrow turn, and go into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.”Select Numbers 14:25

26Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,Select Numbers 14:26

27“How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, that murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.Select Numbers 14:27

28Tell them, ‘As I live, says Yahweh, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you.Select Numbers 14:28

29Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me,Select Numbers 14:29

30surely you shall not come into the land, concerning which I swore that I would make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.Select Numbers 14:30

31But your little ones, that you said should be captured or killed, them I will bring in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.Select Numbers 14:31

32But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.Select Numbers 14:32

33Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies are consumed in the wilderness.Select Numbers 14:33

34After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, you will bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you will know my alienation.’Select Numbers 14:34

35I, Yahweh, have spoken. I will surely do this to all this evil congregation, who are gathered together against me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.”Select Numbers 14:35

36The 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,Select Numbers 14:36

37even those men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Yahweh.Select Numbers 14:37

38But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, remained alive of those men who went to spy out the land.Select Numbers 14:38

39Moses told these words to all the children of Israel, and the people mourned greatly.Select Numbers 14:39

40They rose up early in the morning, and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, “Behold, we are here, and will go up to the place which Yahweh has promised: for we have sinned.”Select Numbers 14:40

41Moses said, “Why now do you disobey the commandment of Yahweh, since it shall not prosper?Select Numbers 14:41

42Don’t go up, for Yahweh isn’t among you; that you not be struck down before your enemies.Select Numbers 14:42

43For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and you shall fall by the sword, because you turned back from following Yahweh, therefore Yahweh will not be with you.”Select Numbers 14:43

44But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain. Nevertheless, the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and Moses, didn’t depart out of the camp.Select Numbers 14:44

45Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites who lived in that mountain, and struck them and beat them down, even to Hormah.Select Numbers 14:45