Numbers 14:1-24 ▼

1 And all the assembly will lift up and give their voice; and the people will weep in that night.

2 And all the children of Israel will murmur against Moses, and against Aaron; and all the assembly will say to them, Would we died in the land of Egypt! or in this desert would that we died!

3 And wherefore does Jehovah bring us to this land to fall by the sword? our wives and our little ones shall be for a prey. Would it not be good for us to turn back to Egypt?

4 And they will say, a man to his brother, We will give a head, and turn back to Egypt.

5 And Moses will fall, and Aaron, upon their faces before all the gathering of the assembly of the sons of Israel.

6 And Joshua, son of Nun, and Caleb, son of Jephunneh, from those searching out the land, tare their garments.

7 And they will speak to all the assembly of the sons of Israel, saying, The land which we passed over upon it to search it out, a good land exceedingly, exceedingly,

8 If Jehovah delight in us, and he brought us to this land, and he gave it to us; a land which it flowing with milk and honey.

9 But against Jehovah ye shall not rebel, and ye shall not be afraid of the people of the land; for they our bread: for their shadow removed from them and Jehovah with us; ye shall not be afraid of them.

10 And all the assembly will say to stone them with stones. And the glory of Jehovah was seen in the tent of appointment to all the sons of Israel.

11 And Jehovah will say to Moses How long will this people reject me and how long will they not believe in me by all the signs which I did in the midst of them?

12 I will strike them with death, and I will destroy them, and I will make thee into a great nation, and strong above them.

13 And Moses will say to Jehovah, And the Egyptians heard, for thou didst bring up with thy strength this people from the midst of them;

14 And they will say to those dwelling upon this land; they heard that thou Jehovah art in the midst of this people who wert seen eye to eye; thou Jehovah and thy cloud stood over them, and in a pillar of cloud thou goest before them by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.

15 And didst thou kill this people as one man, and the nations spake who heard thy fame, saying,

16 Because Jehovah will not be able to bring in this people to the land which he sware to them, he will slay them in the desert.

17 And now shall the strength of the Lord be great, as thou spakest, saying,

18 Jehovah, slow to anger and of great kindness, lifting up iniquity and transgression and cleansing, will not cleanse; striking the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons, upon the third, and upon the fourth.

19 Forgive now the sin of this people according to thy great kindness, and as thou didst lift up to this people, and even till now.

20 And Jehovah will say, I pardoned according to thy word:

21 But yet I live, and the glory of Jehovah shall fill all the earth.

22 For all the men having seen my glory and my signs which I did in Egypt and in the desert, and they will try me this ten times, they heard not to my voice.

23 If they shall see the land which I sware to their fathers, and all despising me shall not see it.

24 And my servant Caleb, because another spirit was with him, and he will follow after me, and I brought him into the land which he went there; and his seed shall inherit it.