Numbers 14 — ENGLXXUP

14 Verse 1 And all the congregation lifted up their voice and cried; and the people wept all that night. ^{Verse 2} And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron; and all the congregation said to them, ^{Verse 3} Would we had died in the land of Egypt! or in this wilderness, would we had died! and why does the Lord bring us into this land to fall in war? our wives and our children shall be for a prey: now then it is better to return into Egypt. ^{Verse 4} And they said one to another, Let us make a ruler, and return into Egypt. ^{Verse 5} And Moses and Aaron fell upon their face before all the congregation of the children of Israel. ^{Verse 6} But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, of the number of them that spied out the land, rent their garments, ^{Verse 7} and spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, The land which we surveyed is indeed extremely good. ^{Verse 8} If the Lord choose us, he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which flows with milk and honey. ^{Verse 9} Only depart not from the Lord; and fear ye not the people of the land, for they are meat for us; for the season of prosperity is departed from them, but the Lord is among us: fear them not. ^{Verse 10} And all the congregation bade stone them with stones; and the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud on the tabernacle of witness to all the children of Israel. ^{Verse 11} And the Lord said to Moses, How long does this people provoke me? and how long do they refuse to believe me for all the signs which I have wrought among them? ^{Verse 12} I will smite them with death, and destroy them; and I will make of thee and of thy father’s house a great nation, and much greater than this. ^{Verse 13} And Moses said to the Lord, So Egypt shall hear, for thou hast brought up this people from them by thy might. ^{Verse 14} Moreover all the dwellers upon this land have heard that thou art Lord in the midst of this people, who, O Lord, art seen by them face to face, and thy cloud rests upon them, and thou goest before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, and by night in a pillar of fire. ^{Verse 15} And if thou shalt destroy this nation as one man; then all the nations that have heard thy name shall speak, saying, ^{Verse 16} Because the Lord could not bring this people into the land which he swore to them, he has overthrown them in the wilderness. ^{Verse 17} And now, O Lord, let thy strength be exalted, as thou spokest, saying, ^{Verse 18} The Lord is long-suffering and merciful, and true, removing transgressions and iniquities and sins, and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation. ^{Verse 19} Forgive this people their sin according to thy great mercy, as thou wast favorable to them from Egypt until now. ^{Verse 20} And the Lord said to Moses, I am gracious to them according to thy word. ^{Verse 21} But as I live and my name is living, so the glory of the Lord shall fill all the earth. ^{Verse 22} For all the men who see my glory, and the signs which I wrought in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and have tempted me this tenth time, and have not hearkened to my voice, ^{Verse 23} surely they shall not see the land, which I swore to their fathers; but their children which are with me here, as many as know not good or evil, every inexperienced youth, to them will I give the land; but none who have provoked me shall see it. ^{Verse 24} But my servant Caleb, because there was another spirit in him, and he followed me, I will bring him into the land into which he entered, and his seed shall inherit it. ^{Verse 25} But Amalek and the Canaanite dwell in the valley: tomorrow turn and depart for the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea. ^{Verse 26} And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, ^{Verse 27} How long shall I endure this wicked congregation? I have heard their murmurings against me, even the murmuring of the children of Israel, which they have murmured concerning you. ^{Verse 28} Say to them, As I live, saith the Lord: surely as ye spoke into my ears, so will I do to you. ^{Verse 29} Your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness; and all those of you that were reviewed, and those of you that were numbered from twenty years old and upward, all that murmured against me, ^{Verse 30} ye shall not enter into the land for which I stretched out my hand to establish you upon it; except only Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. ^{Verse 31} And your little ones, who ye said should be a prey, them will I bring into the land; and they shall inherit the land, which ye rejected. ^{Verse 32} And your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness. ^{Verse 33} And your sons shall be fed in the wilderness forty years, and they shall bear your fornication, until your carcasses be consumed in the wilderness. ^{Verse 34} According to the number of the days during which ye spied the land, forty days, a day for a year, ye shall bear your sins forty years, and ye shall know my fierce anger. ^{Verse 35} I the Lord have spoken, Surely will I do thus to this evil congregation that has risen up together against me: in this wilderness they shall be utterly consumed, and there they shall die. ^{Verse 36} And the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, and who came and murmured against it to the assembly so as to bring out evil words concerning the land— ^{Verse 37} the men that spoke evil reports against the land, even died of the plague before the Lord. ^{Verse 38} And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh still lived of those men that went to spy out the land. ^{Verse 39} And Moses spoke these words to all the children of Israel; and the people mourned exceedingly. ^{Verse 40} And they rose early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, Behold, we that are here will go up to the place of which the Lord has spoken, because we have sinned. ^{Verse 41} And Moses said, Why do ye transgress the word of the Lord? ye shall not prosper. ^{Verse 42} Go not up, for the Lord is not with you; so shall ye fall before the face of your enemies. ^{Verse 43} For Amalek and the Canaanite are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword; because ye have disobeyed the Lord and turned aside, and the Lord will not be among you. ^{Verse 44} And having forced their passage, they went up to the top of the mountain; but the ark of the covenant of the Lord and Moses stirred not out of the camp. ^{Verse 45} And Amalek and the Canaanite that dwelt in that mountain came down, and routed them, and destroyed them unto Hormah; and they returned to the camp.