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Chapter 14
Numb NHEBJE 14:1  All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
Numb NHEBJE 14:2  All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said to them, "Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this wilderness!
Numb NHEBJE 14:3  Why does Jehovah bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: wouldn't it be better for us to return into Egypt?"
Numb NHEBJE 14:4  They said one to another, "Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt."
Numb NHEBJE 14:5  Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
Numb NHEBJE 14:6  Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes:
Numb NHEBJE 14:7  and they 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.
Numb NHEBJE 14:8  If Jehovah delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey.
Numb NHEBJE 14:9  Only do not rebel against Jehovah, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defense is removed from over them, and Jehovah is with us. Do not fear them."
Numb NHEBJE 14:10  But all the congregation threatened to stone them with stones. The glory of Jehovah appeared in the Tent of Meeting to all the children of Israel.
Numb NHEBJE 14:11  Jehovah 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?
Numb NHEBJE 14:12  I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they."
Numb NHEBJE 14:13  Moses said to Jehovah, "Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them;
Numb NHEBJE 14:14  and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you Jehovah are in the midst of this people; for you Jehovah 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.
Numb NHEBJE 14:15  Now if you killed this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,
Numb NHEBJE 14:16  'Because Jehovah was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.'
Numb NHEBJE 14:17  Now please let the power of the Lord be great, according as you have spoken, saying,
Numb NHEBJE 14:18  'Jehovah 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.'
Numb NHEBJE 14:19  Please 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."
Numb NHEBJE 14:20  Jehovah said, "I have pardoned according to your word:
Numb NHEBJE 14:21  but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of Jehovah;
Numb NHEBJE 14:22  because 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;
Numb NHEBJE 14:23  surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who despised me see it:
Numb NHEBJE 14:24  but my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him will I bring into the land into which he went; and his seed shall possess it.
Numb NHEBJE 14:25  Now the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley: tomorrow turn, and go into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea."
Numb NHEBJE 14:27  "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.
Numb NHEBJE 14:28  Tell them, 'As I live, says Jehovah, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you:
Numb NHEBJE 14:29  your 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,
Numb NHEBJE 14:30  surely 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.
Numb NHEBJE 14:31  But your little ones, that you said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.
Numb NHEBJE 14:32  But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.
Numb NHEBJE 14:33  Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.
Numb NHEBJE 14:34  After 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.'
Numb NHEBJE 14:35  I, Jehovah, have spoken, surely this will I do to all this evil congregation, who are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die."
Numb NHEBJE 14:36  The 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,
Numb NHEBJE 14:37  even those men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Jehovah.
Numb NHEBJE 14:38  But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, remained alive of those men who went to spy out the land.
Numb NHEBJE 14:39  Moses told these words to all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.
Numb NHEBJE 14:40  They 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 Jehovah has promised: for we have sinned."
Numb NHEBJE 14:41  Moses said, "Why now do you disobey the commandment of Jehovah, since it shall not prosper?
Numb NHEBJE 14:42  Do not go up, for Jehovah isn't among you; that you not be struck down before your enemies.
Numb NHEBJE 14:43  For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and you shall fall by the sword: because you are turned back from following Jehovah, therefore Jehovah will not be with you."
Numb NHEBJE 14:44  But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, and Moses, did not depart out of the camp.
Numb NHEBJE 14:45  Then the Amalekite came down, and the Canaanite who lived in that mountain, and struck them and beat them down, even to Hormah.