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The Book of Numbers 14

14 And all the congregation lifted up and gave their voice, and the people wept in that night. 2 And all the sons of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. And all the congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness! 3 And why is Yahweh bringing us to this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and our children will be for plunder. Is it not good for us to return to Egypt?”

4 And they said, a man to his brother, “Let us set a head, and let us return to Egypt.” 5 And Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before the face of all the assembly of the congregation of the sons of Israel, 6 and Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, from the ones who explored the land, tore their garments, 7 and they spoke to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, saying, “The land in which we passed through to explore it is a very exceedingly good land. 8 If Yahweh delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and he will give it to us, a land that is flowing with milk and honey. 9 Only you must not rebel against Yahweh, and you must not fear the people of the land, for they are our food. He has turned their shadow from over them, and Yahweh is with us. You must not fear them!” 10 And all the congregation said to stone them with stones. But the glory of Yahweh appeared in the tent of meeting to all the sons of Israel.

11 And Yahweh said to Moses, “Until when will this people spurn me? And until when will they not trust in me, despite all the signs that I have done in the midst of them? 12 I will strike him down with the plague, and I will disinherit him, and I will make you into a nation greater and more numerous than them.”

13 And Moses said to Yahweh, “And the Egyptians have heard that you brought this people up with your power from the midst of him. 14 And they have spoken to those dwelling in this land. They have heard that you, Yahweh, are in the midst of this people; that you, Yahweh, have been seen eye by eye, and your cloud is standing over them, and in a column of cloud you are going before their face by day and in a column of fire at night. 15 If you kill this people like one man, then the nations will say that they heard a report of you, saying, 16 ‘Because Yahweh was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to them, so he slaughtered them in the wilderness.’ 17 And now, please let the power of my Lord be great, just as you have spoken, saying, 18 ‘Yahweh is long of nostrils and abundant of covenant faithfulness, lifting up iniquity and transgression. But surely he will not leave unpunished, appointing the iniquity of fathers on sons, on thirds, and on fourths.’ 19 Please forgive this people of the iniquity according to the greatness of your covenant faithfulness, and just as you have lifted up this people, from Egypt and to here.”

20 And Yahweh said, “I have forgiven according to your word. 21 But truly, I live, and all the earth will be filled with the glory of Yahweh. 22 For all the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and they tested me this ten times and have not listened to my voice, 23 if they see the land that I have sworn to their fathers…and all those who spurn me will not see it. 24 But my servant Caleb, because another spirit is with him, and he was fully after me, I will bring him into the land that he will come to there, and his seed will inherit it. 25 (And the Amalekite and the Canaanite were dwelling in the valley.) Tomorrow turn and set out for yourselves to the wilderness, the way of the Sea of Reeds.”

26 And Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 27 “Until when must I listen to this evil congregation, they who are murmuring against me the murmurings of the sons of Israel, they who are murmuring against me? 28 Say to them, ‘As I live,’–the declaration of Yahweh–‘surely just as you have spoken in my ears, so I will do to you: 29 In this wilderness your corpses will fall and all your counted ones according to all your number, from a son of 20 years and upward, who have murmured against me. 30 If you enter into the land that I have lifted up my hand to make you dwell in … except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun, 31 and your children who you said would be for plunder; and I will bring them, and they will know the land, it that you have rejected. 32 And you, your corpses will fall in this wilderness, 33 and your sons will be those who herd in the wilderness 40 years, and they will carry your fornications until the finishing of your corpses in the wilderness. 34 By the number of the days that you explored the land, 40 days, a day for the year, a day for the year, you will carry your iniquities 40 years. And you will know my opposition. 35 I, Yahweh, have spoken. Surely I will do this to all this evil congregation, the ones who have congregated themselves against me. In this wilderness they will finish, and there they will die.’ ”

36 And the men whom Moses had sent to explore the land and had returned and caused all the congregation to murmur against him by causing an evil report against the land to go out, 37 even the men who had caused to go out the evil report of the evil land, died by the plague before the face of Yahweh. 38 But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh lived from those men, the ones who went to explore the land.

39 And Moses spoke these words to all the sons of Israel, and the people mourned exceedingly, 40 and they rose early in the morning and went up to the head of the mountain, saying, “Here we are, and we will go up to the place that Yahweh has said, for we have sinned.” 41 And Moses said, “Why this—are you passing over the mouth of Yahweh? And it will not succeed. 42 You must not go up, because Yahweh is not in the midst of you, that you not be struck down before the face of your enemies. 43 For the Amalekite and the Canaanite are there before your face, and you will fall by the sword, for you have turned from after Yahweh, and therefore Yahweh will not be with you.” 44 And they presumed to go up to the head of the mountain, but the box of the covenant of Yahweh and Moses did not depart from the midst of the camp. 45 And the Amalekite and the Canaanite who dwelled on that mountain, came down. And they smote them and beat them to pieces as far as the Hormah.

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