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& Then all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night.

& All the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and 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!

Num 14:3

& ~"Why is the LORD bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become plunder; would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?"

Num 14:4

& So they said to one another, "Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt."

Num 14:5

& Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces in the presence of all the assembly of the congregation of the sons of Israel.

Num 14:6

& Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, of those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes;

Num 14:7

& and they spoke to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, saying, "The land which we passed through to spy out is an exceedingly good land.

Num 14:8

& ~"If the LORD is pleased with us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us--a land which flows with milk and honey.

Num 14:9

& ~"Only do not rebel against the LORD; and do not fear the people of the land, for they will be our prey. Their protection has been removed from them, and the LORD is with us; do not fear them."

Num 14:10

& But all the congregation said to stone them with stones. Then the glory of the LORD appeared in the tent of meeting to all the sons of Israel.

Num 14:11

& The LORD said to Moses, "How long will this people spurn Me? And how long will they not believe in Me, despite all the signs which I have performed in their midst?

Num 14:12

& ~"I will smite them with pestilence and dispossess them, and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they."

Num 14:13

& But Moses said to the LORD, "Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your strength You brought up this people from their midst,

Num 14:14

& and they will tell {it} to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that You, O LORD, are in the midst of this people, for You, O LORD, are seen eye to eye, while 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.

Num 14:15

& ~"Now if You slay this people as one man, then the nations who have heard of Your fame will say,

Num 14:16

& `Because the LORD could not bring this people into the land which He promised them by oath, therefore He slaughtered them in the wilderness.'

Num 14:17

& ~"But now, I pray, let the power of the Lord be great, just as You have declared,

Num 14:18

& `The LORD is slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He will by no means clear {the guilty,} visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth {generations.}'

Num 14:19

& ~"Pardon, I pray, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of Your lovingkindness, just as You also have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now."

Num 14:20

& So the LORD said, "I have pardoned {them} according to your word;

Num 14:21

& but indeed, as I live, all the earth will be filled with the glory of the LORD.

Num 14:22

& ~"Surely all the men who have seen My glory and My signs which I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have put Me to the test these ten times and have not listened to My voice,

Num 14:23

& shall by no means see the land which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who spurned Me see it.

Num 14:24

& ~"But My servant Caleb, because he has had a different spirit and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land which he entered, and his descendants shall take possession of it.

Num 14:25

& ~"Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites live in the valleys; turn tomorrow and set out to the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea."

Num 14:26

& The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

Num 14:27

& "How long {shall I bear} with this evil congregation who are grumbling against Me? I have heard the complaints of the sons of Israel, which they are making against Me.

Num 14:28

& ~"Say to them, `As I live,' says the LORD, `just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will surely do to you;

Num 14:29

& your corpses will fall in this wilderness, even all your numbered men, according to your complete number from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against Me.

Num 14:30

& ~`Surely you shall not come into the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.

Num 14:31

& ~`Your children, however, whom you said would become a prey--I will bring them in, and they will know the land which you have rejected.

Num 14:32

& ~`But as for you, your corpses will fall in this wilderness.

Num 14:33

& ~`Your sons shall be shepherds for forty years in the wilderness, and they will suffer {for} your unfaithfulness, until your corpses lie in the wilderness.

Num 14:34

& ~`According to the number of days which you spied out the land, forty days, for every day you shall bear your guilt a year, {even} forty years, and you will know My opposition.

Num 14:35

& ~`I, the LORD, have spoken, surely this I will do to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. In this wilderness they shall be destroyed, and there they will die."'

Num 14:36

& As for the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land and who returned and made all the congregation grumble against him by bringing out a bad report concerning the land,

Num 14:37

& even those men who brought out the very bad report of the land died by a plague before the LORD.

Num 14:38

& But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive out of those men who went to spy out the land.