04:014:001 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and
the people wept that night.
04:014:002 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and
against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them,
Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God
we had died in this wilderness!
04:014:003 And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall
by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a
prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
04:014:004 And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let
us return into Egypt.
04:014:005 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the
assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
04:014:006 And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh,
which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:
04:014:007 And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel,
saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an
exceeding good land.
04:014:008 If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this
land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and
honey.
04:014:009 Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people
of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is
departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.
04:014:010 But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the
glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the
congregation before all the children of Israel.
04:014:011 And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people
provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for
all the signs which I have shewed among them?
04:014:012 I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them,
and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
04:014:013 And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear
it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from
among them;)
04:014:014 And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for
they have heard that thou LORD art among this people, that
thou LORD art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth
over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a
pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.
04:014:015 Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the
nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
04:014:016 Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the
land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in
the wilderness.
04:014:017 And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great,
according as thou hast spoken, saying,
04:014:018 The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving
iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the
guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children
unto the third and fourth generation.
04:014:019 Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according
unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven
this people, from Egypt even until now.
04:014:020 And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word:
04:014:021 But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the
glory of the LORD.
04:014:022 Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my
miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have
tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my
voice;
04:014:023 Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their
fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
04:014:024 But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him,
and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land
whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.
04:014:025 (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.)
Tomorrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way
of the Red sea.
04:014:026 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
04:014:027 How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which
murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children
of Israel, which they murmur against me.
04:014:028 Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have
spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
04:014:029 Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were
numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty
years old and upward which have murmured against me.
04:014:030 Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I
sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of
Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
04:014:031 But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them
will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have
despised.
04:014:032 But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this
wilderness.
04:014:033 And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years,
and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the
wilderness.
04:014:034 After the number of the days in which ye searched the land,
even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your
iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of
promise.
04:014:035 I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil
congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this
wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
04:014:036 And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who
returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him,
by bringing up a slander upon the land,
04:014:037 Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the
land, died by the plague before the LORD.
04:014:038 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh,
which were of the men that went to search the land, lived
still.
04:014:039 And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel:
and the people mourned greatly.
04:014:040 And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into
the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go
up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have
sinned.
04:014:041 And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment
of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.
04:014:042 Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not
smitten before your enemies.
04:014:043 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you,
and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away
from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.
04:014:044 But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the
ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out
of the camp.
04:014:045 Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt
in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto
Hormah.