Numbers 14
1 And all the
congregation lifted
up their
voice, and
cried; and the
people wept that
night. 2 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! 3 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? 4 And they
said one to
another, Let us
make a
captain, and let us
return into
Egypt. 5 Then
Moses and
Aaron fell on their
faces before all the
assembly of the
congregation of the
children of
Israel. 6 And
Joshua the
son of
Nun, and
Caleb the
son of
Jephunneh, which were of them that
searched the
land, rent their
clothes: 7 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. 8 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. 9 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.
10 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. 11 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?
12 I will
smite them with the
pestilence, and
disinherit them, and will
make of thee a
greater nation and
mightier than they.
13 And
Moses said unto the
LORD, Then the
Egyptians shall
hear it, (for thou broughtest
up this
people in thy
might from
among them;)
14 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. 15 Now if thou shalt
kill all this
people as
one man, then the
nations which have
heard the
fame of thee will
speak,
saying,
16 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. 17 And now, I beseech thee, let the
power of my
Lord be
great,
according as thou hast
spoken,
saying,
18 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.
19 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. 20 And the
LORD said, I have
pardoned according to thy
word: 21 But as
truly as I
live, all the
earth shall be
filled with the
glory of the
LORD. 22 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; 23 Surely they shall
not see the
land which I
sware unto their
fathers, neither shall any of them that
provoked me
see it:
24 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.
25 (Now the
Amalekites and the
Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To
morrow turn you, and
get you into the
wilderness by the
way of the
Red sea. 26 And the
LORD spake unto
Moses and unto
Aaron, saying,
27 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.
28 Say unto them, As truly
as I
live, saith the
LORD, as ye have
spoken in mine
ears, so will I
do to you:
29 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,
30 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. 31 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.
32 But as for you, your
carcases, they shall
fall in this
wilderness. 33 And your
children shall
wander in the
wilderness forty years, and
bear your
whoredoms, until your
carcases be
wasted in the
wilderness. 34 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. 35 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.
36 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, 37 Even
those men that did bring
up the
evil report upon the
land, died by the
plague before the
LORD. 38 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.
39 And
Moses told these
sayings unto all the
children of
Israel: and the
people mourned greatly. 40 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.
41 And
Moses said, Wherefore now do ye
transgress the
commandment of the
LORD? but it shall not
prosper.
42 Go not
up, for the
LORD is not
among you; that ye be not
smitten before your
enemies.
43 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.
44 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. 45 Then the
Amalekites came
down, and the
Canaanites which
dwelt in that
hill, and
smote them, and
discomfited them, even unto
Hormah.