14:1 And all the congregation lifted up
their voice and cried; and the people wept all that night.
14:2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron; and
all the congregation said to them,
14:3 Would we had died in the land of Egypt! or in this wilderness, would we
had died! and why does the Lord bring us into this land to fall in war? our
wives and our children shall be for a prey: now then t is better to return
into Egypt.
14:4 And they said one to another, Let us make a ruler, and return into
Egypt.
14:5 And Moses and Aaron fell upon their face before all the congregation of
the children of Israel.
14:6 But Joshua the [son] of Naue, and Chaleb the [son] of Jephonne, of [the
number of] them that spied out the land, rent their garments,
14:7 and spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying,
The land which we surveyed is indeed extremely good.
14:8 If the Lord choose us, he will bring us into this land, and give it us;
a land which flows with milk and honey.
14:9 Only depart not from the Lord; and fear ye not the people of the land,
for they are meat for us; for the season [of prosperity] is departed from
them, but the Lord [is] among us: fear them not.
14:10 And all the congregation bade stone them with stones; and the glory of
the Lord appeared in the cloud on the tabernacle of witness to all the
children of Israel.
14:11 And the Lord said to Moses, How long does this people provoke me? and
how long do they refuse to believe me for all the signs which I have wrought
among them?
14:12 I will smite them with death, and destroy them; and I will make of
thee and of thy father's house a great nation, and much greater than this.
14:13 And Moses said to the Lord, So Egypt shall hear, for thou hast brought
up this people from them by thy might.
14:14 Moreover all the dwellers upon this land have heard that thou art Lord
in the midst of this people, who, O Lord, art seen [by them] face to face,
and thy cloud rests upon them, and thou goest before them by day in a pillar
of a cloud, and by night in a pillar of fire.
14:15 And [if] thou shalt destroy this nation as one man; then all the
nations that have heard thy name shall speak, saying,
14:16 Because the Lord could not bring this people into the land which he
sware to them, he has overthrown them in the wilderness.
14:17 And now, O Lord, let thy strength be exalted, as thou spakest, saying,
14:18 The Lord [is] long-suffering and merciful, and true, removing
transgressions and iniquities and sins, and he will by no means clear the
guilty, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and
fourth generation.
14:19 Forgive this people their sin according to thy great mercy, as thou
wast favourable to them from Egypt until now.
14:20 And the Lord said to Moses, I am gracious to them according to thy
word.
14:21 But [as] I live and my name is living, so the glory of the Lord shall
fill all the earth.
14:22 For all the men who see my glory, and the signs which I wrought in
Egypt, and in the wilderness, and have tempted me this tenth time, and have
not hearkened to my voice,
14:23 surely they shall not see the land, which I sware to their fathers;
but their children which are with me here, as many as know not good or evil,
every inexperienced youth, to them will I give the land; but none who have
provoked me shall see it.
14:24 But my servant Chaleb, because there was another spirit in him, and he
followed me, I will bring him into the land into which he entered, and his
seed shall inherit it.
14:25 But Amalec and the Chananite dwell in the valley: to-morrow turn and
depart for the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.
14:26 And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
14:27 How long [shall I endure] this wicked congregation? I have heard their
murmurings against me, [even] the murmuring of the children of Israel, which
they have murmured concerning you.
14:28 Say to them, [As] I live, saith the Lord: surely as ye spoke into my
ears, so will I do to you.
14:29 Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all those of you that
were reviewed, and those of you that were numbered from twenty years old and
upward, all that murmured against me,
14:30 ye shall not enter into the land for which I stretched out my hand to
establish you upon it; except only Chaleb the son of Jephonne, and Joshua
the [son] of Naue.
14:31 And your little ones, who ye said should be a prey, them will I bring
into the land; and they shall inherit the land, wich ye rejected.
14:32 And your carcases shall fall in this wilderness.
14:33 And your sons shall be fed in the wilderness forty years, and they
shall bear your fornication, until your carcases be consumed in the
wilderness.
14:34 According to the number of the days during which ye spied the land,
forty days, a day for a year, ye shall bear your sins forty years, and ye
shall know my fierce anger.
14:35 I the Lord have spoken, Surely will I do thus to this evil
congregation that has risen up together against me: in this wilderness they
shall be utterly consumed, and there they shall die.
14:36 And the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, and who came and
murmured against it to the assembly so as to bring out evil words concerning
the land,--
14:37 the men that spoke evil reports against the land, even died of the
plague before the Lord.
14:38 And Joshua the son of Naue and Chaleb the son of Jephonne [still]
lived of those men that went to spy out the land.
14:39 And Moses spoke these words to all the children of Israel; and the
people mourned exceedingly.
14:40 And they rose early in the morning and went up to the top of the
mountain, saying, Behold, we that are here will go up to the place of which
the Lord has spoken, because we have sinned.
14:41 And Moses said, Why do ye transgress the word of the Lord? ye shall
not prosper.
14:42 Go not up, for the Lord is not with you; so shall ye fall before the
face of your enemies.
14:43 For Amalec and the Chananite [are] there before you, and ye shall fall
by the sword; because ye have disobeyed the Lord and turned aside, and the
Lord will not be among you.
14:44 And having forced their passage, they went up to the top of the
mountain; but the ark of the covenant of the Lord and Moses stirred not out
of the camp.
14:45 And Amalec and the Chananite that dwelt in that mountain came down,
and routed them, and destroyed them unto Herman; and they returned to the
camp. |
14:1 And all the congregation lifted up
their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
14:2 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!
14:3 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?
14:4 And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return
into Egypt.
14:5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the
congregation of the children of Israel.
14:6 And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were
of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:
14:7 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.
14:8 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.
14:9 Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the
land; for they are bread for us: their defense is departed from them, and
the LORD is with us: fear them not.
14:10 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.
14:11 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
showed among them?
14:12 I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will
make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
14:13 And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for
thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;)
14:14 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.
14:15 Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations
which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
14:16 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.
14:17 And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according
as thou hast spoken, saying,
14:18 The LORD is long-suffering, 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.
14:19 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.
14:20 And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word:
14:21 But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory
of the LORD.
14:22 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;
14:23 Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers,
neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
14:24 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.
14:25 (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.
14:26 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
14:27 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.
14:28 Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken
in mine ears, so will I do to you:
14:29 Your carcasses 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.
14:30 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.
14:31 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.
14:32 But as for you, your carcasses, they shall fall in this wilderness.
14:33 And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear
your whoredoms, until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness.
14:34 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.
14:35 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.
14:36 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,
14:37 Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died
by the plague before the LORD.
14:38 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.
14:39 And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the
people mourned greatly.
14:40 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.
14:41 And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the
LORD? but it shall not prosper.
14:42 Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smitten
before your enemies.
14:43 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.
14:44 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.
14:45 Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that
hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah. |