Numbers:14

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* And all the congregation lifted up their voice , and cried ; and the (note :)Those who were afraid at the report of the ten spies .(:note ) people wept that night . * And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron : and the whole assemblie said vnto them , Would God we had died in the land of Egypt , or in this wildernesse : would God we were dead . * And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land , to fall by the sword , that our wives and our children should be (note :)To our enemies the Canaanites .(:note ) a prey ? were it not better for us to return into Egypt ? * And they said one to another , Let vs make a Captaine and returne into Egypt . * Then Moses and Aaron (note :)Lamenting the people , and praying for them .(:note ) fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel . * And Joshua the son of Nun , and Caleb the son of Jephunneh , [which were ] of them that searched the land , (note :)For sorrow , hearing their blasphemy .(:note ) rent their clothes : * And spake vnto all the assemblie of the childre of Israel , saying , The land which we walked through to search it , is a very good lande . * If the Lorde loue vs , he will bring vs into this land , and giue it vs , which is a land that floweth with milke and honie . * Only rebel not ye against the LORD , neither fear ye the people of the land ; for they [are ] (note :)We shall easily overcome them .(:note ) bread for us : their defence is departed from them , and the LORD [is ] with us : fear them not . * But all the congregation bade (note :)This is the condition of those who would persuade in God 's cause , to be persecuted by the multitude .(:note ) stone them with stones . And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel . * And the Lord said vnto Moses , How long will this people prouoke me , and howe long will it be , yer they beleeue me , for al the signes which I haue shewed among them ? * I will smite them with the pestilence and destroy them , and will make thee a greater nation and mightier then they . * But Moses saide vnto the Lorde , When the Egyptians shall heare it , (for thou broughtest this people by thy power from among them ) * Then they shall say to the inhabitants of this land , (for they haue heard that thou , Lorde , art among this people , and that thou , Lorde , art seene face to face , and that thy cloude standeth ouer them , and that thou goest before them by day time in a pillar of a cloude , and in a pillar of fire by night ) * Now [if ] thou shalt kill [all ] this people as (note :)So that none shall escape .(:note ) one man , then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak , saying , * Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the lande , which he sware vnto them , therefore hath he slaine them in the wildernesse . * And now , I beseech thee , let the power of my Lorde be great , according as thou hast spoken , saying , * The Lord is slowe to anger , and of great mercie , and forgiuing iniquitie , and sinne , but not making the wicked innocent , and visiting the wickednes of the fathers vpon the children , in the thirde and fourth generation : * Be mercifull , I beseech thee , vnto the iniquitie of this people , according to thy great mercie , and as thou hast forgiuen this people from Egypt , euen vntill nowe . * And the LORD said , I have pardoned (note :)In that he did not utterly destroy them , but allowed their children and certain others to enter .(:note ) according to thy word : * Notwithstanding , as I liue , all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord . * 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 (note :)That is , various times and often .(:note ) ten times , and have not hearkened to my voice ; * Certainely they shall not see the lande , whereof I sware vnto their fathers : neither shall any that prouoke me , see it . * But my servant Caleb , because he had another (note :)A meek and obedient spirit , and not rebellious .(:note ) spirit with him , and hath followed me fully , him will I bring into the land whereinto he went ; and his seed shall possess it . * (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites (note :)And lie in wait for you .(:note ) dwelt in the valley .) To morrow turn you , and get you into the For I will not defend you . wilderness by the way of the Red sea . * After , the Lorde spake vnto Moses and to Aaron , saying , * How long shall I suffer this wicked multitude to murmure against me ? I haue heard the murmurings of the children of Israel , which they murmure against me . * Tell them , As I liue (saith the Lorde ) I wil surely do vnto you , euen as ye haue spoken in mine eares . * Your carkeises shall fall in this wildernes , and all you that were counted through all your nombers , from twentie yeere olde and aboue , which haue murmured against me , * Ye shall not doubtles come into the land , for the which I lifted vp mine hande , to make you dwell therein , saue Caleb the sonne of Iephunneh , and Ioshua the sonne of Nun . * But your children , (which ye said shoulde be a pray ) them will I bring in , and they shall knowe the lande which ye haue refused : * But euen your carkeises shall fall in this wildernes , * And your children shall (note :)The word signifies to be shepherds , or to wander like shepherds to and fro .(:note ) wander in the wilderness forty years , and bear your Your infidelity and disobedience against God . whoredoms , until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness . * 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 (note :)Whether my promise is true or not .(:note ) shall know my breach of promise . * I the Lord haue said , Certainely I will doe so to all this wicked company , that are gathered together against me : for in this wildernesse they shall be consumed , and there they shall die . * And the men which Moses had sent to search the land (which , when they came againe , made all the people to murmure against him , and brought vp a slander vpon the lande ) * Euen those men that did bring vp that vile slander vpon the land , shall die by a plague before the Lorde . * But Ioshua the sonne of Nun , and Caleb the sonne of Iephunneh , of those men that went to search the land , shall liue . * Then Moses tolde these sayings vnto all the children of Israel , and the people sorowed greatly . * 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 (note :)They confessed their sin in rebelling against God , but did not consider their offence in going up without God 's commandment .(:note ) sinned . * But Moses said , Wherefore transgresse yee thus the commandement of the Lorde ? it will not so come well to passe . * Goe not vp (for the Lorde is not among you ) lest ye be ouerthrowe before your enemies . * For the Amalekites &amp ; the Canaanites are there before you , and ye shall fall by the sworde : for in as much as ye are turned away from the Lord , the Lord also will not be with you . * But they (note :)They could not be stayed by any means .(:note ) 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 . * Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites , which dwelt in that mountaine , came downe &amp ; smote them , &amp ; consumed them vnto Hormah .

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