Numbers:14
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And all the congregation lifted up their voice ,
and cried ;
and the people wept that night .
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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 !
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And wherefore has 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 ?
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And they said one to another ,
Let us make a captain ,
and let us return into Egypt .
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Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel .
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And Joshua the son of Nun ,
and Caleb the son of Jephunneh ,
which were of them that searched the land ,
rent their clothes :
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And they spoke unto all the company of the children of Israel ,
saying ,
The land ,
which we passed through to search it ,
is an exceeding good land .
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If the LORD delight in us ,
then he will bring us into this land ,
and give it us ;
a land which flows with milk and honey .
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Only rebel not all of you against the LORD ,
neither fear all of you 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 .
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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 .
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And the LORD said unto Moses ,
How long will this people provoke me ?
and how long will it be before they believe me ,
for all the signs which I have showed among them ?
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I will strike them with the pestilence ,
and disinherit them ,
and will make of you a greater nation and mightier than they .
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And Moses said unto the LORD ,
Then the Egyptians shall hear it , (
for you brought up this people in your might from among them ;)
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And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land :
for they have heard that you LORD are among this people ,
that you LORD are seen face to face ,
and that your cloud stands over them ,
and that you go before them ,
by day time in a pillar of a cloud ,
and in a pillar of fire by night .
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Now if you shall kill all this people as one man ,
then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak ,
saying ,
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Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore unto them ,
therefore he has slain them in the wilderness .
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And now ,
I plead to you ,
let the power of my LORD be great ,
according as you have spoken ,
saying ,
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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 .
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Pardon ,
I plead to you ,
the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of your mercy ,
and as you have forgiven this people ,
from Egypt even until now .
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And the LORD said ,
I have pardoned according to your word :
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But as truly as I live ,
all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD .
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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 ;
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Surely they shall not see the land which I swore unto their fathers ,
neither shall any of them that provoked me see it :
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But my servant Caleb ,
because he had another spirit with him ,
and has followed me fully ,
him will I bring into the land into where he went ;
and his seed shall possess it .
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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 .
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And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron ,
saying ,
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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 .
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Say unto them ,
As truly as I live ,
says the LORD ,
as all of you have spoken in mine ears ,
so will I do to you :
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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 .
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Doubtless all of you shall not come into the land ,
concerning which I swore to make you dwell therein ,
save Caleb the son of Jephunneh ,
and Joshua the son of Nun .
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But your little ones ,
which all of you said should be a prey ,
them will I bring in ,
and they shall know the land which all of you have despised .
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But as for you ,
your carcasses ,
they shall fall in this wilderness .
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And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years ,
and bear your whoredoms ,
until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness .
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After the number of the days in which all of you searched the land ,
even forty days ,
each day for a year ,
shall all of you bear your iniquities ,
even forty years ,
and all of you shall know my breach of promise .
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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 .
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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 ,
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Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land ,
died by the plague before the LORD .
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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 .
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And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel :
and the people mourned greatly .
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And they rose up early in the morning ,
and got them up into the top of the mountain ,
saying ,
Lo ,
we be here ,
and will go up unto the place which the LORD has promised :
for we have sinned .
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And Moses said ,
Wherefore now do all of you transgress the commandment of the LORD ?
but it shall not prosper .
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Go not up ,
for the LORD is not among you ;
that all of you be not smitten before your enemies .
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For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you ,
and all of you shall fall by the sword :
because all of you are turned away from the LORD ,
therefore the LORD will not be with you .
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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 .
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Then the Amalekites came down ,
and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill ,
and stroke them ,
and humiliated them ,
even unto Hormah .