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* And all the congregation lifted up their voice , and cried ; and the people wept that night . * 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 ! * 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 ? * And they said one to another , Let us make a captain ro #sh #, and let us return into Egypt . * Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel Yisra #el #. * And Joshua the son of Nun , and Caleb the son of Jephunneh , which were of them that searched the land , rent their clothes : * And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel Yisra #el #, saying , The land , which we passed through to search it , is an exceeding #H3966good land . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 Yisra #el #. * 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 ? * I will smite them with the pestilence , and disinherit them , and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they . * And Moses said unto the LORD , Then the Egyptians shall hear it , (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them ;) * 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 . * Now if thou shalt kill all this people as 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 land which he sware unto them , therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness . * And now , I beseech thee , let the power of my Lord be great , according as thou hast spoken , saying , * The LORD is longsuffering #H639 , 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 . * 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 . * And the LORD said , I have pardoned according to thy word : * But as truly as I live , 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 ten times pa #am #, and have not hearkened to my voice ; * Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers , neither shall any of them that provoked me see it : * 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 . * (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 . * And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron , saying , * How long shall I bear with this evil congregation , which murmur against me ? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel Yisra #el #, which they murmur against me . * Say unto them , As truly as I live , saith the LORD , as ye have spoken in mine ears , so will I do to you : * 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 ma #al #, which have murmured against me , * Doubtless ye shall not come into the land , concerning which I sware yad # to make you dwell therein , save Caleb the son of Jephunneh , and Joshua the son of Nun . * 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 . * But as for you , your carcases , they shall fall in this wilderness . * And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty #arba #iym # years , and bear your whoredoms , until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness . * After the number of the days in which ye searched the land , even forty #arba #iym # days , each day for a year shaneh # yowm #, shall ye bear your iniquities , even forty #arba #iym # years , and ye shall know my breach of promise t @nuw #ah #. * I the LORD have said , I will surely #H3808do it unto all this evil congregation , that are gathered together against me : in this wilderness they shall be consumed , and there they shall die . * And the men , which Moses sent to search the land , who returned , and made all the congregation to murmur (8675 ) against him , by bringing up a slander upon the land , * Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land , died by the plague before the LORD . * But Joshua the son of Nun , and Caleb the son of Jephunneh , which were of the men hem # that went to search the land , lived still . * And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel Yisra #el #: and the people mourned greatly m @#od #. * 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 . * And Moses said , Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD ? but it shall not prosper . * Go not up , for the LORD is not among you ; that ye be not smitten before your enemies . * 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 . * But they presumed to go up unto the hill top ro #sh #: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD , and Moses , departed not out of the camp . * Then the Amalekites came down , and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill , and smote them , and discomfited them , even unto Hormah .

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