Numbers:14:1-39
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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 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 ?
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And they said one to another ,
Let us make a captain ro #
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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 Yisra #
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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 spake unto all the company of the children of Israel Yisra #
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saying ,
The land ,
which we passed through to search it ,
is an exceeding #
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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 floweth with milk and honey .
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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 .
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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 Yisra #
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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 ?
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I will smite them with the pestilence ,
and disinherit them ,
and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they .
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And Moses said unto the LORD ,
Then the Egyptians shall hear it , (
for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them ;)
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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 .
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Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man ,
then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak ,
saying ,
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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 .
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And now ,
I beseech thee ,
let the power of my Lord be great ,
according as thou hast spoken ,
saying ,
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The LORD is longsuffering #
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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 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 .
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And the LORD said ,
I have pardoned according to thy 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 pa #
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and have not hearkened to my voice ;
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Surely they shall not see the land which I sware 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 hath followed me fully ,
him will I bring into the land whereinto he went ;
and his seed shall possess it .
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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 .
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And the LORD spake 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 Yisra #
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which they murmur against me .
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Say unto them ,
As truly as I live ,
saith the LORD ,
as ye have spoken in mine ears ,
so will I do to you :
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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 #
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which have murmured against me ,
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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 .
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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 .
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But as for you ,
your carcases ,
they shall fall in this wilderness .
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And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty #
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years ,
and bear your whoredoms ,
until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness .
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After the number of the days in which ye searched the land ,
even forty #
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days ,
each day for a year shaneh #
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shall ye bear your iniquities ,
even forty #
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years ,
and ye shall know my breach of promise t @
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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 .
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And the men ,
which Moses sent to search the land ,
who returned ,
and made all the congregation to murmur (
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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 hem #
that went to search the land ,
lived still .
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And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel Yisra #
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and the people mourned greatly m @#
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