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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 to them ,
O that we had died in the land of Egypt !
or O that we had died in this wilderness !
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And why hath the LORD brought us to 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 ,
who were of them that searched the land ,
rent their clothes :
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And they spoke to 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 delighteth in us ,
then he will bring us into this land ,
and give it to 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 defense has departed from them ,
and the LORD is with us :
fear them not .
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But all the congregation required to 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 to 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 shown 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 to the LORD ,
Then the Egyptians will 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 swore to 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 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 to the third and fourth generation .
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Pardon ,
I beseech thee ,
the iniquity of this people according to 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 who 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 to 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 into which 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 pass into the wilderness ,
by the way of the Red sea .
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And the LORD spoke to Moses and to 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 to them ,
As truly as I live ,
saith the LORD ,
as ye have spoken in my 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 ,
who have murmured against me ,
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Doubtless ye 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 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 carcasses ,
they shall fall in this wilderness .
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And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years ,
and bear your lewd deeds ,
until your carcasses shall be wasted in the wilderness .
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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 .
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I the LORD have said ,
I will surely do it to all this evil congregation ,
that are gathered against me :
in this wilderness ,
they shall be consumed ,
and there they shall die .
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And the men whom Moses sent to search the land ,
who returned ,
and made all the congregation to murmur against him ,
by bringing a slander upon the land ,
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Even those men that brought 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 ,
who were of the men that went to search the land ,
lived still .
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And Moses told these sayings to all the children of Israel :
and the people mourned greatly .
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And they rose early in the morning ,
and ascended to the top of the mountain ,
saying ,
Lo ,
we are here ,
and will go up to the place which the LORD hath promised :
for we have sinned .
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And Moses said ,
Why now do ye 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 ye be not smitten before your enemies .
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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 .
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But they presumed to go up to 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 smote them ,
and discomfited them ,
even to Hormah .