nasb Numbers:6:1-21
nasb@Numbers:6:1 @Then all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night.
nasb@Numbers:6:2 @All the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron; and the whole congregation said to them, " Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness!
nasb@Numbers:6:3" @Why is the LORD bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become plunder; would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?"
nasb@Numbers:6:4 @So they said to one another, " Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt."
nasb@Numbers:6:5 @Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces in the presence of all the assembly of the congregation of the sons of Israel.
nasb@Numbers:6:6 @Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, of those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes;
nasb@Numbers:6:7 @and they spoke to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, saying, " The land which we passed through to spy out is an exceedingly good land.
nasb@Numbers:6:8" @ If the LORD is pleased with us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us-- a land which flows with milk and honey.
nasb@Numbers:6:9" @Only do not rebel against the LORD; and do not fear the people of the land, for they will be our prey. Their protection has been removed from them, and the LORD is with us; do not fear them."
nasb@Numbers:6:10 @But all the congregation said to stone them with stones. Then the glory of the LORD appeared in the tent of meeting to all the sons of Israel.
nasb@Numbers:6:11 @The LORD said to Moses, "How long will this people spurn Me? And how long will they not believe in Me, despite all the signs which I have performed in their midst?
nasb@Numbers:6:12" @I will smite them with pestilence and dispossess them, and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they."
nasb@Numbers:6:13 @But Moses said to the LORD, "Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your strength You brought up this people from their midst,
nasb@Numbers:6:14 @and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that You, O LORD, are in the midst of this people, for You, O LORD, are seen eye to eye, while Your cloud stands over them; and You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.
nasb@Numbers:6:15" @Now if You slay this people as one man, then the nations who have heard of Your fame will say,
nasb@Numbers:6:16 @'Because the LORD could not bring this people into the land which He promised them by oath, therefore He slaughtered them in the wilderness.'
nasb@Numbers:6:17" @But now, I pray, let the power of the Lord be great, just as You have declared,
nasb@Numbers:6:18 @' The LORD is slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generations.'
nasb@Numbers:6:19" @ Pardon, I pray, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of Your lovingkindness, just as You also have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now."
nasb@Numbers:6:20 @So the LORD said, " I have pardoned them according to your word;
nasb@Numbers:6:21 @but indeed, as I live, all the earth will be filled with the glory of the LORD.
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