14:1 Then all the congregation ①raised their voices and cried out, and the people wept ②that night.
▷ ①Lit raised and gave their voice ②Lit in that
14:2 And all the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron; and the entire congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or even if we had died in this wilderness!
14:3 So 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?”
14:4 So they said to one another, “Let’s appoint a leader and return to Egypt!”
14:5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces in the presence of all the assembly of the congregation of the sons of Israel.
14:6 And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, of those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes;
14:7 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.
14:8 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.
14:9 Only do not rebel against the LORD; and do not fear the people of the land, for they will be our ①prey. Their ②protection is gone from them, and the LORD is with us; do not fear them.”
▷ ①Lit food ②Lit shadow
14:10 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.
14:11 And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people be disrespectful to Me? And how long will they not ①believe in Me, despite all the signs that I have performed in their midst?
▷ ①Or trust in
14:12 I will strike them with ①plague and dispossess them, and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they.”
▷ ①Lit the plague
14:13 But Moses said to the LORD, “Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your strength You brought this people up from their midst,
14:14 and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that You, LORD, are in the midst of this people, because You, 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.
14:15 Now if You put this people to death ①all at once, then the nations who have heard of Your fame will ②say,
▷ ①Lit as one man ②Lit say, saying
14:16 ‘Since the LORD could not bring this people into the land which He promised them by oath, He slaughtered them in the wilderness.’
14:17 So now, please, let the power of the Lord be great, just as You have declared, saying,
14:18 ‘The LORD is slow to anger and abundant in mercy, forgiving wrongdoing and violation of His Law; but He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, inflicting the ①punishment of the fathers on the children ②to the third and the fourth generations.’
▷ ①I.e., punishment for the wrongdoing ②Lit on
14:19 Please forgive the guilt of this people in accordance with the greatness of Your mercy, just as You also have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.”
14:20 So the LORD said, “I have forgiven them in accordance with your word;
14:21 however, as I live, ①all the earth will be filled with the glory of the LORD.
▷ ①Lit and all
14:22 Certainly all the people who have seen My glory and My signs which I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have put Me to the test these ten times and have not listened to My voice,
14:23 shall by no means see the land which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who were disrespectful to Me see it.
14:24 But as for My servant Caleb, because he has had a different spirit and has followed Me fully, I will bring him into the land which he ①entered, and his ②descendants shall take possession of it.
▷ ①Lit entered there ②Lit seed
14:25 Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites live in the valleys; turn tomorrow and set out for the wilderness by the way of the ①Red Sea.”
▷ ①Lit Sea of Reeds
14:26 The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron again, saying,
14:27 “How long shall I put up with this evil congregation who are grumbling against Me? I have heard the complaints of the sons of Israel which they are ①voicing against Me.
▷ ①Lit complaining
14:28 Say to them, ‘As I live,’ declares the LORD, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you;
14:29 your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness, all your ①numbered men according to your complete number from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against Me.
▷ ①Lit mustered
14:30 By no means will you come into the land where I ①swore to settle you, except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.
▷ ①Lit raised My hand
14:31 Your children, however, whom you said would become plunder—I will bring them in, and they will know the land which you have rejected.
14:32 But as for you, your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness.
14:33 Also, your sons will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will ①suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your bodies perish in the wilderness.
▷ ①Lit bear
14:34 In accordance with the number of days that you spied out the land, forty days, for every day you shall suffer the punishment for your ①guilt a year, that is, forty years, and you will know My opposition.
▷ ①Or wrongdoings
14:35 I, the LORD, have spoken, I certainly will do this to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. They shall be worn out in this wilderness, and there they shall die.’ ”
14:36 As for the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, and who returned and led all the congregation to grumble against him by bringing a bad report about the land,
14:37 those men who brought the bad report of the land also died by a plague in the presence of the LORD.
14:38 But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive out of those men who went to spy out the land.
14:39 Now when Moses spoke these words to all the sons of Israel, the people mourned greatly.
14:40 In the morning, however, they got up early and went up to the ①ridge of the hill country, saying, “Here we are; and we will go up to the place which the LORD has ②promised, for ③we have sinned.”
▷ ①Or top of the mountain ②Lit said ③I.e., by lacking faith to go
14:41 But Moses said, “Why then are you violating the ①command of the LORD, when doing so will not succeed?
▷ ①Lit mouth
14:42 Do not go up, for the LORD is not among you, ①to prevent you from being defeated ②by your enemies.
▷ ①Lit so that you are not ②Lit before
14:43 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites will be there ①to confront you, and you will fall by the sword, since you have turned back from following the LORD. And the LORD will not be with you.”
▷ ①Lit before you
14:44 But they foolishly dared to go up to the ①ridge of the hill country; neither the ark of the covenant of the LORD nor Moses left the camp.
▷ ①Or top of the mountain
14:45 Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country came down, and struck them and scattered them as far as Hormah.
▷ ①Lit raised and gave their voice ②Lit in that
14:2 And all the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron; and the entire congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or even if we had died in this wilderness!
14:3 So 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?”
14:4 So they said to one another, “Let’s appoint a leader and return to Egypt!”
14:5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces in the presence of all the assembly of the congregation of the sons of Israel.
14:6 And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, of those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes;
14:7 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.
14:8 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.
14:9 Only do not rebel against the LORD; and do not fear the people of the land, for they will be our ①prey. Their ②protection is gone from them, and the LORD is with us; do not fear them.”
▷ ①Lit food ②Lit shadow
14:10 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.
14:11 And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people be disrespectful to Me? And how long will they not ①believe in Me, despite all the signs that I have performed in their midst?
▷ ①Or trust in
14:12 I will strike them with ①plague and dispossess them, and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they.”
▷ ①Lit the plague
14:13 But Moses said to the LORD, “Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your strength You brought this people up from their midst,
14:14 and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that You, LORD, are in the midst of this people, because You, 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.
14:15 Now if You put this people to death ①all at once, then the nations who have heard of Your fame will ②say,
▷ ①Lit as one man ②Lit say, saying
14:16 ‘Since the LORD could not bring this people into the land which He promised them by oath, He slaughtered them in the wilderness.’
14:17 So now, please, let the power of the Lord be great, just as You have declared, saying,
14:18 ‘The LORD is slow to anger and abundant in mercy, forgiving wrongdoing and violation of His Law; but He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, inflicting the ①punishment of the fathers on the children ②to the third and the fourth generations.’
▷ ①I.e., punishment for the wrongdoing ②Lit on
14:19 Please forgive the guilt of this people in accordance with the greatness of Your mercy, just as You also have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.”
14:20 So the LORD said, “I have forgiven them in accordance with your word;
14:21 however, as I live, ①all the earth will be filled with the glory of the LORD.
▷ ①Lit and all
14:22 Certainly all the people who have seen My glory and My signs which I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have put Me to the test these ten times and have not listened to My voice,
14:23 shall by no means see the land which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who were disrespectful to Me see it.
14:24 But as for My servant Caleb, because he has had a different spirit and has followed Me fully, I will bring him into the land which he ①entered, and his ②descendants shall take possession of it.
▷ ①Lit entered there ②Lit seed
14:25 Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites live in the valleys; turn tomorrow and set out for the wilderness by the way of the ①Red Sea.”
▷ ①Lit Sea of Reeds
14:26 The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron again, saying,
14:27 “How long shall I put up with this evil congregation who are grumbling against Me? I have heard the complaints of the sons of Israel which they are ①voicing against Me.
▷ ①Lit complaining
14:28 Say to them, ‘As I live,’ declares the LORD, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you;
14:29 your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness, all your ①numbered men according to your complete number from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against Me.
▷ ①Lit mustered
14:30 By no means will you come into the land where I ①swore to settle you, except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.
▷ ①Lit raised My hand
14:31 Your children, however, whom you said would become plunder—I will bring them in, and they will know the land which you have rejected.
14:32 But as for you, your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness.
14:33 Also, your sons will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will ①suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your bodies perish in the wilderness.
▷ ①Lit bear
14:34 In accordance with the number of days that you spied out the land, forty days, for every day you shall suffer the punishment for your ①guilt a year, that is, forty years, and you will know My opposition.
▷ ①Or wrongdoings
14:35 I, the LORD, have spoken, I certainly will do this to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. They shall be worn out in this wilderness, and there they shall die.’ ”
14:36 As for the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, and who returned and led all the congregation to grumble against him by bringing a bad report about the land,
14:37 those men who brought the bad report of the land also died by a plague in the presence of the LORD.
14:38 But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive out of those men who went to spy out the land.
14:39 Now when Moses spoke these words to all the sons of Israel, the people mourned greatly.
14:40 In the morning, however, they got up early and went up to the ①ridge of the hill country, saying, “Here we are; and we will go up to the place which the LORD has ②promised, for ③we have sinned.”
▷ ①Or top of the mountain ②Lit said ③I.e., by lacking faith to go
14:41 But Moses said, “Why then are you violating the ①command of the LORD, when doing so will not succeed?
▷ ①Lit mouth
14:42 Do not go up, for the LORD is not among you, ①to prevent you from being defeated ②by your enemies.
▷ ①Lit so that you are not ②Lit before
14:43 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites will be there ①to confront you, and you will fall by the sword, since you have turned back from following the LORD. And the LORD will not be with you.”
▷ ①Lit before you
14:44 But they foolishly dared to go up to the ①ridge of the hill country; neither the ark of the covenant of the LORD nor Moses left the camp.
▷ ①Or top of the mountain
14:45 Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country came down, and struck them and scattered them as far as Hormah.