1 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
2 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!
3 And wherefore hath the
4 And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
6 And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh,
7 And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it,
8 If the
9 Only rebel not ye against the
10 But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the
11 And the
12 I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
13 And Moses said unto the
14 And they will tell
15 Now
16 Because the
17 And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,
18 The
19 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.
20 And the
21 But
22 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, and have not hearkened to my voice;
23 Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
24 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.
25 (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.
26 And the
27 How long
28 Say unto them,
29 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, which have murmured against me,
30 Doubtless ye shall not come into the land,
31 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.
32 But
33 And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
34 After the number of the days in which ye searched the land,
35 I the
36 And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,
37 Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the
38 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh,
39 And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.
40 And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we
41 And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the
42 Go not up, for the
43 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites
44 But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the
45 Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them,