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Chapter 14

1Then all the congregation raised a loud cry, and the people wept that night. 2And all the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron. 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! 3Why is the LORD bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become a prey. Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?” 4And they said to one another, “Let us choose a leader and go back to Egypt.” 5Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the people of Israel. 6And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had explored the land, tore their garments 7and spoke to all the congregation of the people of Israel, saying, “The land, which we passed through to explore, is a an exceedingly good land. 8If the LORD delights in us, he will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land that flows with milk and honey. 9Only do not rebel against the LORD. And do not fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us. Their protection is removed from them, and the LORD is with us; do not fear them.” 10But all the congregation said to stone them with stones. Then the glory of the LORD appeared at the tent of meeting to all the people of Israel. 11And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? And how long will they not believe in me, in spite of all the signs that I have done among them? 12I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.” 13But Moses said to the LORD, “Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for you brought up this people in your might from among them, 14and they will tell 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 face to face, and 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. 15Now if you kill this people as one man, then the nations who have heard your fame will say, 16‘Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to give them, therefore he has struck them down in the wilderness.’ 17And now, please let the power of the Lord be great, just as you have promised, 18‘The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, 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 to the fourth generation.’ 19Please pardon the iniquity of this people, according to the greatness of your steadfast love, just as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.” 20Then the LORD said, “I have pardoned, according to your word. 21But truly, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD, 22none of the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have put me to the test these ten times and have not obeyed my voice, 23shall see the land that I swore to give to their fathers. None of those who despised me shall see it. 24But my servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed me fully, I will bring into the land that he went to, and his descendants shall possess it. 25Now, since the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valleys, turn tomorrow and set out for the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.” 26The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 27“How long shall this wicked congregation grumble against me? I have heard the grumblings of the people of Israel, which they grumble against me. 28Say to them, ‘As I live, declares the LORD, what you have said in my hearing I will do to you: 29your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and of all your number, listed by enrollment, from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against me, 30not one of you shall come into the land where I swore that I would make you dwell, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun. 31But your little ones, who you said would become a prey, I will bring in, and they shall know the land that you have rejected. 32But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness. 33And your children shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years and shall suffer for your faithlessness, until your dead bodies are consumed in the wilderness. 34According to the number of the days in which you explored the land, forty days, a year for each day, you shall bear your iniquity forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.’ 35I the LORD have spoken; surely this will I do to all this wicked congregation that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall come to a full end, and there they shall die.” 36As for the men whom Moses sent to explore the land, who returned and made all the congregation grumble against him by bringing up a bad report about the land— 37the men who brought up the bad report about the land—died by plague before the LORD. 38Among those men who went to explore the land, only Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive. 39When Moses told these words to all the people of Israel, the people mourned greatly. 40And they rose early in the morning and went up to the heights of the hill country, saying, “We are ready to go up to the place that the LORD has promised, for we have sinned.” 41But Moses said, “Why now are you transgressing the command of the LORD, when that will not succeed? 42Do not go up, for the LORD is not among you, lest you be struck down before your enemies. 43For there the Amalekites and the Canaanites are before you, and you shall fall by the sword, because you have turned away from the LORD, and the LORD will not be with you.” 44But they presumed to go up to the heights of the hill country, even though the ark of the covenant of the LORD and Moses did not depart out of the camp. 45Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country came down and defeated them and pursued them as far as Hormah.