Numbers 14

1 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried, and the people wept that night.

Wherefore the whole multitude crying wept that night.

2 And all the sons of Israel murmured against Moses and against 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!

And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying:

3 And why does Jehovah bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey. Were it not better for us to return into Egypt?

Would God that we had died in Egypt and would God we may die in this vast wilderness, and that the Lord may not bring us into this land, lest we fall by the sword, and our wives and children be led away captives. Is it not better to return into Egypt?

4 And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.

And they said one to another: Let us appoint 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 sons of Israel.

And when Moses and Aaron heard this, they fell down flat upon the ground before the multitude of the children of Israel.

6 And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes.

But Josue the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephone, who themselves also had viewed the land, rent their garments,

7 And they spoke to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land.

And said to all the multitude of the children of Israel: The land which we have gone round is very good:

8 If Jehovah delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us, a land which flows with milk and honey.

If the Lord be favourable, he will bring us into it, and give us a land flowing with milk and honey.

9 Only do not rebel against Jehovah, neither fear ye the people of the land, for they are bread for us. Their defense is removed from over them, and Jehovah is with us. Fear them not.

Be not rebellious against the Lord: and fear ye not the people of this land, for we are able to eat them up as bread. All aid is gone from them: the Lord is with us, fear ye not.

10 But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of Jehovah appeared in the tent of meeting to all the sons of Israel.

And when all the multitude cried out, and would have stoned them, the glory of the Lord appeared over the tabernacle of the covenant to all the children of Israel.

11 And Jehovah said to Moses, How long will this people despise me? And how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have wrought among them?

And the Lord said to Moses: How long will this people detract me? how long will they not believe me for all the signs that I have wrought before them?

12 I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.

I will strike them therefore with pestilence, and will consume them: but thee I will make a ruler over a great nation, and a mightier than this is.

13 And Moses said to Jehovah, Then the Egyptians will hear it, for thou brought up this people in thy might from among them,

And Moses said to the Lord: That the Egyptians, from the midst of whom thou hast brought forth this people,

14 and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that thou Jehovah are in the midst of this people, for thou Jehovah are seen face to face, and thy cloud stands over them, and thou go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.

And the inhabitants of this land, (who have heard that thou, O Lord, art among this people, and art seen face to face, and thy cloud protecteth them, and thou goest before them in a pillar of a cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night, )

15 Now if thou shall kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,

May hear that thou hast killed so great a multitude as it were one man and may say:

16 Because Jehovah was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.

He could not bring the people into the land for which he had sworn, therefore did he kill them in the wilderness.

17 And now, I pray thee, let the power of the Lord be great, according as thou have spoken, saying,

Let their the strength of the Lord be magnified, as thou hast sworn, saying:

18 Jehovah is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.

The Lord is patient and full of mercy, taking away iniquity and wickedness, and leaving no man clear, who visitest the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.

19 Pardon, I pray thee, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of thy loving kindness, and according as thou have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.

Forgive, I beseech thee, the sins of this people, according to the greatness of thy mercy, as thou hast been merciful to them from their going out of Egypt unto this place.

20 And Jehovah said, I have pardoned according to thy word,

And the Lord said: I have forgiven according to thy word.

21 but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of Jehovah,

As I live: and the whole earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord.

22 because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have challenged me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice,

But yet all the men that have seen my majesty, and the signs that I have done in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now ten times, and have not obeyed my voice,

23 surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of them who despised me see it.

Shall not see the land for which I aware to their fathers, neither shall any one of them that hath detracted me behold it.

24 But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him will I bring into the land into which he went, and his seed shall possess it.

My servant Caleb, who being full of another spirit hath followed me, I will bring into this land which he hath gone round: and his seed shall possess it.

25 Now the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley. Tomorrow turn ye, and get you into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.

For the Amalecite and the Chanaanite dwell in the valleys. Tomorrow remove the camp, and return into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.

26 And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:

27 How long shall I bear with this evil congregation that murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the sons of Israel, which they murmur against me.

How long doth this wicked multitude murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel.

28 Say to them, As I live, says Jehovah, surely as ye have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you.

Say therefore to them: As I live, saith the Lord: According as you have spoken in my hearing, so will I do to you.

29 Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness. And all who were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me,

In the wilderness shall your carcasses lie. All you that were numbered from twenty years old and upward, and have murmured against me,

30 surely ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I swore that I would make you dwell in it, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

Shall not enter into the land, over which I lifted up my bend to make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephone, and Josue the son of Nun.

31 But your little ones, that ye said would be a prey, them I will bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have rejected.

But your children, of whom you said, that they should be a prey to the enemies, will I bring in: that they may see the land which you have despised.

32 But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.

Your carcasses shall lie in the wilderness.

33 And your sons shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whoredoms, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.

Your children shall wander in the desert forty years, and shall bear your fornication, until the carcasses of their fathers be consumed ill the desert,

34 After the number of the days in which ye spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, ye shall bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my alienation.

According to the number of the forty days, wherein you viewed the land: year shall be counted for a day. And forty years you shall receive your iniquities, and shall know my revenge:

35 I, Jehovah, have spoken, surely I will do this to all this evil congregation that are gathered together against me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.

For as I have spoken, so will I do to all this wicked multitude, that hath risen up together against me: in this wilderness shall it faint away and die.

36 And the men, whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him by bringing up an evil report against the land,

Therefore all the men, whom Moses had sent to view the land, and who at their return had made the whole multitude to murmur against him, speaking ill of the land that it was naught,

37 even those men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Jehovah.

Died and were struck in the sight of the Lord.

38 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, remained alive of those men who went to spy out the land.

But Josue. the son of Nun. and Caleb the son of Jephone lived, of all them that had gone to view the land.

39 And Moses told these words to all the sons of Israel, and the people mourned greatly.

And Moses spoke all these words to all the children of Israel, and the people mourned exceedingly.

40 And they rose up early in the morning, and got up to the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we are here, and will go up to the place which Jehovah has promised, for we have sinned.

And behold rising up very early in the morning, they went up to the top of the mountain, and said: We are ready to go up to the place, of which the Lord hath spoken: for we have sinned.

41 And Moses said, Why do ye now transgress the commandment of Jehovah, seeing it shall not prosper?

And Moses said to them: Why transgress you the word of the Lord, which shall not succeed prosperously with you?

42 Do not go up, for Jehovah is not among you, that ye be not smitten down before your enemies.

Go not up, for the Lord is not with you: lest you fall before your enemies.

43 For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and ye shall fall by the sword. Because ye have turned back from following Jehovah, therefore Jehovah will not be with you.

The Amalecite and the Chanaanite are before you, and by their sword you shall fall, because you would not consent to the Lord, neither will the Lord be with you.

44 But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain, nevertheless the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, and Moses, did not depart out of the camp.

But they being blinded went up to the top of the mountain. But the ark of the testament of the Lord and Moses departed not from the camp.

45 Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites who dwelt in that mountain, and smote them and beat them down, even to Hormah.

And the Amalecite came down, and the Chanaanite that dwelt in the mountain: and smiting and slaying them pursued them as far as Horma.