Numbers 14

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

Wherefore the whole multitude crying wept that night.

2 And all the people murmured against Moses and against Aaron; and the whole congregation said unto them, Oh who would grant that we had died in the land of Egypt! or that we might but die in this wilderness!

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

3 And wherefore doth the Lord bring us unto yonder land, to fall by the sword? that our wives and our children may become a prey? is it not better for us to return to 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 appoint a chief, and let us return to Egypt.

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

5 Then fell Moses and Aaron on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children 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 Yephunneh, of those that had spied out the land, rent their garments.

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 said unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, as followeth, The land, through which we have passed to spy it out, this land is exceedingly good.

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

8 If the Lord have delight in us, then will he bring us into this land, and give it to us: a land which is flowing 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 against the Lord do ye not rebel; and then ye need not fear the people of the land; for they are our bread: their shadow is departed from them, while the Lord 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 said to stone them with stones: when the glory of the Lord appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation unto all the children 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 the Lord said unto Moses, How long yet shall this people provoke me? and how long yet will they not believe in me, with all the signs which I have shown in the midst of 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 root them out, and I 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 unto the Lord, But when the Egyptian hear, from the midst of whom thou hast brought up in thy might this people; —

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

14 And when they tell to the inhabitants of this land, who have heard that thou, Lord, art in the midst of this people, that face to face thou, Lord, art seen, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that in a pillar of cloud thou goest before them 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 That thou hast killed this people as one man: then will the nations that have heard thy fame, say in this manner,

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

16 That because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which he had sworn unto them, hath he 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 beseech thee, let the greatness of the power of the Lord be made manifest, as thou hast spoken, saying,

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

18 The Eternal is long-suffering, and abundant in beneficence, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, 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 beseech thee, the iniquity of this people, according to the greatness of thy beneficence, and as thou hast been indulgent to this people, from Egypt even until hitherto.

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 the Lord said, I have pardoned according to thy word.

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

21 But as truly as I live, and as all the earth is filled with the glory of the Lord: —

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

22 That all the men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I have displayed in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted 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 Shall surely not see the land which I have sworn unto their fathers, yea all those that have provoked me shall not 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, as a reward that he had another spirit with him, and followed me fully, —therefore will I bring him into the land whereinto 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 And the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valley: tomorrow turn you, and set forward 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 the Lord spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:

27 How long [shall indulgence be given] to this evil congregation, that murmur against me? the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me, have I heard.

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

28 Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the Lord, 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 In this wilderness shall your carcasses fall, and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward; ye 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 Truly ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I have lifted up my hand to let you dwell therein; save Caleb the son of Yephunneh, 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 of which ye said, They would become a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.

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 carcasses shall fall in this wilderness.

Your carcasses shall lie in the wilderness.

33 And your children shall wander about in the wilderness forty years, and bear your backslidings, until your carcasses be spent 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, forty days, yea, each one day for a year, shall ye bear for your iniquities, forty years; and ye shall experience my withdrawal [of protection].

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 the Lord have spoken it, surely, this will I do unto all this evil congregation that have assembled against me: in this wilderness shall they be spent, and therein shall they 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 had sent to spy out the land, and who returned, and caused 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 these men, that had brought up the evil report of the land, died by the plague before the Lord.

Died and were struck in the sight of the Lord.

38 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Yephunneh, remained alive of those men, who had gone 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 spoke these words unto all the children 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 went up to the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, here we are, and we will go up unto the place of which the Lord hath spoken; 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, Wherefore now do ye transgress the order of the Lord? and it will 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 the Lord is not among you; that ye may not be smitten before your enemies.

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

43 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye will fall by the sword; since, because ye are turned away from the Lord, the Lord also 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 Yet they persisted to go up unto the top of the mountain; but the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and Moses, did not move 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 came down the Amalekites, and the Canaanites that dwelt on that mountain, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Chormah.

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