Numbers 14

1 And it lifted up all the congregation and they gave forth voice their and they wept the people in the night that.

Then all the people gave load cries of grief, and all that night they gave themselves up to weeping.

2 And they grumbled on Moses and on Aaron all [the] people of Israel and they said to them all the congregation if we had died in [the] land of Egypt or in the wilderness this if we had died.

And all the children of Israel, crying out against Moses and Aaron, said, If only we had come to our death in the land of Egypt, or even in this waste land!

3 And why? [is] Yahweh bringing us into the land this to fall by the sword wives our and little one[s] our they will become plunder ¿ not good for us [is] to return Egypt towards.

Why is the Lord taking us into this land to come to our death by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will get into strange hands: would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?

4 And they said each to brother his let us appoint a leader and let us return Egypt towards.

And they said to one another, Let us make a captain over us, and go back to Egypt.

5 And he fell Moses and Aaron on faces their before all [the] assembly of [the] congregation of [the] people of Israel.

Then Moses and Aaron went down on their faces before the meeting of the people.

6 And Joshua [the] son of Nun and Caleb [the] son of Jephunneh one of those [who] spied out the land they tore clothes their.

And Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, two of those who had been to see the land, giving signs of grief,

7 And they said to all [the] congregation of [the] people of Israel saying the land which we passed in it to spy out it [is] good the land very very.

Said to all the children of Israel, This land which we went through to see is a very good land.

8 If he delights in us Yahweh and he will bring us into the land this and he will give it to us a land which it [is] flowing of milk and honey.

And if the Lord has delight in us, he will take us into this land and give it to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

9 Only against Yahweh may not you rebel and you may not you fear [the] people of the land for [will be] bread our they it has departed shade their from over them and Yahweh [is] with us may not you fear them.

Only, do not go against the Lord or go in fear of the people of the land, for they will be our food; their strength has been taken from them and the Lord is with us: have no fear of them.

10 And they said all the congregation to stone them with stones and [the] glory of Yahweh it appeared at [the] tent of meeting to all [the] people of Israel.

But all the people said they were to be stoned. Then the glory of the Lord was seen in the Tent of meeting, before the eyes of all the children of Israel.

11 And he said Yahweh to Moses until when? will they spurn me the people this and until when? not will they believe in me with all the signs which I did in midst its.

And the Lord said to Moses, How long will this people have no respect for me? how long will they be without faith, in the face of all the signs I have done among them?

12 I will strike it with pestilence and I will dispossess it and I may make you a nation great and mighty more than it.

I will send disease on them for their destruction, and take away their heritage, and I will make of you a nation greater and stronger than they.

13 And he said Moses to Yahweh and they will hear Egypt that you brought up by strength your the people this from midst its.

And Moses said to the Lord, Then it will come to the ears of the Egyptians; for by your power you took this people out from among them;

14 And they will say to [the] inhabitant[s] of the land this they have heard that you O Yahweh [are] in [the] midst of the people this who eye in eye he was seen - you O Yahweh and cloud your [is] standing over them and in a pillar of cloud you [are] going before them by day and in a pillar of fire night.

And they will give the news to the people of this land: they have had word that you, Lord, are present with this people, letting yourself be seen face to face, and that your cloud is resting over them, and that you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.

15 And you will put to death the people this like a person one and they will say the nations which they have heard report your saying.

Now if you put to death all this people as one man, then the nations who have had word of your glory will say,

16 Because not was able Yahweh to bring the people this into the land which he swore to them and he has slaughtered them in the wilderness.

Because the Lord was not able to take this people into the land which he made an oath to give them, he sent destruction on them in the waste land.

17 And therefore may it be great please [the] power of [the] Lord just as you have spoken saying.

So now, may my prayer come before you, and let the power of the Lord be great, as you said:

18 Yahweh [is] long of anger and great of covenant loyalty forgiving iniquity and transgression and certainly not he will leave unpunished visiting [the] iniquity of parents on [the] children on a third generation and on a fourth generation.

The Lord is slow to wrath and great in mercy, overlooking wrongdoing and evil, and will not let wrongdoers go free; sending punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation.

19 Forgive please [the] iniquity of the people this according to [the] greatness of covenant loyalty your and just as you have forgiven the people this from Egypt and until now.

May the sin of this people have forgiveness, in the measure of your great mercy, as you have had mercy on them from Egypt up till now.

20 And he said Yahweh I have forgiven [them] according to word your.

And the Lord said, I have had mercy, as you say:

21 And but [by] [the] life of me so may be filled [with the] glory of Yahweh all the earth.

But truly, as I am living, and as all the earth will be full of the glory of the Lord;

22 For all the men who saw glory my and signs my which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness and they have put to [the] test me this ten times and not they have listened to voice my.

Because all these men, having seen my glory and the signs which I have done in Egypt and in the waste land, still have put me to the test ten times, and have not given ear to my voice;

23 If they will see the land which I swore to ancestors their and all [those who] have spurned me not they will see it.

They will not see the land about which I made an oath to their fathers; not one of these by whom I have not been honoured will see it.

24 And servant my Caleb consequence it has been a spirit another with him and he has filled after me and I will bring him into the land where he went there and offspring his it will take possession of it.

But my servant Caleb, because he had a different spirit in him, and has been true to me with all his heart, him I will take into that land into which he went, and his seed will have it for their heritage.

25 And the Amalekite[s] and the Canaanite[s] [was] dwelling in the valley[s] tomorrow turn and set out for yourselves the wilderness [the] way of [the] sea of reed[s].

Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites are in the valley; tomorrow, turning round, go into the waste land by the way to the Red Sea.

26 And he spoke Yahweh to Moses and to Aaron saying.

Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

27 Until when? to the congregation evil this which they [are] grumbling on me [the] grumblings of [the] people of Israel which they [are] grumbling on me I have heard.

How long am I to put up with this evil people and their outcries against me? The words which they say against me have come to my ears.

28 Say to them [by] [the] life of me [the] utterance of Yahweh if not just as you have spoken in ears my so I will do to you.

Say to them, By my life, says the Lord, as certainly as your words have come to my ears, so certainly will I do this to you:

29 In the wilderness this they will fall corpses your and all enrolled [men] your of all number your from a son of twenty year[s] and up-wards who you have grumbled on me.

Your dead bodies will be stretched out in this waste land; and of all your number, all those of twenty years old and over who have been crying out against me,

30 If you you will go into the land which I lifted up hand my to cause to dwell you in it that except Caleb [the] son of Jephunneh and Joshua [the] son of Nun.

Not one will come into the land which I gave my word you would have for your resting-place, but only Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, the son of Nun.

31 And little one[s] your who you said plunder he will become and I will bring them and they will know the land which you have rejected it.

And your little ones, whom you said would come into strange hands, I will take in, and they will see the land which you would not have.

32 And corpses your you they will fall in the wilderness this.

But as for you, your dead bodies will be stretched in this waste land.

33 And children your they will be shepherds in the wilderness forty year[s] and they will bear prostitution your until are finished corpses your in the wilderness.

And your children will be wanderers in the waste land for forty years, undergoing punishment for your false ways, till your bodies become dust in the waste land.

34 By [the] number of the days which you spied out the land forty day[s] a day for the year a day for the year you will bear iniquities your forty year[s] and you will know opposition my.

And as you went through the land viewing it for forty days, so for forty years, a year for every day, you will undergo punishment for your wrongdoing, and you will see that I am against you.

35 I Yahweh I have spoken if not - this I will do to all the congregation evil this which has gathered on me in the wilderness this they will meet their end and there they will die.

I the Lord have said it, and this I will certainly do to all this evil people who have come together against me: in this waste land destruction will come on them, and death will be their fate.

36 And the men whom he sent Moses to spy out the land and they returned (and they caused to grumble *Q(K)*) on him all the congregation by bringing out a bad report on the land.

And the men whom Moses sent to see the land, and who, by the bad account they gave of the land, were the cause of the outcry the people made against Moses,

37 And they died the men [who] brought out [the] unfavorable report of the land evil by plague before Yahweh.

Those same men who said evil of the land, came to their death by disease before the Lord.

38 And Joshua [the] son of Nun and Caleb [the] son of Jephunneh they lived of the men those who went to spy out the land.

But Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, of those who went to see the land, were not touched by disease.

39 And he spoke Moses the words these to all [the] people of Israel and they mourned the people exceedingly.

And when Moses put these words before the children of Israel, the people were full of grief.

40 And they rose early in the morning and they went up to [the] top of the hill country saying here [are] we and we will go up to the place which he said Yahweh that we have sinned.

And early in the morning they got up and went to the top of the mountain, saying, We are here and we will go up to the place which the Lord said he would give us: for we have done wrong.

41 And he said Moses why? this [are] you transgressing [the] mouth of Yahweh and it not it will succeed.

And Moses said, Why are you now acting against the Lord's order, seeing that no good will come of it?

42 May not you go up for not Yahweh [will be] in midst your and not you will be defeated before enemies your.

Go not up, for the Lord is not with you, and you will be overcome by those who are fighting against you.

43 For the Amalekite[s] and the Canaanite[s] [are] there before you and you will fall by the sword for since you have turned back from after Yahweh and not he will be Yahweh with you.

For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you will be put to death by their swords: because you have gone back from the way of the Lord, the Lord will not be with you.

44 And they presumed to go up to [the] top of the hill country and [the] ark of [the] covenant of Yahweh and Moses not they departed from [the] midst of the camp.

But they gave no attention to his words and went to the top of the mountain, though Moses and the ark of the Lord's agreement did not go out of the tent-circle.

45 And he came down the Amalekite[s] and the Canaanite[s] who dwelt in the hill country that and they struck them and they scattered them to Hormah.

Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites who were living in the hill-country, and overcame them completely, driving them back as far as Hormah.