Numbers 14
1 That night all the community wept loudly.
igitur vociferans omnis turba flevit nocte illa
2 All the people of Israel criticized Moses and Aaron. The whole community said to them, “We wish we had died in the land of Egypt, or here in this wilderness!
et murmurati sunt contra Mosen et Aaron cuncti filii Israhel dicentes
3 Why did Yahweh bring us to this land to die by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become victims. Is it not better for us to return to Egypt?”
utinam mortui essemus in Aegypto et non in hac vasta solitudine utinam pereamus et non inducat nos Dominus in terram istam ne cadamus gladio et uxores ac liberi nostri ducantur captivi nonne melius est reverti in Aegyptum
4 They said to each another, “Let us choose another leader, and let us return to Egypt.”
dixeruntque alter ad alterum constituamus nobis ducem et revertamur in Aegyptum
5 Then Moses and Aaron lay facedown before all the assembly of the community of the people of Israel.
quo audito Moses et Aaron ceciderunt proni in terram coram omni multitudine filiorum Israhel
6 Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were some of those sent to examine the land, tore their clothes.
at vero Iosue filius Nun et Chaleb filius Iepphonne qui et ipsi lustraverant terram sciderunt vestimenta sua
7 They spoke to all the community of the people of Israel. They said, “The land that we passed through and examined is a very good land.
et ad omnem multitudinem filiorum Israhel locuti sunt terram quam circuivimus valde bona est
8 If Yahweh is pleased with us, then he will take us into this land and give it to us. The land flows with milk and honey.
si propitius fuerit Dominus inducet nos in eam et tradet humum lacte et melle manantem
9 But do not rebel against Yahweh, and do not fear the people in the land, for they are bread to us. Their protection will be removed from them, because Yahweh is with us. Do not fear them.”
nolite rebelles esse contra Dominum neque timeatis populum terrae huius quia sicut panem ita eos possumus devorare recessit ab illis omne praesidium Dominus nobiscum est nolite metuere
10 Then all the congregation said to stone them with stones. But the glory of Yahweh appeared at the tent of meeting to all the people of Israel.
cumque clamaret omnis multitudo et lapidibus eos vellet opprimere apparuit gloria Domini super tectum foederis cunctis filiis Israhel
11 Yahweh said to Moses, “How long must this people despise me? How long must they fail to trust me, despite all the signs of my power that I have done among them?
et dixit Dominus ad Mosen usquequo detrahet mihi populus iste quousque non credent mihi in omnibus signis quae feci coram eis
12 I will attack them with plague, disinherit them, and make from your own clan a nation that will be greater and mightier than they are.”
feriam igitur eos pestilentia atque consumam te autem faciam principem super gentem magnam et fortiorem quam haec est
13 Moses said to Yahweh, “If you do this, then the Egyptians will hear about it, because you rescued this people from them by your power.
et ait Moses ad Dominum ut audiant Aegyptii de quorum medio eduxisti populum istum
14 They will tell it to this land's inhabitants. They have heard that you, Yahweh, are present with this people, because you are seen face to face. Your cloud stands over our people. You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.
et habitatores terrae huius qui audierunt quod tu Domine in populo isto sis et facie videaris ad faciem et nubes tua protegat illos et in columna nubis praecedas eos per diem et in columna ignis per noctem
15 Now if you kill this people as one man, then the nations that have heard of your fame will speak and say,
quod occideris tantam multitudinem quasi unum hominem et dicant
16 'Because Yahweh could not take this people into the land that he swore to give them, he has killed them in the wilderness.'
non poterat introducere populum in terram pro qua iuraverat idcirco occidit eos in solitudine
17 Now, I beg you, use your great power. For you have said,
magnificetur ergo fortitudo Domini sicut iurasti dicens
18 'Yahweh is slow to anger and abundant in covenant faithfulness. He forgives iniquity and transgression. He will by no means clear the guilty when he brings the punishment of the ancestors' sin on their descendants, to the third and fourth generation.'
Dominus patiens et multae misericordiae auferens iniquitatem et scelera nullumque innoxium derelinquens qui visitas peccata patrum in filios in tertiam et quartam generationem
19 Pardon, I plead with you, this people's sin because of the greatness of your covenant faithfulness, just as you have always forgiven this people from the time they were in Egypt until now.”
dimitte obsecro peccatum populi tui huius secundum magnitudinem misericordiae tuae sicut propitius fuisti egredientibus de Aegypto usque ad locum istum
20 Yahweh said, “I have pardoned them in keeping with your request,
dixitque Dominus dimisi iuxta verbum tuum
21 but truly, as I live, and as all the earth will be filled with my glory,
vivo ego et implebitur gloria Domini universa terra
22 all those people who saw my glory and the signs of power that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness—they have still tempted me these ten times and have not listened to my voice.
attamen omnes homines qui viderunt maiestatem meam et signa quae feci in Aegypto et in solitudine et temptaverunt me iam per decem vices nec oboedierunt voci meae
23 So I say that they will certainly not see the land about which I made an oath to their ancestors. Not one of them who despised me will see it,
non videbunt terram pro qua iuravi patribus eorum nec quisquam ex illis qui detraxit mihi intuebitur eam
24 except for my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit. He has followed me fully; I will bring him into the land which he went to examine. His descendants will possess it.
servum meum Chaleb qui plenus alio spiritu secutus est me inducam in terram hanc quam circuivit et semen eius possidebit eam
25 (Now the Amalekites and Canaanites lived in the valley.) Tomorrow turn and go to the wilderness by the way of the Sea of Reeds.”
quoniam Amalechites et Chananeus habitant in vallibus cras movete castra et revertimini in solitudinem per viam maris Rubri
26 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron. He said,
locutusque est Dominus ad Mosen et Aaron dicens
27 “How long must I tolerate this evil community that criticizes me? I have heard the complaining of the people of Israel against me.
usquequo multitudo haec pessima murmurat contra me querellas filiorum Israhel audivi
28 Say to them, 'As I live,' says Yahweh, 'as you have spoken in my hearing, I will do this to you:
dic ergo eis vivo ego ait Dominus sicut locuti estis audiente me sic faciam vobis
29 Your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness, all you who complained against me, you who were counted in the census, the whole number of the people from twenty years old and upward.
in solitudine hac iacebunt cadavera vestra omnes qui numerati estis a viginti annis et supra et murmurastis contra me
30 You will certainly not go into the land that I promised to make your home, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
non intrabitis terram super quam levavi manum meam ut habitare vos facerem praeter Chaleb filium Iepphonne et Iosue filium Nun
31 But your little ones who you said would be victims, I will take them into the land. They will experience the land that you have rejected!
parvulos autem vestros de quibus dixistis quod praedae hostibus forent introducam ut videant terram quae vobis displicuit
32 As for you, your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness.
vestra cadavera iacebunt in solitudine
33 Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years. They must bear the consequences of your acts of rebellion until the end of your corpses in the wilderness.
filii vestri erunt vagi in deserto annis quadraginta et portabunt fornicationem vestram donec consumantur cadavera patrum in deserto
34 Just as the number of the days during which you examined the land—forty days, you must likewise bear the consequences of your sins for forty years—one year for every day, and you must know what it is like for me to oppose you.
iuxta numerum quadraginta dierum quibus considerastis terram annus pro die inputabitur et quadraginta annis recipietis iniquitates vestras et scietis ultionem meam
35 I, Yahweh, have spoken. I will certainly do this to all this evil community that is gathered together against me. They will be completely cut off, and here they will die.'”
quoniam sicut locutus sum ita faciam omni multitudini huic pessimae quae consurrexit adversum me in solitudine hac deficiet et morietur
36 So the men Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made the entire community grumble against Moses by spreading a bad report about the land—
igitur omnes viri quos miserat Moses ad contemplandam terram et qui reversi murmurare fecerant contra eum omnem multitudinem detrahentes terrae quod esset mala
37 these men who had brought out a bad report about the land were struck down, and they died of a plague before Yahweh.
mortui sunt atque percussi in conspectu Domini
38 Of those men who had gone to spy out the land, only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh remained alive.
Iosue autem filius Nun et Chaleb filius Iepphonne vixerunt ex omnibus qui perrexerant ad considerandam terram
39 When Moses reported these words to all the people of Israel, they mourned very deeply.
locutusque est Moses universa verba haec ad omnes filios Israhel et luxit populus nimis
40 They rose up early in the morning and went to the top of the mountain and said, “Look, we are here, and we will go to the place that Yahweh has promised, for we have sinned.”
et ecce mane primo surgentes ascenderunt verticem montis atque dixerunt parati sumus ascendere ad locum de quo Dominus locutus est quia peccavimus
41 But Moses said, “Why are you now violating Yahweh's command? You will not succeed.
quibus Moses cur inquit transgredimini verbum Domini quod vobis non cedet in prosperum
42 Do not go, because Yahweh is not with you to prevent you from being defeated by your enemies.
nolite ascendere non enim est Dominus vobiscum ne corruatis coram inimicis vestris
43 The Amalekites and Canaanites are there, and you will die by the sword because you turned back from following Yahweh. So he will not be with you.”
Amalechites et Chananeus ante vos sunt quorum gladio corruetis eo quod nolueritis adquiescere Domino nec erit Dominus vobiscum
44 But they presumed to go up into the hill country; however, neither Moses nor the ark of the covenant of Yahweh left the camp.
at illi contenebrati ascenderunt in verticem montis arca autem testamenti Domini et Moses non recesserunt de castris
45 Then the Amalekites came down, and also the Canaanites who lived on those hills. They attacked the Israelites and defeated them all the way to Hormah.
descenditque Amalechites et Chananeus qui habitabant in monte et percutiens eos atque concidens persecutus est usque Horma
