Liber Numeri 14

1 Igitur vociferans omnis turba flevit nocte illa,

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

2 et murmurati sunt contra Moysen et Aaron cuncti filii Israel, dicentes:

And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!

3 Utinam mortui essemus in Aegypto: et 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?

And wherefore doth the LORD bring us unto this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones shall be a prey: were it not better for us to return into Egypt?

4 Dixeruntque alter ad alterum: Constituamus nobis ducem, et revertamur in Aegyptum.

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

5 Quo audito Moyses et Aaron ceciderunt proni in terram coram omni multitudine filiorum Israel.

Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.

6 At vero Iosue filius Nun, et Caleb filius Iephone, qui et ipsi lustraverant terram, sciderunt vestimenta sua,

And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that spied out the land, rent their clothes:

7 et ad omnem multitudinem filiorum Israel locuti sunt: Terra, quam circuivimus, valde bona est.

and they spake unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceeding good land.

8 si propitius fuerit Dominus, inducet nos in eam, et tradet humum lacte et melle manantem.

If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it unto us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.

9 Nolite rebelles esse contra Dominum: neque timeatis populum terrae huius, quia sicut panem ita eos possumus devorare. recessit ab eis omne praesidium: Dominus nobiscum est, nolite metuere.

Only rebel not against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is removed from over them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.

10 Cumque clamaret omnis multitudo, et lapidibus eos vellet opprimere, apparuit gloria Domini super tectum foederis cunctis videntibus filiis Israel.

But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tent of meeting unto all the children of Israel.

11 Et dixit Dominus ad Moysen: Usquequo detrahet mihi populus iste? Quousque non credent mihi in omnibus signis, quae feci coram eis?

And the LORD said unto 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?

12 Feriam igitur eos pestilentia, atque consumam: te autem faciam principem super gentem magnam, et fortiorem quam haec est.

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

13 Et ait Moyses ad Dominum: Ut audiant Aegyptii, de quorum medio eduxisti populum istum,

And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear it; for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;

14 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:

and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: they have heard that thou LORD art in the midst of this people; for thou LORD art seen face to face, and thy cloud standeth over them, and thou goest before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.

15 quod occideris tantam multitudinem quasi unum hominem, et dicant:

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

16 Non poterat introducere populum in Terram, pro qua iuraverat: idcirco occidit eos in solitudine.

Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.

17 Magnificetur ergo fortitudo Domini sicut iurasti, dicens:

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

18 Dominus patiens et multae misericordiae, auferens iniquitatem et scelera, nullumque innoxium derelinquens, qui visitas peccata patrum in filios in tertiam et quartam generationem.

The LORD is slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and that will by no means clear [the guilty]; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.

19 Dimitte, obsecro, peccatum populi tui huius secundum magnitudinem misericordiae tuae, sicut propitius fuisti egredientibus de Aegypto usque ad locum istum.

Pardon, I pray thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and according as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.

20 Dixitque Dominus: Dimisi iuxta verbum tuum.

And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word:

21 Vivo ego: et implebitur gloria Domini universa terra.

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

22 Attamen omnes homines qui viderunt maiestatem meam, et signa quae feci in Aegypto et in solitudine, et tentaverunt me iam per decem vices, nec obedierunt voci meae,

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

23 non videbunt Terram pro qua iuravi patribus eorum, nec quisquam ex illis qui detraxit mihi, intuebitur eam.

surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that despised me see it:

24 Servum meum Caleb, qui plenus alio spiritu secutus est me, inducam in Terram hanc, quam circuivit: et semen eius possidebit eam.

but my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.

25 Quoniam Amalecites et Chananaeus habitant in vallibus. Cras movete castra, et revertimini in solitudinem per viam Maris rubri.

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.

26 Locutusque est Dominus ad Moysen et Aaron, dicens:

And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

27 Usquequo multitudo haec pessima murmurat contra me? querelas filiorum Israel audivi.

How long [shall I bear] with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.

28 Dic ergo eis: Vivo ego, ait Dominus: sicut locuti estis audiente me, sic faciam vobis.

Say unto them, As I live, saith the LORD, surely as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:

29 In solitudine hac iacebunt cadavera vestra. Omnes qui numerati estis a viginti annis et supra, et murmurastis contra me,

your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,

30 non intrabitis Terram, super quam levavi manum meam ut habitare vos facerem, praeter Caleb filium Iephone, et Iosue filium Nun.

surely ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I lifted up my hand that I would make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

31 Parvulos autem vestros, de quibus dixistis quod praedae hostibus forent, introducam: ut videant Terram, quae vobis displicuit.

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

32 Vestra cadavera iacebunt in solitudine.

But as for you, your carcases shall fall in this wilderness.

33 Filii vestri erunt vagi in deserto annis quadraginta, et portabunt fornicationem vestram, donec consumantur cadavera patrum in deserto,

And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be consumed in the wilderness.

34 iuxta numerum quadraginta dierum, quibus considerastis Terram: annus pro die imputabitur. Et quadraginta annis recipietis iniquitates vestras, et scietis ultionem meam:

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

35 quoniam sicut locutus sum, ita faciam omni multitudini huic pessimae, quae consurrexit adversum me: in solitudine hac deficiet, et morietur.

I the LORD have spoken, surely this will I do unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.

36 Igitur omnes viri, quos miserat Moyses ad contemplandam Terram, et qui reversi murmurare fecerant contra eum omnem multitudinem, detrahentes Terrae quod esset mala,

And the men, which 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,

37 mortui sunt atque percussi in conspectu Domini.

even those men that did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before the LORD.

38 Iosue autem filius Nun, et Caleb filius Iephone vixerunt ex omnibus, qui perrexerant ad considerandam Terram.

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

39 Locutusque est Moyses universa verba haec ad omnes filios Israel, et luxit populus nimis.

And Moses told these words unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.

40 Et ecce mane primo surgentes ascenderunt verticem montis, atque dixerunt: Parati sumus ascendere ad locum, de quo Dominus locutus est: quia peccavimus.

And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up to the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned.

41 Quibus Moyses: Cur, inquit, transgredimini verbum Domini, quod vobis non cedet in prosperum?

And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD, seeing it shall not prosper?

42 Nolite ascendere: non enim est Dominus vobiscum: ne corruatis coram inimicis vestris.

Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smitten down before your enemies.

43 Amalecites et Chananaeus ante vos sunt, quorum gladio corruetis, eo quod nolueritis acquiescere Domino, nec erit Dominus vobiscum.

For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned back from following the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.

44 At illi contenebrati ascenderunt in verticem montis. Arca autem testamenti Domini et Moyses non recesserunt de castris.

But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.

45 Descenditque Amalecites et Chananaeus, qui habitabat in monte: et percutiens eos atque concidens, persecutus est eos usque Horma.

Then the Amalekite came down, and the Canaanite which dwelt in that mountain, and smote them and beat them down, even unto Hormah.