Numbers 14:14-33

¹⁴Moreover all the dwellers upon this land have heard that thou art Lord in the midst of this people, who, O Lord, art seen by them face to face, and thy cloud rests upon them, and thou goest before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, and by night in a pillar of fire.

¹⁵And if thou shalt destroy this nation as one man; then all the nations that have heard thy name shall speak, saying,

¹⁶Because the Lord could not bring this people into the land which he sware to them, he has overthrown them in the wilderness.

¹⁷And now, O Lord, let thy strength be exalted, as thou spakest, saying,

¹⁸The Lord is long-suffering and merciful, and true, removing transgressions and iniquities and sins, and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation.

¹⁹Forgive this people their sin according to thy great mercy, as thou wast favourable to them from Egypt until now.

²⁰And the Lord said to Moses, I am gracious to them according to thy word.

²¹But as I live and my name is living, so the glory of the Lord shall fill all the earth.

²²For all the men who see my glory, and the signs which I wrought in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and have tempted me this tenth time, and have not hearkened to my voice,

²³surely they shall not see the land, which I sware to their fathers; but their children which are with me here, as many as know not good or evil, every inexperienced youth, to them will I give the land; but none who have provoked me shall see it.

²⁴But my servant Chaleb, because there was another spirit in him, and he followed me, I will bring him into the land into which he entered, and his seed shall inherit it.

²⁵But Amalec and the Chananite dwell in the valley: to-morrow turn and depart for the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.

²⁶And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

²⁷How long shall I endure this wicked congregation? I have heard their murmurings against me, even the murmuring of the children of Israel, which they have murmured concerning you.

²⁸Say to them, As I live, saith the Lord: surely as ye spoke into my ears, so will I do to you.

²⁹Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all those of you that were reviewed, and those of you that were numbered from twenty years old and upward, all that murmured against me,

³⁰ye shall not enter into the land for which I stretched out my hand to establish you upon it; except only Chaleb the son of Jephonne, and Joshua the son of Naue.

³¹And your little ones, who ye said should be a prey, them will I bring into the land; and they shall inherit the land, which ye rejected.

³²And your carcases shall fall in this wilderness.

³³And your sons shall be fed in the wilderness forty years, and they shall bear your fornication, until your carcases be consumed in the wilderness.