Numbers 14:14-33

¹⁴And they will tell unto the inhabitants of this land; for they have heard that Thou, O Lord, dost dwell in Thy Shekinah among this people, whose eyes behold the glorious Shekinah of the Lord, and that Thy Cloud overshadoweth them, and that in the pillar of the Cloud Thou conductest them in the day, and in the pillar of Fire by night.

¹⁵Now if Thou shalt kill this people as one man, the nations who have heard the fame of Thy power will speak, saying:

¹⁶Because there was not strength (enough) before the Lord to bring this people into the land which He covenanted to them, He hath killed them in the desert.

¹⁷And now I beseech, let power be magnified from before the Lord, as Thou hast thus spoken, saying:

¹⁸The Lord is far from anger, and great in performing goodness and truth: forgiving iniquity and rebellion and sins, pardoning them who return unto His law: but acquitting not them who will not, turn, (but) visiting the sins of the fathers upon the rebellious children unto the third and unto the fourth generation.

¹⁹Pardon, I beseech, the sins of this people according to the amplitude of Thy goodness, and as Thou hast forgiven this people from Mizraim until now.

²⁰And the Lord said, I have pardoned according to thy word.

²¹Yet, as I live, with the glory of the Lord shall all the earth be filled.

²²Because all these men who have seen My glory, and the signs I wrought in Mizraim and in the desert, but have tempted before Me these ten times, and have not been obedient to My Word,

²³if they shall see the land which I covenanted to their fathers, nor shall any see it who have provoked before Me.

²⁴But My servant Kaleb, for that there was in him another spirit, and that he hath wholly followed (in) My fear, him will I bring into the land whither he went, and his children shall possess it.

²⁵Now the Amalkaah and the Kenaanaah dwelt in the valley. Tomorrow, turn you and get you to the wilderness by the way of the Sea of Suph.

²⁶And the Lord spake with Mosheh and unto Aharon, saying:

²⁷How long shall this evil congregation be murmuring against Me? The murmuring of the sons of Israel which they murmur against Me is heard before Me.

²⁸Say to them, As I live, saith the Lord, even as ye have spoken before Me, so will I do to you.

²⁹In this wilderness shall your carcases fall, and all who are numbered of you, of all your numbers, from one of twenty years and upward who have murmured against me.

³⁰If you shall come into the land in which I covenanted in My Word to cause you to dwell, except Kaleb bar Jephuneh, and Jehoshua bar Nun.

³¹But your children, of whom you said they were for a prey, will I bring in, and they shall know the land which you have abhorred.

³²But your carcases shall fall in this wilderness;

³³And your children shall go about in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your iniquities until your carcases be laid in the wilderness.