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Numbers 14:15-37

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15Now if you put to death all this people as one man, then the nations who have had word of your glory will say,
16Because 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.
17So now, may my prayer come before you, and let the power of the Lord be great, as you said:
18The 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.
19May 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.
20And the Lord said, I have had mercy, as you say:
21But truly, as I am living, and as all the earth will be full of the glory of the Lord;
22Because 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;
23They 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.
24But 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.
25Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites are in the valley; tomorrow, turning round, go into the waste land by the way to the Red Sea.
26Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
27How 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.
28Say 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:
29Your 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,
30Not 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.
31And 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.
32But as for you, your dead bodies will be stretched in this waste land.
33And 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.
34And 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.
35I 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.
36And 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,
37Those same men who said evil of the land, came to their death by disease before the Lord.

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