2And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron: and the whole assemblie said vnto them, Would God we had died in the land of Egypt, or in this wildernesse: would God we were dead.
3Wherefore nowe hath the Lord brought vs into this lande to fall vpon the sworde? our wiues, and our children shall be a pray: were it not better for vs to returne into Egypt?
4And they said one to another, Let vs make a Captaine and returne into Egypt.
5Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assemblie of the Congregation of the children of Israel.
6And Ioshua the sonne of Nun, and Caleb the sonne of Iephunneh two of them that searched the lande, rent their clothes,
7And spake vnto all the assemblie of the childre of Israel, saying, The land which we walked through to search it, is a very good lande.
8If the Lord loue vs, he will bring vs into this land, and giue it vs, which is a land that floweth with milke and honie.
9But rebell not ye against the Lord, neither feare ye the people of the land: for they are but bread for vs: their shielde is departed from the, and the Lord is with vs, feare them not.
10And all the multitude saide, Stone them with stones: but the glory of the Lord appeared in the Tabernacle of the Congregation, before all the children of Israel.
11And the Lord said vnto Moses, How long will this people prouoke me, and howe long will it be, yer they beleeue me, for al the signes which I haue shewed among them?
12I will smite them with the pestilence and destroy them, and will make thee a greater nation and mightier then they.
13But Moses saide vnto the Lord, When the Egyptians shall heare it, (for thou broughtest this people by thy power from among them)
14Then they shall say to the inhabitants of this land, (for they haue heard that thou, Lord, art among this people, and that thou, Lord, art seene face to face, and that thy cloude standeth ouer them, and that thou goest before them by day time in a pillar of a cloude, and in a pillar of fire by night)
15That thou wilt kill this people as one man: so the heathen which haue heard the fame of thee, shall thus say,
16Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the lande, which he sware vnto them, therefore hath he slaine them in the wildernesse.
17And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,
18The Lord is slowe to anger, and of great mercie, and forgiuing iniquitie, and sinne, but not making the wicked innocent, and visiting the wickednes of the fathers vpon the children, in the thirde and fourth generation:
19Be mercifull, I beseech thee, vnto the iniquitie of this people, according to thy great mercie, and as thou hast forgiuen this people from Egypt, euen vntill nowe.
20And the Lord said, I haue forgiuen it, according to thy request.
21Notwithstanding, as I liue, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord.
22For all those men which haue seene my glory, and my miracles which I did in Egypt, and in the wildernes, and haue tempted me this ten times, and haue not obeyed my voyce,
23Certainely they shall not see the lande, whereof I sware vnto their fathers: neither shall any that prouoke me, see it.
24But my seruant Caleb, because he had another spirite, and hath followed me stil, euen him will I bring into the lande, whither he went, and his seede shall inherite it.
25Nowe the Amalekites and the Canaanites remaine in the valley: wherefore turne backe to morowe, and get you into the wildernesse, by the way of the red Sea.
Numbers 14
Numbers 14:2-25