Numbers 14:6-33

⁶And Joshua son of Nun, and Caleb son of Jephunneh, of those spying the land, have rent their garments,

⁷and they speak unto all the company of the sons of Israel, saying, 'The land into which we have passed over to spy it, is a very very good land;

⁸if Jehovah hath delighted in us, then He hath brought us in unto this land, and hath given it to us, a land which is flowing with milk and honey;

⁹only, against Jehovah rebel not ye: and ye, fear not ye the people of the land, for our bread they are; their defence hath turned aside from off them, and Jehovah is with us; fear them not.'

¹⁰And all the company say to stone them with stones, and the honour of Jehovah hath appeared in the tent of meeting unto all the sons of Israel.

¹¹And Jehovah saith unto Moses, 'Until when doth this people despise Me? and until when do they not believe in Me, for all the signs which I have done in its midst?

¹²I smite it with pestilence, and dispossess it, and make thee become a nation greater and mightier than it.'

¹³And Moses saith unto Jehovah, 'Then have the Egyptians heard! for Thou hast brought up with Thy power this people out of their midst,

¹⁴and they have said it unto the inhabitant of this land, they have heard that Thou, Jehovah, art in the midst of this people, that eye to eye Thou art seen — O Jehovah, and Thy cloud is standing over them, — and in a pillar of cloud Thou art going before them by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.

¹⁵'And Thou hast put to death this people as one man, and the nations who have heard Thy fame have spoken, saying,

¹⁶From Jehovah's want of ability to bring in this people unto the land which He hath sworn to them — He doth slaughter them in the wilderness.

¹⁷'And now, let, I pray Thee, the power of my Lord be great, as Thou hast spoken, saying:

¹⁸Jehovah is slow to anger, and of great kindness; bearing away iniquity and transgression, and not entirely acquitting, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, on a third generation, and on a fourth; —

¹⁹forgive, I pray Thee, the iniquity of this people, according to the greatness of Thy kindness, and as Thou hast borne with this people from Egypt, even until now.'

²⁰And Jehovah saith, 'I have forgiven, according to thy word;

²¹and yet, I live — and it is filled — the whole earth — with the honour of Jehovah;

²²for all the men who are seeing My honour, and My signs, which I have done in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and try Me these ten times, and have not hearkened to My voice —

²³they see not the land which I have sworn to their fathers, yea, none of those despising Me see it;

²⁴and My servant Caleb, because there hath been another spirit with him, and he is fully after Me — I have brought him in unto the land whither he hath entered, and his seed doth possess it.

²⁵'And the Amalekite and the Canaanite are dwelling in the valley; to-morrow turn ye and journey for yourselves into the wilderness — the way of the Red Sea.'

²⁶And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, and unto Aaron, saying,

²⁷'Until when hath this evil company that which they are murmuring against Me? the murmurings of the sons of Israel, which they are murmuring against Me, I have heard;

²⁸say unto them, I live — an affirmation of Jehovah — if, as ye have spoken in Mine ears — so I do not to you;

²⁹in this wilderness do your carcases fall, even all your numbered ones, to all your number, from a son of twenty years and upward, who have murmured against Me;

³⁰ye — ye come not in unto the land which I have lifted up My hand to cause you to tabernacle in it, except Caleb son of Jephunneh, and Joshua son of Nun.

³¹'As to your infants — of whom ye have said, A spoil they are become — I have even brought them in, and they have known the land which ye have kicked against;

³²as to you — your carcases do fall in this wilderness,

³³and your sons are evil in the wilderness forty years, and have borne your whoredoms till your carcases are consumed in the wilderness;