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Números 14

1 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and theThose who were afraid at the report of the ten spies.people wept that night.

2 And 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.

3 And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should beTo our enemies the Canaanites.a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?

4 And they said one to another, Let vs make a Captaine and returne into Egypt.

5 Then Moses and AaronLamenting the people, and praying for them.fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.

6 And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, [which were] of them that searched the land,For sorrow, hearing their blasphemy.rent their clothes:

7 And 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.

8 If the Lorde loue vs, he will bring vs into this land, and giue it vs, which is a land that floweth with milke and honie.

9 Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they [are]We shall easily overcome them.bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD [is] with us: fear them not.

10 But all the congregation badeThis is the condition of those who would persuade in God's cause, to be persecuted by the multitude.stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.

11 And 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?

12 I will smite them with the pestilence and destroy them, and will make thee a greater nation and mightier then they.

13 But Moses saide vnto the Lorde, When the Egyptians shall heare it, (for thou broughtest this people by thy power from among them)

14 Then they shall say to the inhabitants of this land, (for they haue heard that thou, Lorde, art among this people, and that thou, Lorde, 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)

15 Now [if] thou shalt kill [all] this people asSo that none shall escape.one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,

16 Because 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.

17 And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lorde be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,

18 The 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:

19 Be 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.

20 And the LORD said, I have pardonedIn that he did not utterly destroy them, but allowed their children and certain others to enter.according to thy word:

21 Notwithstanding, as I liue, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord.

22 Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now theseThat is, various times and often.ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;

23 Certainely they shall not see the lande, whereof I sware vnto their fathers: neither shall any that prouoke me, see it.

24 But my servant Caleb, because he had anotherA meek and obedient spirit, and not rebellious.spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.

25 (Now the Amalekites and the CanaanitesAnd lie in wait for you.dwelt in the valley.) To morrow turn you, and get you into theFor I will not defend you.wilderness by the way of the Red sea.

26 After, the Lorde spake vnto Moses and to Aaron, saying,

27 How long shall I suffer this wicked multitude to murmure against me? I haue heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmure against me.

28 Tell them, As I liue (saith the Lorde) I wil surely do vnto you, euen as ye haue spoken in mine eares.

29 Your carkeises shall fall in this wildernes, and all you that were counted through all your nombers, from twentie yeere olde and aboue, which haue murmured against me,

30 Ye shall not doubtles come into the land, for the which I lifted vp mine hande, to make you dwell therein, saue Caleb the sonne of Iephunneh, and Ioshua the sonne of Nun.

31 But your children, (which ye said shoulde be a pray) them will I bring in, and they shall knowe the lande which ye haue refused:

32 But euen your carkeises shall fall in this wildernes,

33 And your children shallThe word signifies to be shepherds, or to wander like shepherds to and fro.wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear yourYour infidelity and disobedience against God.whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.

34 After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, [even] forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, [even] forty years, and yeWhether my promise is true or not.shall know my breach of promise.

35 I the Lord haue said, Certainely I will doe so to all this wicked company, that are gathered together against me: for in this wildernesse they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.

36 And the men which Moses had sent to search the land (which, when they came againe, made all the people to murmure against him, and brought vp a slander vpon the lande)

37 Euen those men that did bring vp that vile slander vpon the land, shall die by a plague before the Lorde.

38 But Ioshua the sonne of Nun, and Caleb the sonne of Iephunneh, of those men that went to search the land, shall liue.

39 Then Moses tolde these sayings vnto all the children of Israel, and the people sorowed greatly.

40 And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we [be here], and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we haveThey confessed their sin in rebelling against God, but did not consider their offence in going up without God's commandment.sinned.

41 But Moses said, Wherefore transgresse yee thus the commandement of the Lorde? it will not so come well to passe.

42 Goe not vp (for the Lorde is not among you) lest ye be ouerthrowe before your enemies.

43 For the Amalekites & the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sworde: for in as much as ye are turned away from the Lord, the Lord also will not be with you.

44 But theyThey could not be stayed by any means.presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.

45 Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites, which dwelt in that mountaine, came downe & smote them, & consumed them vnto Hormah.

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