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1 And all the con­gre­ga­tion lift­ed up their voice, and cried; and the peo­ple wept that night. 2 And all the chil­dren of Is­rael mur­mured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole con­gre­ga­tion said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilder­ness! 3 And where­fore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our chil­dren should be a prey? were it not bet­ter for us to re­turn into Egypt? 4 And they said one to an­oth­er, Let us make a cap­tain, and let us re­turn into Egypt. 5 Then Moses and Aaron 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, rent their clothes: 7 And they spake unto all the com­pa­ny of the chil­dren of Is­rael, say­ing, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an ex­ceed­ing good land. 8 If the LORD de­light in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and hon­ey. 9 Only rebel not ye against the LORD, nei­ther fear ye the peo­ple of the land; for they are bread for us: their de­fence is de­part­ed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not. 10 But all the con­gre­ga­tion bade 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 unto Moses, How long will this peo­ple pro­voke me? and how long will it be ere they be­lieve me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them? 12 I will smite them with the pesti­lence, and dis­in­her­it them, and will make of thee a greater na­tion and might­i­er than they. 13 And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyp­tians shall hear it, (for thou brought­est up this peo­ple in thy might from among them;) 14 And they will tell it to the in­hab­i­tants of this land: for they have heard that thou LORD art among this peo­ple, that thou LORD art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest be­fore them, by day time in a pil­lar of a cloud, and in a pil­lar of fire by night. 15 Now if thou shalt kill all this peo­ple as 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 land which he sware unto them, there­fore he hath slain them in the wilder­ness. 17 And now, I be­seech thee, let the pow­er of my Lord be great, ac­cord­ing as thou hast spo­ken, say­ing, 18 The LORD is long­suf­fer­ing, and of great mer­cy, for­giv­ing in­iq­ui­ty and trans­gres­sion, and by no means clear­ing the guilty, vis­it­ing the in­iq­ui­ty of the fa­thers upon the chil­dren unto the third and fourth generation. 19 Par­don, I be­seech thee, the in­iq­ui­ty of this peo­ple ac­cord­ing unto the great­ness of thy mer­cy, and as thou hast for­giv­en this peo­ple, from Egypt even un­til now. 20 And the LORD said, I have par­doned ac­cord­ing to thy word: 21 But as tru­ly as I live, 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 these ten times, and have not hear­kened to my voice; 23 Sure­ly they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fa­thers, nei­ther shall any of them that pro­voked me see it: 24 But my ser­vant Caleb, be­cause he had an­oth­er 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 Canaan­ites dwelt in the val­ley. ) To mor­row turn you, and get you into the wilder­ness by the way of the Red sea. 26 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, say­ing, 27 How long shall I bear with this evil con­gre­ga­tion, which mur­mur against me? I have heard the mur­mur­ings of the chil­dren of Is­rael, which they mur­mur against me. 28 Say unto them, As tru­ly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spo­ken in mine ears, so will I do to you: 29 Your car­cas­es shall fall in this wilder­ness; and all that were num­bered of you, ac­cord­ing to your whole num­ber, from twen­ty years old and up­ward, which have mur­mured against me, 30 Doubt­less ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell there­in, save Caleb the son of Je­phun­neh, and Joshua the son of Nun. 31 But your lit­tle ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have de­spised. 32 But as for you, your car­cas­es, they shall fall in this wilder­ness. 33 And your chil­dren shall wan­der in the wilder­ness forty years, and bear your 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 ye shall know my breach of promise. 35 I the LORD have said, I will sure­ly do it unto all this evil con­gre­ga­tion, that are gath­ered to­geth­er against me: in this wilder­ness they shall be con­sumed, and there they shall die. 36 And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who re­turned, and made all the con­gre­ga­tion to mur­mur against him, by bring­ing up a slan­der upon the land, 37 Even those men that did bring up the evil re­port upon the land, died by the plague be­fore the LORD. 38 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Je­phun­neh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still. 39 And Moses told these say­ings unto all the chil­dren of Is­rael: and the peo­ple mourned 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 have sinned. 41 And Moses said, Where­fore now do ye transgress the com­mand­ment of the LORD? but it shall not pros­per. 42 Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smit­ten be­fore your en­e­mies. 43 For the Amalekites and the Canaan­ites are there be­fore you, and ye shall fall by the sword: be­cause ye are turned away from the LORD, there­fore the LORD will not be with you. 44 But they 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 came down, and the Canaan­ites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and dis­com­fit­ed them, even unto Hormah.