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Numbers 14 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:1 - Then all the congregation raised a loud cry; and the people wept that night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:2 - And all the people of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron; the whole congregation said to them, "Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness!

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:3 - Why does the LORD bring us into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become a prey; would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?"

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:4 - And they said to one another, "Let us choose a captain, and go back to Egypt."

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:5 - Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the people of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:6 - And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephun'neh, who were among those who had spied out the land, rent their clothes,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:7 - and said to all the congregation of the people of Israel, "The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:8 - If the LORD delights in us, he will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land which flows with milk and honey.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:9 - Only, do not rebel against the LORD; and do not fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us; their protection is removed from them, and the LORD is with us; do not fear them."

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:10 - But all the congregation said to stone them with stones. Then the glory of the LORD appeared at the tent of meeting to all the people of Israel.

Moses Pleads for the People

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:11 - And the LORD said to Moses, "How long will this people despise me? And how long will they not believe in me, in spite of all the signs which I have wrought among them?

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:12 - I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they."

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:13 - But Moses said to the LORD, "Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for thou didst bring up this people in thy might from among them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:14 - and they will tell the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that thou, O LORD, art in the midst of this people; for thou, O LORD, art seen face to face, and thy cloud stands over them and thou goest before them, in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:15 - Now if thou dost kill this people as one man, then the nations who have heard thy fame will say,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:16 - 'Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to give to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:17 - And now, I pray thee, let the power of the LORD be great as thou hast promised, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:18 - 'The LORD is slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of fathers upon children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:19 - Pardon the iniquity of this people, I pray thee, according to the greatness of thy steadfast love, and according as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now."

The LORD Pardons and Rebukes

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:20 - Then the LORD said, "I have pardoned, according to your word;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:21 - but truly, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:22 - none of the men who have seen my glory and my signs which I wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have put me to the proof these ten times and have not hearkened to my voice,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:23 - shall see the land which I swore to give to their fathers; and none of those who despised me shall see it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:24 - But my servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:25 - Now, since the Amal'ekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valleys, turn tomorrow and set out for the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea."

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:26 - And the LORD said to Moses and to Aaron,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:27 - "How long shall this wicked congregation murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the people of Israel, which they murmur against me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:28 - Say to them, 'As I live,' says the LORD, 'what you have said in my hearing I will do to you:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:29 - your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and of all your number, numbered from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:30 - not one shall come into the land where I swore that I would make you dwell, except Caleb the son of Jephun'neh and Joshua the son of Nun.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:31 - But your little ones, who you said would become a prey, I will bring in, and they shall know the land which you have despised.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:32 - But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:33 - And your children shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years, and shall suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:34 - According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, for every day a year, you shall bear your iniquity, forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:35

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:35 - I, the LORD, have spoken; surely this will I do to all this wicked congregation that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall come to a full end, and there they shall die."

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:36 - And the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, and who returned and made all the congregation to murmur against him by bringing up an evil report against the land,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:37 - the men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by plague before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:38 - But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephun'neh remained alive, of those men who went to spy out the land.

Israel Repulsed

(Deu 1:41–45 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:39 - And Moses told these words to all the people of Israel, and the people mourned greatly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:40

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:40 - And they rose early in the morning, and went up to the heights of the hill country, saying, "See, we are here, we will go up to the place which the LORD has promised; for we have sinned."

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:41

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:41 - But Moses said, "Why now are you transgressing the command of the LORD, for that will not succeed?

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:42

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:42 - Do not go up lest you be struck down before your enemies, for the LORD is not among you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:43

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:43 - For there the Amal'ekites and the Canaanites are before you, and you shall fall by the sword; because you have turned back from following the LORD, the LORD will not be with you."

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:44 - But they presumed to go up to the heights of the hill country, although neither the ark of the covenant of the LORD, nor Moses, departed out of the camp.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:45

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:45 - Then the Amal'ekites and the Canaanites who dwelt in that hill country came down, and defeated them and pursued them, even to Hormah.
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