Numbers 14 :: Darby Translation (DBY)

The People Rebel

Num 14:1And the whole assembly lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.

Num 14:2And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron; and the whole assembly said to them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or in this wilderness would that we had died!

Num 14:3

Num 14:3And why is Jehovah bringing us to this land that we may fall by the sword, that our wives and our little ones may become a prey? Is it not better for us to return to Egypt?

Num 14:4

Num 14:4And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return to Egypt.

Num 14:5

Num 14:5Then Moses and Aaron fell upon their faces before the whole congregation of the assembly of the children of Israel.

Num 14:6

Num 14:6And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, of them that searched out the land, rent their garments.

Num 14:7

Num 14:7And they spoke to the whole assembly of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it out, is a very, very good land.

Num 14:8

Num 14:8If Jehovah delight in us, he will bring us into this land, and give it us, a land that flows with milk and honey;

Num 14:9

Num 14:9only rebel not against Jehovah; and fear not the people of the land; for they shall be our food. Their defence is departed from them, and Jehovah is with us: fear them not.

Num 14:10

Num 14:10And the whole assembly said that they should be stoned with stones. And the glory of Jehovah appeared in the tent of meeting to all the children of Israel.

Moses Pleads for the People

Num 14:11

Num 14:11And Jehovah said to Moses, How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe me, for all the signs which I have done among them?

Num 14:12

Num 14:12I will smite them with the pestilence, and destroy them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.

Num 14:13

Num 14:13And Moses said to Jehovah, Then the Egyptians will hear it; for in thy might thou broughtest up this people from the midst of them;

Num 14:14

Num 14:14and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land, who have heard that thou, Jehovah, art in the midst of this people, that thou, Jehovah, lettest thyself be seen eye to eye, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night;

Num 14:15

Num 14:15if thou now slayest this people as one man, then the nations that have heard thy fame will speak, saying,

Num 14:16

Num 14:16Because Jehovah was not able to bring this people into the land that he had sworn unto them, he has therefore slain them in the wilderness.

Num 14:17

Num 14:17And now, I beseech thee, let the power of the Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,

Num 14:18

Num 14:18Jehovah is slow to anger, and abundant in goodness, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and fourth generation.

Num 14:19

Num 14:19Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of thy loving-kindness, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.

The LORD Pardons and Rebukes

Num 14:20

Num 14:20And Jehovah said, I have pardoned according to thy word.

Num 14:21

Num 14:21But as surely as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of Jehovah!

Num 14:22

Num 14:22for all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice,

Num 14:23

Num 14:23shall in no wise see the land which I did swear unto their fathers: none of them that despised me shall see it.

Num 14:24

Num 14:24But my servant Caleb, because he hath another spirit in him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he came; and his seed shall possess it.

Num 14:25

Num 14:25(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valley.) To-morrow turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness, on the way to the Red sea.

Num 14:26

Num 14:26And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

Num 14:27

Num 14:27How long shall I bear with this evil assembly, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.

Num 14:28

Num 14:28Say unto them, As surely as I live, saith Jehovah, if I do not do unto you as ye have spoken in mine ears!

Num 14:29

Num 14:29In this wilderness shall your carcases fall; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number from twenty years old and upwards, who have murmured against me,

Num 14:30

Num 14:30shall in no wise come into the land, concerning which I have lifted up my hand to make you dwell in it; save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

Num 14:31

Num 14:31But your little ones, of whom ye said they should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land that ye have despised.

Num 14:32

Num 14:32And as to you, your carcases shall fall in this wilderness.

Num 14:33

Num 14:33And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.

Num 14:34

Num 14:34After the number of the days in which ye have searched out the land, forty days, each day for a year shall ye bear your iniquities forty years, and ye shall know mine estrangement from you.

Num 14:35

Num 14:35I Jehovah have spoken; I will surely do it unto all this evil assembly which have gathered together against me! in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.

Num 14:36

Num 14:36And the men whom Moses had sent to search out the land, who returned, and made the whole assembly to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report upon the land,

Num 14:37

Num 14:37even those men who had brought up an evil report upon the land, died by a plague before Jehovah.

Num 14:38

Num 14:38But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, lived still of the men that had gone to search out the land.

Israel Repulsed

(Deu 1:41–45 )

Num 14:39

Num 14:39And Moses told all these sayings to all the children of Israel; then the people mourned greatly.

Num 14:40

Num 14:40And they rose up early in the morning, and went up to the hill-top, saying, Here are we, and we will go up to the place of which Jehovah has spoken; for we have sinned.

Num 14:41

Num 14:41And Moses said, Why now do ye transgress the commandment of Jehovah? but it shall not prosper!

Num 14:42

Num 14:42Go not up, for Jehovah is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies;

Num 14:43

Num 14:43for the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword; for as ye have turned away from Jehovah, Jehovah will not be with you.

Num 14:44

Num 14:44Yet they presumed to go up to the hill-top; but the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, and Moses, did not depart from the midst of the camp.

Num 14:45

Num 14:45And the Amalekites and the Canaanites who dwelt on that hill, came down and smote them, and cut them to pieces, as far as Hormah.

In 1867, John Nelson Darby translated the New Testament from Greek into English. Further revisions were done in 1872 and 1884. Darby’s work was first published as The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation from the Original Languages by J. N. Darby. After Darby’s death in 1882, some of his students worked together to produce the complete Darby Bible based on the Masoretic Hebrew text, Darby’s German (Elberfelder), and the French (Pau) translations. In 1890, the first complete Darby Bible was published in English. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

Numbers 14 :: Darby Translation (DBY)

The People Rebel

Moses Pleads for the People

The LORD Pardons and Rebukes

Israel Repulsed

Pericope