Numbers 14 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

The People Rebel

Num 14:1And all the company lifteth up and give forth their voice, and the people weep during that night;

Num 14:2and all the sons of Israel murmur against Moses, and against Aaron, and all the company say unto them, 'O that we had died in the land of Egypt, or in this wilderness, O that we had died!

Num 14:3

Num 14:3and why is Jehovah bringing us in unto this land to fall by the sword? our wives and our infants are become a prey; is it not good for us to turn back to Egypt?'

Num 14:4

Num 14:4And they say one unto another, 'Let us appoint a head, and turn back to Egypt.'

Num 14:5

Num 14:5And Moses falleth -- Aaron also -- on their faces, before all the assembly of the company of the sons of Israel.

Num 14:6

Num 14:6And Joshua son of Nun, and Caleb son of Jephunneh, of those spying the land, have rent their garments,

Num 14:7

Num 14:7and 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;

Num 14:8

Num 14:8if 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;

Num 14:9

Num 14:9only, 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.'

Num 14:10

Num 14:10And 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.

Moses Pleads for the People

Num 14:11

Num 14:11And 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?

Num 14:12

Num 14:12I smite it with pestilence, and dispossess it, and make thee become a nation greater and mightier than it.'

Num 14:13

Num 14:13And Moses saith unto Jehovah, 'Then have the Egyptians heard! for Thou hast brought up with Thy power this people out of their midst,

Num 14:14

Num 14:14and 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.

Num 14:15

Num 14:15'And Thou hast put to death this people as one man, and the nations who have heard Thy fame have spoken, saying,

Num 14:16

Num 14:16From 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.

Num 14:17

Num 14:17'And now, let, I pray Thee, the power of my Lord be great, as Thou hast spoken, saying:

Num 14:18

Num 14:18Jehovah 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; --

Num 14:19

Num 14:19forgive, 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.'

The LORD Pardons and Rebukes

Num 14:20

Num 14:20And Jehovah saith, 'I have forgiven, according to thy word;

Num 14:21

Num 14:21and yet, I live -- and it is filled -- the whole earth -- with the honour of Jehovah;

Num 14:22

Num 14:22for 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 --

Num 14:23

Num 14:23they see not the land which I have sworn to their fathers, yea, none of those despising Me see it;

Num 14:24

Num 14:24and 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.

Num 14:25

Num 14:25'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.'

Num 14:26

Num 14:26And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, and unto Aaron, saying,

Num 14:27

Num 14:27'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;

Num 14:28

Num 14:28say unto them, I live -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- if, as ye have spoken in Mine ears -- so I do not to you;

Num 14:29

Num 14:29in 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;

Num 14:30

Num 14:30ye -- 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.

Num 14:31

Num 14:31'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;

Num 14:32

Num 14:32as to you -- your carcases do fall in this wilderness,

Num 14:33

Num 14:33and your sons are evil in the wilderness forty years, and have borne your whoredoms till your carcases are consumed in the wilderness;

Num 14:34

Num 14:34by the number of the days in which ye spied the land, forty days, -- a day for a year, a day for a year -- ye do bear your iniquities, forty years, and ye have known my breaking off;

Num 14:35

Num 14:35I am Jehovah, I have spoken; if I do not this to all this evil company who are meeting against me; -- in this wilderness they are consumed, and there they die.'

Num 14:36

Num 14:36And the men whom Moses hath sent to spy the land, and they turn back and cause all the company to murmur against him, by bringing out an evil account concerning the land,

Num 14:37

Num 14:37even the men bringing out an evil account of the land die by the plague before Jehovah;

Num 14:38

Num 14:38and Joshua son of Nun, and Caleb son of Jephunneh, have lived of those men who go to spy out the land.

Israel Repulsed

(Deu 1:41–45 )

Num 14:39

Num 14:39And Moses speaketh these words unto all the sons of Israel, and the people mourn exceedingly,

Num 14:40

Num 14:40and they rise early in the morning, and go up unto the top of the mountain, saying, 'Here we are, and we have come up unto the place which Jehovah hath spoken of, for we have sinned.'

Num 14:41

Num 14:41And Moses saith, 'Why is this? -- ye are transgressing the command of Jehovah, and it doth not prosper;

Num 14:42

Num 14:42go not up, for Jehovah is not in your midst, and ye are not smitten before your enemies;

Num 14:43

Num 14:43for the Amalekite and the Canaanite are there before you, and ye have fallen by the sword, because that ye have turned back from after Jehovah, and Jehovah is not with you.'

Num 14:44

Num 14:44And they presume to go up unto the top of the mountain, and the ark of the covenant of Jehovah and Moses have not departed out of the midst of the camp.

Num 14:45

Num 14:45And the Amalekite and the Canaanite who are dwelling in that mountain come down and smite them, and beat them down -- unto Hormah.

The Young's Literal Translation was translated by Robert Young, who believed in a strictly literal translation of God's word. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.

Numbers 14 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

The People Rebel

Moses Pleads for the People

The LORD Pardons and Rebukes

Israel Repulsed

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