[1] Then all the congregation raised a loud cry; and the people wept that
night. [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! [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?" [4] And they said to one another, "Let us choose a captain, and go
back to Egypt." [5] Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the
assembly of the congregation of the people of Israel. [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, [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. [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. [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." [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. [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? [12] I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit
them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they." [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, [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. [15] Now if thou dost kill this
people as one man, then the nations who have heard thy fame will say, [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.' [17]
And now, I pray thee, let the power of the LORD be great as thou hast
promised, saying, [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.' [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." [20] Then the LORD said, "I have pardoned, according to your word;
[21] but truly, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the
glory of the LORD, [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, [23] shall see
the land which I swore to give to their fathers; and none of those who
despised me shall see it. [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. [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." [26] And the LORD said
to Moses and to Aaron, [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. [28] Say to them, `As I live,' says the LORD, `what you
have said in my hearing I will do to you: [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, [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. [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. [32] But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall
in this wilderness. [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. [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.' [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." [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, [37] the men who brought up an evil report of the land,
died by plague before the LORD. [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. [39] And Moses told these words to all the people of Israel, and the
people mourned greatly. [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." [41]
But Moses said, "Why now are you transgressing the command of the LORD, for
that will not succeed? [42] Do not go up lest you be struck down before
your enemies, for the LORD is not among you. [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." [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. [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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