2
And all the children of Israelmurmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregationsaid 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 LORDbrought 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?
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 congregationbadestone them with stones. And the glory of the LORDappeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.
11
And the LORDsaid unto Moses, How long will this peopleprovoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewedamong 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 seenface to face, and that thy cloudstandeth over them, and that thou goestbefore them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.
18
The LORD is longsuffering*, and of greatmercy,forgivinginiquity and transgression, and by no meansclearing 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.
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 tentimes, and have not hearkened to my voice;
24
But my servantCaleb,because he had anotherspirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.
26
And the LORDspake unto Moses and unto Aaron,saying,
r{mael !{r]h;a -l,a.w h,v{m -l,a h'wh.y reB;d.y;w
27
How long shall I bear with this evilcongregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
29
Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twentyyearsold and upward, which have murmured against me,
30
Doubtless ye shall notcome into the land, concerning which I sware* to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
34
After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even fortydays, each day for a year**, shall ye bear your iniquities, even fortyyears, and ye shall know my breach of promise.
35
I the LORD have said, I will surely*doit unto all this evilcongregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
36
And the men, which Mosessent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,
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.
43
For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turnedaway from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.