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Then all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night.
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All the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron; and 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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"Why is the LORD bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become plunder; would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?"
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So they said to one another, "Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt."
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Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces in the presence of all the assembly of the congregation of the sons of Israel.
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Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, of those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes;
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and they spoke to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, saying, "The land which we passed through to spy out is an exceedingly good land.
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"If the LORD is pleased with us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us-a land which flows with milk and honey.
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"Only do not rebel against the LORD; and do not fear the people of the land, for they will be our prey. Their protection has been removed from them, and the LORD is with us; do not fear them."
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But all the congregation said to stone them with stones. Then the glory of the LORD appeared in the tent of meeting to all the sons of Israel.
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The LORD said to Moses, "How long will this people spurn Me? And how long will they not believe in Me, despite all the signs which I have performed in their midst?
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"I will smite them with pestilence and dispossess them, and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they."
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But Moses said to the LORD, "Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your strength You brought up this people from their midst,
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and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that You, O LORD, are in the midst of this people, for You, O LORD, are seen eye to eye, while Your cloud stands over them; and You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.
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"Now if You slay this people as one man, then the nations who have heard of Your fame will say,
.Wr.m'a.wt0559 d'x,at0259 vyia.Kt0376 h,Z;h ~'['ht05971 -t,a h'T;meh.w ? r{maelt0559 '$][.mivt08085 -t,a .W[.m'vt08088 -r,v]a ~Iyw{G;ht01471
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'Because the LORD could not bring this people into the land which He promised them by oath, therefore He slaughtered them in the wilderness.'
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"But now, I pray, let the power of the Lord be great, just as You have declared *,
'T.r;BiDt01696 r,v]a;Kt0834 y'n{d]at0136 ;x{Kt03581 a'n -l;D.gIyt01431 h'T;[.w ? r{maelt0559
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'The LORD is slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generations.'
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"Pardon, I pray, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of Your lovingkindness, just as You also have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now."
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So the LORD said, "I have pardoned them according to your word;
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but indeed, as I live, all the earth will be filled with the glory of the LORD.
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"Surely all the men who have seen My glory and My signs which I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have put Me to the test these ten times and have not listened to My voice,
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shall by no means see the land which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who spurned Me see it.
~'t{b]a;lt01 yiT.[;B.vint07650 r,v]a #,r'a'ht0776 -t,a .Wa.rIy -mia ? 'h.Wa.rIy a{l y;c]a;n.m -l'k.w
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"But My servant Caleb, because he has had a different spirit and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land which he entered, and his descendants shall take possession of it.
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"Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites live in the valleys; turn tomorrow and set out to the wilderness by the way of the Red * Sea."
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The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
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"How long * shall I bear with this evil congregation who are grumbling against Me? I have heard the complaints of the sons of Israel, which they are making against Me.
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"Say to them, 'As I live,' says the LORD, 'just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will surely do to you;
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your corpses will fall in this wilderness, even all your numbered men, according to your complete number from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against Me.
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'Surely you shall not come into the land in which I swore * to settle you, except * Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.
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'Your children, however, whom you said would become a prey -I will bring them in, and they will know the land which you have rejected.
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'But as for you, your corpses will fall in this wilderness.
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'Your sons shall be shepherds for forty years in the wilderness, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your corpses lie in the wilderness.
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'According to the number of days which you spied out the land, forty days, for every day you shall bear your guilt a year, even forty years, and you will know My opposition.
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'I, the LORD, have spoken, surely * this I will do to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. In this wilderness they shall be destroyed, and there they will die.' "
h,f/[,at06213 ta{zt02063 a{l -mia yiT.r;BiDt01696 h'wh.yt03068 yin]a ? y'l'[ ~yid'[w{N;h ta{Z;h h'['r'ht07451 h'de['ht05712 -l'k.l ? .WtUm'yt04191 ~'v.w .WM;TIy h,Z;h r'B.diM;Bt04057
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As for the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land and who returned and made all the congregation grumble against him by bringing out a bad report concerning the land,
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even those men who brought out the very bad report of the land died by a plague before the LORD.
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But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive out of those men who went to spy out the land.
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When Moses spoke these words to all the sons of Israel, the people mourned greatly.
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In the morning, however, they rose up early and went up to the ridge of the hill country, saying, "Here we are; we have indeed sinned, but we will go up to the place which the LORD has promised."
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But Moses said, "Why then are you transgressing the commandment of the LORD, when it will not succeed?
yiP -t,a ~yir.b{[t05674 ~,T;a h,Z h'M'l h,v{mt04872 r,ma{Y;wt0559 ? x'l.citt06743 a{l awih.w h'wh.y
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"Do not go up, or you will be struck down before your enemies, for the LORD is not among you.
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"For the Amalekites and the Canaanites will be there in front of you, and you will fall by the sword, inasmuch * * as you have turned back from following the LORD. And the LORD will not be with you."
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But they went up heedlessly to the ridge of the hill country; neither the ark of the covenant of the LORD nor Moses left the camp.
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Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country came down, and struck them and beat them down as far as Hormah.
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