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Numbers 14 (WEBP)

[1] All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
[2] All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness!
[3] Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be captured or killed! Wouldn’t it be better for us to return into Egypt?”
[4] They said to one another, “Let’s choose a leader, and let’s return into Egypt.”
[5] Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
[6] Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes.
[7] They spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, “The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land.
[8] If Yahweh delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us: a land which flows with milk and honey.
[9] Only don’t rebel against Yahweh, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us. Their defense is removed from over them, and Yahweh is with us. Don’t fear them.”
[10] But all the congregation threatened to stone them with stones. Yahweh’s glory appeared in the Tent of Meeting to all the children of Israel.
[11] Yahweh said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? How long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?
[12] I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”
[13] Moses said to Yahweh, “Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them.
[14] They will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you Yahweh are among this people; for you Yahweh are seen face to face, and 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.
[15] Now if you killed this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,
[16] ‘Because Yahweh was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.’
[17] Now please let the power of the Lord§ be great, according as you have spoken, saying,
[18] ‘Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’
[19] Please pardon the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your loving kindness, and just as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.”
[20] Yahweh said, “I have pardoned according to your word;
[21] but in very deed—as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with Yahweh’s glory—
[22] because all those men who have seen my glory and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;
[23] surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who despised me see it.
[24] But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him I will bring into the land into which he went. His offspring shall possess it.
[25] Since the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley, tomorrow turn and go into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.”
[26] Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
[27] “How long shall I bear with this evil congregation that complain against me? I have heard the complaints of the children of Israel, which they complain against me.
[28] Tell them, ‘As I live, says Yahweh, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so I will do to you.
[29] Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were counted of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have complained against me,
[30] surely you shall not come into the land concerning which I swore that I would make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
[31] But I will bring in your little ones that you said should be captured or killed, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.
[32] But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.
[33] Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies are consumed in the wilderness.
[34] After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, you will bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you will know my alienation.’
[35] I, Yahweh, have spoken. I will surely do this to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.”
[36] The men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation to murmur against him by bringing up an evil report against the land,
[37] even those men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Yahweh.
[38] But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive of those men who went to spy out the land.
[39] Moses told these words to all the children of Israel, and the people mourned greatly.
[40] They rose up early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, “Behold, we are here, and will go up to the place which Yahweh has promised; for we have sinned.”
[41] Moses said, “Why now do you disobey the commandment of Yahweh, since it shall not prosper?
[42] Don’t go up, for Yahweh isn’t among you; that way you won’t be struck down before your enemies.
[43] For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and you will fall by the sword because you turned back from following Yahweh; therefore Yahweh will not be with you.”
[44] But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain. Nevertheless, the ark of Yahweh’s covenant and Moses didn’t depart out of the camp.
[45] Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites who lived in that mountain, and struck them and beat them down even to Hormah.

Numbers 14:17 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”

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Numbers 14 (KJVS)

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[2] And all the children H1121 of Israel H3478 murmured H3885 (8735) against Moses H4872 and against Aaron H175: and the whole congregation H5712 said H559 (8799) unto them, Would God H3863 that we had died H4191 (8804) in the land H776 of Egypt H4714! or would God H3863 we had died H4191 (8804) in this wilderness H4057!
[3] And wherefore hath the LORD H3068 brought H935 (8688) us unto this land H776, to fall H5307 (8800) by the sword H2719, that our wives H802 and our children H2945 should be a prey H957? were it not better H2896 for us to return H7725 (8800) into Egypt H4714?
[4] And they said H559 (8799) one H376 to another H251, Let us make H5414 (8799) a captain H7218, and let us return H7725 (8799) into Egypt H4714.
[5] Then Moses H4872 and Aaron H175 fell H5307 (8799) on their faces H6440 before H6440 all the assembly H6951 of the congregation H5712 of the children H1121 of Israel H3478.
[6] And Joshua H3091 the son H1121 of Nun H5126, and Caleb H3612 the son H1121 of Jephunneh H3312, [which were] of them that searched H8446 (8802) the land H776, rent H7167 (8804) their clothes H899:
[7] And they spake H559 (8799) unto all the company H5712 of the children H1121 of Israel H3478, saying H559 (8800), The land H776, which we passed H5674 (8804) through to search H8446 (8800) it, [is] an exceeding H3966 H3966 good H2896 land H776.
[8] If the LORD H3068 delight H2654 (8804) in us, then he will bring H935 (8689) us into this land H776, and give H5414 (8804) it us; a land H776 which floweth H2100 (8802) with milk H2461 and honey H1706.
[9] Only rebel H4775 (8799) not ye against the LORD H3068, neither fear H3372 (8799) ye the people H5971 of the land H776; for they [are] bread H3899 for us: their defence H6738 is departed H5493 (8804) from them, and the LORD H3068 [is] with us: fear H3372 (8799) them not.
[10] But all the congregation H5712 bade H559 (8799) stone H7275 (8800) them with stones H68. And the glory H3519 of the LORD H3068 appeared H7200 (8738) in the tabernacle H168 of the congregation H4150 before all the children H1121 of Israel H3478.
[11] And the LORD H3068 said H559 (8799) unto Moses H4872, How long will this people H5971 provoke H5006 (8762) me? and how long will it be ere H3808 they believe H539 (8686) me, for all the signs H226 which I have shewed H6213 (8804) among H7130 them?
[12] I will smite H5221 (8686) them with the pestilence H1698, and disinherit H3423 (8686) them, and will make H6213 (8799) of thee a greater H1419 nation H1471 and mightier H6099 than they.
[13] And Moses H4872 said H559 (8799) unto the LORD H3068, Then the Egyptians H4714 shall hear H8085 (8804) [it], (for thou broughtest up H5927 (8689) this people H5971 in thy might H3581 from among H7130 them;)
[14] And they will tell H559 (8804) [it] to the inhabitants H3427 (8802) of this land H776: [for] they have heard H8085 (8804) that thou LORD H3068 [art] among H7130 this people H5971, that thou LORD H3068 art seen H7200 (8738) face H5869 to face H5869, and [that] thy cloud H6051 standeth H5975 (8802) over them, and [that] thou goest H1980 (8802) before H6440 them, by day time H3119 in a pillar H5982 of a cloud H6051, and in a pillar H5982 of fire H784 by night H3915.
[15] Now [if] thou shalt kill H4191 (8689) [all] this people H5971 as one H259 man H376, then the nations H1471 which have heard H8085 (8804) the fame H8088 of thee will speak H559 (8804), saying H559 (8800),
[16] Because the LORD H3068 was not H1115 able H3201 (8800) to bring H935 (8687) this people H5971 into the land H776 which he sware H7650 (8738) unto them, therefore he hath slain H7819 (8799) them in the wilderness H4057.
[17] And now, I beseech thee, let the power H3581 of my Lord H136 be great H1431 (8799), according H834 as thou hast spoken H1696 (8765), saying H559 (8800),
[18] The LORD H3068 [is] longsuffering H750 H639, and of great H7227 mercy H2617, forgiving H5375 (8802) iniquity H5771 and transgression H6588, and by no means H5352 (8763) clearing H5352 (8762) [the guilty], visiting H6485 (8802) the iniquity H5771 of the fathers H1 upon the children H1121 unto the third H8029 and fourth H7256 [generation].
[19] Pardon H5545 (8798), I beseech thee, the iniquity H5771 of this people H5971 according unto the greatness H1433 of thy mercy H2617, and as thou hast forgiven H5375 (8804) this people H5971, from Egypt H4714 even until now H2008.
[20] And the LORD H3068 said H559 (8799), I have pardoned H5545 (8804) according to thy word H1697:
[21] But [as] truly H199 [as] I live H2416, all the earth H776 shall be filled H4390 (8735) with the glory H3519 of the LORD H3068.
[22] Because all those men H582 which have seen H7200 (8802) my glory H3519, and my miracles H226, which I did H6213 (8804) in Egypt H4714 and in the wilderness H4057, and have tempted H5254 (8762) H853 me now these ten H6235 times H6471, and have not hearkened H8085 (8804) to my voice H6963;
[23] Surely they shall not H518 see H7200 (8799) the land H776 which I sware H7650 (8738) unto their fathers H1, neither shall any of them that provoked H5006 (8764) me see H7200 (8799) it:
[24] But my servant H5650 Caleb H3612, because H6118 he had another H312 spirit H7307 with him, and hath followed H310 me fully H4390 (8762), him will I bring H935 (8689) into the land H776 whereinto he went H935 (8804); and his seed H2233 shall possess H3423 (8686) it.
[25] (Now the Amalekites H6003 and the Canaanites H3669 dwelt H3427 (8802) in the valley H6010.) To morrow H4279 turn H6437 (8798) you, and get H5265 (8798) you into the wilderness H4057 by the way H1870 of the Red H5488 sea H3220.
[26] And the LORD H3068 spake H1696 (8762) unto Moses H4872 and unto Aaron H175, saying H559 (8800),
[27] How long [shall I bear with] this evil H7451 congregation H5712, which murmur H3885 (8688) against me? I have heard H8085 (8804) the murmurings H8519 of the children H1121 of Israel H3478, which they murmur H3885 (8688) against me.
[28] Say H559 (8798) unto them, [As truly as] H3808 I live H2416, saith H5002 (8803) the LORD H3068, as ye have spoken H1696 (8765) in mine ears H241, so will I do H6213 (8799) to you:
[29] Your carcases H6297 shall fall H5307 (8799) in this wilderness H4057; and all that were numbered H6485 (8803) of you, according to your whole number H4557, from twenty H6242 years H8141 old H1121 and upward H4605, which have murmured H3885 (8689) against me,
[30] Doubtless ye shall not H518 come H935 (8799) into the land H776, [concerning] which I sware H3027 H5375 (8804) to make you dwell H7931 (8763) therein, save Caleb H3612 the son H1121 of Jephunneh H3312, and Joshua H3091 the son H1121 of Nun H5126.
[31] But your little ones H2945, which ye said H559 (8804) should be a prey H957, them will I bring in H935 (8689), and they shall know H3045 (8804) the land H776 which ye have despised H3988 (8804).
[32] But [as for] you, your carcases H6297, they shall fall H5307 (8799) in this wilderness H4057.
[33] And your children H1121 shall wander H7462 (8802) in the wilderness H4057 forty H705 years H8141, and bear H5375 (8804) your whoredoms H2184, until your carcases H6297 be wasted H8552 (8800) in the wilderness H4057.
[34] After the number H4557 of the days H3117 in which ye searched H8446 (8804) the land H776, [even] forty H705 days H3117, each day H3117 for a year H8141 H3117 H8141, shall ye bear H5375 (8799) your iniquities H5771, [even] forty H705 years H8141, and ye shall know H3045 (8804) my breach of promise H8569.
[35] I the LORD H3068 have said H1696 (8765), I will surely H518 H3808 do H6213 (8799) it H2063 unto all this evil H7451 congregation H5712, that are gathered together H3259 (8737) against me: in this wilderness H4057 they shall be consumed H8552 (8735), and there they shall die H4191 (8799).
[36] And the men H582, which Moses H4872 sent H7971 (8804) to search H8446 (8800) the land H776, who returned H7725 (8799), and made all the congregation H5712 to murmur H3885 (8686) (8675) H3885 (8735) against him, by bringing up H3318 (8687) a slander H1681 upon the land H776,
[37] Even those H582 men H582 that did bring up H3318 (8688) the evil H7451 report H1681 upon the land H776, died H4191 (8799) by the plague H4046 before H6440 the LORD H3068.
[38] But Joshua H3091 the son H1121 of Nun H5126, and Caleb H3612 the son H1121 of Jephunneh H3312, [which were] of the men H1992 H582 that went H1980 (8802) to search H8446 (8800) the land H776, lived H2421 (8804) [still].
[39] And Moses H4872 told H1696 (8762) these sayings H1697 unto all the children H1121 of Israel H3478: and the people H5971 mourned H56 (8691) greatly H3966.
[40] And they rose up early H7925 (8686) in the morning H1242, and gat them up H5927 (8799) into the top H7218 of the mountain H2022, saying H559 (8800), Lo H2009, we [be here], and will go up H5927 (8804) unto the place H4725 which the LORD H3068 hath promised H559 (8804): for we have sinned H2398 (8804).
[41] And Moses H4872 said H559 (8799), Wherefore now do ye transgress H5674 (8802) the commandment H6310 of the LORD H3068? but it shall not prosper H6743 (8799).
[42] Go not up H5927 (8799), for the LORD H3068 [is] not among H7130 you; that ye be not smitten H5062 (8735) before H6440 your enemies H341 (8802).
[43] For the Amalekites H6003 and the Canaanites H3669 [are] there before H6440 you, and ye shall fall H5307 (8804) by the sword H2719: because ye are turned H7725 (8804) away H310 from the LORD H3068, therefore the LORD H3068 will not be with you.
[44] But they presumed H6075 (8686) to go up H5927 (8800) unto the hill H2022 top H7218: nevertheless the ark H727 of the covenant H1285 of the LORD H3068, and Moses H4872, departed H4185 (8804) not out H7130 of the camp H4264.
[45] Then the Amalekites H6003 came down H3381 (8799), and the Canaanites H3669 which dwelt H3427 (8802) in that hill H2022, and smote H5221 (8686) them, and discomfited H3807 (8686) them, [even] unto Hormah H2767.

Young’s Literal Translation

Numbers 14 (YLT)

[1] And all the company lifteth up and give forth their voice, and the people weep during that night;
[2] and 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!
[3] and 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?’
[4] And they say one unto another, ‘Let us appoint a head, and turn back to Egypt.’
[5] And Moses falleth-Aaron also-on their faces, before all the assembly of the company of the sons of Israel.
[6] And Joshua son of Nun, and Caleb son of Jephunneh, of those spying the land, have rent their garments,
[7] and 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;
[8] if 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;
[9] only, 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.’
[10] And 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.
[11] And 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?
[12] I smite it with pestilence, and dispossess it, and make thee become a nation greater and mightier than it.’
[13] And Moses saith unto Jehovah, ‘Then have the Egyptians heard! for Thou hast brought up with Thy power this people out of their midst,
[14] and 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.
[15] ‘And Thou hast put to death this people as one man, and the nations who have heard Thy fame have spoken, saying,
[16] From 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.
[17] ‘And now, let, I pray Thee, the power of my Lord be great, as Thou hast spoken, saying:
[18] Jehovah 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;-
[19] forgive, 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.’
[20] And Jehovah saith, ‘I have forgiven, according to thy word;
[21] and yet, I live-and it is filled-the whole earth-with the honour of Jehovah;
[22] for 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-
[23] they see not the land which I have sworn to their fathers, yea, none of those despising Me see it;
[24] and 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.
[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.’
[26] And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, and unto Aaron, saying,
[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;
[28] say unto them, I live-an affirmation of Jehovah-if, as ye have spoken in Mine ears-so I do not to you;
[29] in 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;
[30] ye-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.
[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;
[32] as to you-your carcases do fall in this wilderness,
[33] and your sons are evil in the wilderness forty years, and have borne your whoredoms till your carcases are consumed in the wilderness;
[34] by 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;
[35] I 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.’
[36] And 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,
[37] even the men bringing out an evil account of the land die by the plague before Jehovah;
[38] and Joshua son of Nun, and Caleb son of Jephunneh, have lived of those men who go to spy out the land.
[39] And Moses speaketh these words unto all the sons of Israel, and the people mourn exceedingly,
[40] and 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.’
[41] And Moses saith, ‘Why is this?-ye are transgressing the command of Jehovah, and it doth not prosper;
[42] go not up, for Jehovah is not in your midst, and ye are not smitten before your enemies;
[43] for 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.’
[44] And 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.
[45] And the Amalekite and the Canaanite who are dwelling in that mountain come down and smite them, and beat them down-unto Hormah.