And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt (14:4)

Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel (14:5)

And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, [which were] of them that searched the land, rent their clothes: (14:6)

And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, [is] an exceeding good land (14:7)

If the Lord delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey (14:8)

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 (14:9)

But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the Lord appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel (14:10)

And the Lord said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have showed among them? (14:11)

I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they (14:12)

And Moses said unto the Lord, Then the Egyptians shall hear [it], (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;) (14:13)

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 seen face to face, and [that] thy cloud standeth over them, and [that] thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night (14:14)

Now [if] thou shalt kill [all] this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying, (14:15)

Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness (14:16)

And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying, (14:17)

The Lord [is] longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation] (14:18)

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 (14:19)

And the Lord said, I have pardoned according to thy word: (14:20)

But [as] truly [as] I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord (14:21)

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 ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; (14:22)

Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it: (14:23)

But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it (14:24)

(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To morrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea (14:25)

And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, (14:26)

How long [shall I bear with] this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me. (14:27) com1

Say unto them, [As truly as] I live, saith the Lord, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you: (14:28)

Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me, (14:29)

Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, [concerning] which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun (14:30)

But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised (14:31)

But [as for] you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness (14:32)

And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness. (14:33)

After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, [even] forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, [even] forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise. (14:34) 91 com3

I the Lord have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die (14:35)

And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land, (14:36)

Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the Lord (14:37)

But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, [which were] of the men that went to search the land, lived [still] (14:38)

And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly (14:39)

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 (14:40)

And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the Lord? but it shall not prosper (14:41)

Go not up, for the Lord [is] not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies (14:42)

For the Amalekites and the Canaanites [are] there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the Lord, therefore the Lord will not be with you (14:43)

But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and Moses, departed not out of the camp (14:44)

Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, [even] unto Hormah (14:45)

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