Numbers - douay rheims

Chapter 14

¹ Therefore the whole multitude crying wept that night.
² And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying:
³ Would God that we had died in Egypt and would God we may die in this vast wilderness, and that the Lord may not bring us into this land, lest we fall by the sword, and our wives and children be led away captives. Is it not better to return into Egypt?
⁴ And they said one to another: Let us appoint a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
⁵ And when Moses and Aaron heard this, they fell down flat upon the ground before the multitude of the children of Israel.
⁶ But Josue the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephone, who themselves also had viewed the land, rent their garments,
⁷ And said to all the multitude of the children of Israel: The land which we have gone round is very good:
⁸ If the Lord be favourable, he will bring us into it, and give us a land flowing with milk and honey.
⁹ Be not rebellious against the Lord: and fear ye not the people of this land, for we are able to eat them up as bread. All aid is gone from them: the Lord is with us, fear ye not.
¹⁰ And when all the multitude cried out, and would have stoned them, the glory of the Lord appeared over the tabernacle of the covenant to all the children of Israel.
¹¹ And the Lord said to Moses: How long will this people detract me? how long will they not believe me for all the signs that I have wrought before them?
¹² I will strike them therefore with pestilence, and will consume them: but thee I will make a ruler over a great nation, and a mightier than this is.
¹³ And Moses said to the Lord: That the Egyptians, from the midst of whom thou hast brought forth this people,
¹⁴ And the inhabitants of this land, (who have heard that thou, O Lord, art among this people, and art seen face to face, and thy cloud protecteth them, and thou goest before them in a pillar of a cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night,)
¹⁵ May hear that thou hast killed so great a multitude as it were one man and may say:
¹⁶ He could not bring the people into the land for which he had sworn, therefore did he kill them in the wilderness.
¹⁷ Let their the strength of the Lord be magnified, as thou hast sworn, saying:
¹⁸ The Lord is patient and full of mercy, taking away iniquity and wickedness, and leaving no man clear, who visitest the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
¹⁹ Forgive, I beseech thee, the sins of this people, according to the greatness of thy mercy, as thou hast been merciful to them from their going out of Egypt unto this place.
²⁰ And the Lord said: I have forgiven according to thy word.
²¹ As I live: and the whole earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord.
²² But yet all the men that have seen my majesty, and the signs that I have done in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now ten times, and have not obeyed my voice,
²³ Shall not see the land for which I aware to their fathers, neither shall any one of them that hath detracted me behold it.
²⁴ My servant Caleb, who being full of another spirit hath followed me, I will bring into this land which he hath gone round: and his seed shall possess it.
²⁵ For the Amalecite and the Chanaanite dwell in the valleys. To morrow remove the camp, and return into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.
²⁶ And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:
²⁷ How long doth this wicked multitude murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel.
²⁸ Say therefore to them: As I live, saith the Lord: According as you have spoken in my hearing, so will I do to you.
²⁹ fin the wilderness shall your carcasses lie. All you that were numbered from twenty years old and upward, and have murmured against me,
³⁰ Shall not enter into the land, over which I lifted up my bend to make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephone, and Josue the son of Nun.
³¹ But your children, of whom you said, that they should be a prey to the enemies, will I bring in: that they may see the land which you have despised.
³² Your carcasses shall lie in the wilderness.
³³ Your children shall wander in the desert forty years, and shall bear your fornication, until the carcasses of their fathers be consumed ill the desert,
³⁴ According to the number of the forty days, wherein you viewed the land: a year shall be counted for a day. And forty years you shall receive your iniquities, and shall know my revenge:
³⁵ For as I have spoken, so will I do to all this wicked multitude, that hath risen up together against me: in this wilderness shall it faint away and die.
³⁶ Therefore all the men, whom Moses had sent to view the land, and who at their return had made the whole multitude to murmur against him, speaking ill of the land that it was naught,
³⁷ Died and were struck in the sight of the Lord.
³⁸ But Josue .the son of Nun. and Caleb the son of Jephone lived, of all them that had gone to view the land.
³⁹ And Moses spoke all these words to all the children of Israel, and the people mourned exceedingly.
⁴⁰ And behold rising up very early in the morning, they went up to the top of the mountain, and said: We are ready to go up to the place, of which the Lord hath spoken: for we have sinned.
⁴¹ And Moses said to them: Why transgress you the word of the Lord, which shall not succeed prosperously with you?
⁴² Go not up, for the Lord is not with you: lest you fall before your enemies.
⁴³ The Amalecite and the Chanaanite are before you, and by their sword you shall fall, because you would not consent to the Lord, neither will the Lord be with you.
⁴⁴ But they being blinded went up to the top of the mountain. But the ark of the testament of the Lord and Moses departed not from the camp.
⁴⁵ And the Amalecite came down, and the Chanaanite that dwelt in the mountain: and smiting and slaying them pursued them as far as Horma.

Numbers - webster

Chapter 14

¹ And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
² And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said to them, O that we had died in the land of Egypt! or O that we had died in this wilderness!
³ And why hath the LORD brought us to 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?
⁴ And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us 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 And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:
⁷ And they spoke to all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.
⁸ If the LORD delighteth in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
⁹ Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defense has departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.
¹⁰ But all the congregation required to stone them with stones: and the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.
¹¹ And the LORD said to 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 shown among them?
¹² I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
¹³ And Moses said to the LORD, Then the Egyptians will hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among 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 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.
¹⁵ Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
¹⁶ Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.
¹⁷ And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,
¹⁸ The LORD is long-suffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation.
¹⁹ Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt, even until now.
²⁰ And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word:
²¹ But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD.
²² Because all those men who 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;
²³ Surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
²⁴ But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land into which he went; and his seed shall possess it.
²⁵ (Now the Amalekites, and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To-morrow turn you, and pass into the wilderness, by the way of the Red sea.
²⁶ And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
²⁷ 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.
²⁸ Say to them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you:
²⁹ Your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me,
³⁰ Doubtless ye shall not come into the land concerning which I swore to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
³¹ 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.
³² But as for you, your carcasses, they shall fall in this wilderness.
³³ And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your lewd deeds, until your carcasses shall be wasted in the wilderness.
³⁴ 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.
³⁵ I the LORD have said, I will surely do it to all this evil congregation, that are gathered against me: in this wilderness, they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
³⁶ And the men whom Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing a slander upon the land,
³⁷ Even those men that brought the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
³⁸ But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.
³⁹ And Moses told these sayings to all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.
⁴⁰ And they rose early in the morning, and ascended to the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we are here, and will go up to the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned.
⁴¹ And Moses said, Why now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.
⁴² Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies.
⁴³ 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.
⁴⁴ But they presumed to go up to the hill-top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.
⁴⁵ Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even to Hormah.

Numbers - world english bible

Chapter 14

¹ the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
² the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against 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!
³ does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: wouldn't it be better for us to return into Egypt?"
⁴ said one to another, "Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt."
⁵ Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
⁶ 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 exceeding good land.
⁸ 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 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 all the congregation threatened to stone them with stones. The glory of Yahweh appeared in the Tent of Meeting to all the children of Israel.
¹¹ said to Moses, "How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?
¹² will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they."
¹³ 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 in the midst of 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 if you killed this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,
¹⁶ 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 please let the power of the Lord be great, according as you have spoken, saying,
¹⁸ is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that 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 pardon the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your loving kindness, and according as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now."
²⁰ said, "I have pardoned according to your word:
²¹ in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of Yahweh;
²² 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 they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who despised me see it:
²⁴ my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him will I bring into the land into which he went; and his seed shall possess it.
²⁵ the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley: tomorrow turn, and go into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea."
²⁶ spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
²⁷ long [shall I bear] with this evil congregation, that murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
²⁸ them, 'As I live, says Yahweh, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you:
²⁹ dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me,
³⁰ 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 your little ones, that you said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.
³² as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.
³³ children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.
³⁴ 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 Yahweh, have spoken, surely this will I do to all this evil congregation, who are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die."
³⁶ 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 those men who did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Yahweh.
³⁸ Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, remained alive of those men who went to spy out the land.
³⁹ told these words to all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.
⁴⁰ 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 said, "Why now do you disobey the commandment of Yahweh, since it shall not prosper?
⁴² go up, for Yahweh isn't among you; that you not be struck down before your enemies.
⁴³ there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and you shall fall by the sword: because you are turned back from following Yahweh, therefore Yahweh will not be with you."
⁴⁴ they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and Moses, didn't depart out of the camp.
⁴⁵ the Amalekite came down, and the Canaanite who lived in that mountain, and struck them and beat them down, even to Hormah.

Numbers - darby

Chapter 14

¹ And the whole assembly lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
² And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron; and the whole assembly said to them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or in this wilderness would that we had died!
³ And why is Jehovah bringing us to this land that we may fall by the sword, that our wives and our little ones may become a prey? Is it not better for us to return to Egypt?
⁴ And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return to Egypt.
⁵ Then Moses and Aaron fell upon their faces before the whole congregation of the assembly of the children of Israel.
⁶ And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, of them that searched out the land, rent their garments.
⁷ And they spoke to the whole assembly of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it out, is a very, very good land.
⁸ If Jehovah delight in us, he will bring us into this land, and give it us, a land that flows with milk and honey;
⁹ only rebel not against Jehovah; and fear not the people of the land; for they shall be our food. Their defence is departed from them, and Jehovah is with us: fear them not.
¹⁰ And the whole assembly said that they should be stoned with stones. And the glory of Jehovah appeared in the tent of meeting to all the children of Israel.
¹¹ And Jehovah said to Moses, How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe me, for all the signs which I have done among them?
¹² I will smite them with the pestilence, and destroy them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.
¹³ And Moses said to Jehovah, Then the Egyptians will hear it; for in thy might thou broughtest up this people from the midst of them;
¹⁴ and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land, [who] have heard that thou, Jehovah, art in the midst of this people, that thou, Jehovah, lettest thyself be seen eye to eye, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night;
¹⁵ if thou now slayest this people as one man, then the nations that have heard thy fame will speak, saying,
¹⁶ Because Jehovah was not able to bring this people into the land that he had sworn unto them, he has therefore slain them in the wilderness.
¹⁷ And now, I beseech thee, let the power of the Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,
¹⁸ Jehovah is slow to anger, and abundant in goodness, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but by no means clearing [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and fourth [generation].
¹⁹ Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of thy loving-kindness, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
²⁰ And Jehovah said, I have pardoned according to thy word.
²¹ But as surely as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of Jehovah!
²² for all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice,
²³ shall in no wise see the land which I did swear unto their fathers: none of them that despised me shall see it.
²⁴ But my servant Caleb, because he hath another spirit in him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he came; and his seed shall possess it.
²⁵ (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valley.) To-morrow turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness, on the way to the Red sea.
²⁶ And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
²⁷ How long [shall I bear] with this evil assembly, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
²⁸ Say unto them, As surely as I live, saith Jehovah, if I do not do unto you as ye have spoken in mine ears!
²⁹ In this wilderness shall your carcases fall; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number from twenty years old and upwards, who have murmured against me,
³⁰ shall in no wise come into the land, concerning which I have lifted up my hand to make you dwell in it; save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
³¹ But your little ones, of whom ye said they should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land that ye have despised.
³² And as to you, your carcases shall fall in this wilderness.
³³ And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
³⁴ After the number of the days in which ye have searched out the land, forty days, each day for a year shall ye bear your iniquities forty years, and ye shall know mine estrangement [from you].
³⁵ I Jehovah have spoken; I will surely do it unto all this evil assembly which have gathered together against me! in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
³⁶ And the men whom Moses had sent to search out the land, who returned, and made the whole assembly to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report upon the land,
³⁷ even those men who had brought up an evil report upon the land, died by a plague before Jehovah.
³⁸ But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, lived still of the men that had gone to search out the land.
³⁹ And Moses told all these sayings to all the children of Israel; then the people mourned greatly.
⁴⁰ And they rose up early in the morning, and went up to the hill-top, saying, Here are we, and we will go up to the place of which Jehovah has spoken; for we have sinned.
⁴¹ And Moses said, Why now do ye transgress the commandment of Jehovah? but it shall not prosper!
⁴² Go not up, for Jehovah is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies;
⁴³ for the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword; for as ye have turned away from Jehovah, Jehovah will not be with you.
⁴⁴ Yet they presumed to go up to the hill-top; but the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, and Moses, did not depart from the midst of the camp.
⁴⁵ And the Amalekites and the Canaanites who dwelt on that hill, came down and smote them, and cut them to pieces, as far as Hormah.

Numbers - american standard version

Chapter 14

¹ And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
² And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this wilderness!
³ And wherefore doth Jehovah bring us unto this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
⁴ And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us 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 And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of them that spied out the land, rent their clothes:
⁷ and they spake unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceeding good land.
⁸ If Jehovah delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it unto us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
⁹ Only rebel not against Jehovah, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is removed from over them, and Jehovah is with us: fear them not.
¹⁰ But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of Jehovah appeared in the tent of meeting unto all the children of Israel.
¹¹ And Jehovah said unto Moses, How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have wrought among them?
¹² I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.
¹³ And Moses said unto Jehovah, Then the Egyptians will hear it; for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;
¹⁴ and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that thou Jehovah art in the midst of this people; for thou Jehovah art seen face to face, and thy cloud standeth 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 shalt kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
¹⁶ Because Jehovah was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.
¹⁷ And now, I pray thee, let the power of the Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,
¹⁸ Jehovah is slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; and that will by no means clear [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.
¹⁹ Pardon, I pray thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy lovingkindness, and according as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
²⁰ And Jehovah said, I have pardoned according to thy word:
²¹ but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of Jehovah;
²² because all those men that have seen my glory, and my signs, which I wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
²³ surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that despised me see it:
²⁴ 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.
²⁵ Now the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley: to-morrow turn ye, and get you into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.
²⁶ And Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
²⁷ How long [shall I bear] with this evil congregation, that murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
²⁸ Say unto them, As I live, saith Jehovah, surely as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
²⁹ your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, that have murmured against me,
³⁰ surely ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware that I would make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
³¹ But your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have rejected.
³² But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.
³³ And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whoredoms, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.
³⁴ After the number of the days in which ye spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my alienation.
³⁵ I, Jehovah, have spoken, surely this will I do unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
³⁶ And 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 that did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Jehovah.
³⁸ But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, remained alive of those men that went to spy out the land.
³⁹ And Moses told these words unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.
⁴⁰ And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up to the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we are here, and will go up unto the place which Jehovah hath promised: for we have sinned.
⁴¹ And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of Jehovah, seeing it shall not prosper?
⁴² Go not up, for Jehovah is not among you; that ye be not smitten down before your enemies.
⁴³ For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned back from following Jehovah, therefore Jehovah will not be with you.
⁴⁴ But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.
⁴⁵ Then the Amalekite came down, and the Canaanite who dwelt in that mountain, and smote them and beat them down, even unto Hormah.

Numbers - basic english

Chapter 14

¹ Then all the people gave load cries of grief, and all that night they gave themselves up to weeping.
² And all the children of Israel, crying out against Moses and Aaron, said, If only we had come to our death in the land of Egypt, or even in this waste land!
³ Why is the Lord taking us into this land to come to our death by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will get into strange hands: would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?
⁴ And they said to one another, Let us make a captain over us, and go back to Egypt.
⁵ Then Moses and Aaron went down on their faces before the meeting of the people.
⁶ And Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, two of those who had been to see the land, giving signs of grief,
⁷ Said to all the children of Israel, This land which we went through to see is a very good land.
⁸ And if the Lord has delight in us, he will take us into this land and give it to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
⁹ Only, do not go against the Lord or go in fear of the people of the land, for they will be our food; their strength has been taken from them and the Lord is with us: have no fear of them.
¹⁰ But all the people said they were to be stoned. Then the glory of the Lord was seen in the Tent of meeting, before the eyes of all the children of Israel.
¹¹ And the Lord said to Moses, How long will this people have no respect for me? how long will they be without faith, in the face of all the signs I have done among them?
¹² I will send disease on them for their destruction, and take away their heritage, and I will make of you a nation greater and stronger than they.
¹³ And Moses said to the Lord, Then it will come to the ears of the Egyptians; for by your power you took this people out from among them;
¹⁴ And they will give the news to the people of this land: they have had word that you, Lord, are present with this people, letting yourself be seen face to face, and that your cloud is resting over them, and that you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.
¹⁵ Now if you put to death all this people as one man, then the nations who have had word of your glory will say,
¹⁶ Because the Lord was not able to take this people into the land which he made an oath to give them, he sent destruction on them in the waste land.
¹⁷ So now, may my prayer come before you, and let the power of the Lord be great, as you said:
¹⁸ The Lord is slow to wrath and great in mercy, overlooking wrongdoing and evil, and will not let wrongdoers go free; sending punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation.
¹⁹ May the sin of this people have forgiveness, in the measure of your great mercy, as you have had mercy on them from Egypt up till now.
²⁰ And the Lord said, I have had mercy, as you say:
²¹ But truly, as I am living, and as all the earth will be full of the glory of the Lord;
²² Because all these men, having seen my glory and the signs which I have done in Egypt and in the waste land, still have put me to the test ten times, and have not given ear to my voice;
²³ They will not see the land about which I made an oath to their fathers; not one of these by whom I have not been honoured will see it.
²⁴ But my servant Caleb, because he had a different spirit in him, and has been true to me with all his heart, him I will take into that land into which he went, and his seed will have it for their heritage.
²⁵ Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites are in the valley; tomorrow, turning round, go into the waste land by the way to the Red Sea.
²⁶ Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
²⁷ How long am I to put up with this evil people and their outcries against me? The words which they say against me have come to my ears.
²⁸ Say to them, By my life, says the Lord, as certainly as your words have come to my ears, so certainly will I do this to you:
²⁹ Your dead bodies will be stretched out in this waste land; and of all your number, all those of twenty years old and over who have been crying out against me,
³⁰ Not one will come into the land which I gave my word you would have for your resting-place, but only Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, the son of Nun.
³¹ And your little ones, whom you said would come into strange hands, I will take in, and they will see the land which you would not have.
³² But as for you, your dead bodies will be stretched in this waste land.
³³ And your children will be wanderers in the waste land for forty years, undergoing punishment for your false ways, till your bodies become dust in the waste land.
³⁴ And as you went through the land viewing it for forty days, so for forty years, a year for every day, you will undergo punishment for your wrongdoing, and you will see that I am against you.
³⁵ I the Lord have said it, and this I will certainly do to all this evil people who have come together against me: in this waste land destruction will come on them, and death will be their fate.
³⁶ And the men whom Moses sent to see the land, and who, by the bad account they gave of the land, were the cause of the outcry the people made against Moses,
³⁷ Those same men who said evil of the land, came to their death by disease before the Lord.
³⁸ But Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, of those who went to see the land, were not touched by disease.
³⁹ And when Moses put these words before the children of Israel, the people were full of grief.
⁴⁰ And early in the morning they got up and went to the top of the mountain, saying, We are here and we will go up to the place which the Lord said he would give us: for we have done wrong.
⁴¹ And Moses said, Why are you now acting against the Lord's order, seeing that no good will come of it?
⁴² Go not up, for the Lord is not with you, and you will be overcome by those who are fighting against you.
⁴³ For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you will be put to death by their swords: because you have gone back from the way of the Lord, the Lord will not be with you.
⁴⁴ But they gave no attention to his words and went to the top of the mountain, though Moses and the ark of the Lord's agreement did not go out of the tent-circle.
⁴⁵ Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites who were living in the hill-country, and overcame them completely, driving them back as far as Hormah.