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| Numbers 14:1 |
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Then all the congregation lifted up their voices
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| Numbers 14:2 |
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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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| Numbers 14:3 |
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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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| Numbers 14:4 |
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So they said to one another, "Let us appoint
a leader and return to Egypt." |
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| Numbers 14:5 |
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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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| Numbers 14:6 |
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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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| Numbers 14:7 |
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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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| Numbers 14:8 |
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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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| Numbers 14:9 |
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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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| Numbers 14:10 |
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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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Moses Pleads for the People |
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| Numbers 14:11 |
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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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| Numbers 14:12 |
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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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| Numbers 14:13 |
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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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| Numbers 14:14 |
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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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| Numbers 14:15 |
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Now if You slay this people as one man, then
the nations who have heard of Your fame will say, |
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| Numbers 14:16 |
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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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| Numbers 14:17 |
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But now, I pray, let the power of the Lord be
great, just as You have declared, |
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| Numbers 14:18 |
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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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| Numbers 14:19 |
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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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The LORD Pardons and Rebukes |
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| Numbers 14:20 |
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So the LORD said, "I have pardoned them according
to your word; |
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| Numbers 14:21 |
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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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| Numbers 14:22 |
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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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| Numbers 14:23 |
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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. |
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| Numbers 14:24 |
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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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| Numbers 14:25 |
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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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| Numbers 14:26 |
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The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, |
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| Numbers 14:27 |
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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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| Numbers 14:28 |
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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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| Numbers 14:29 |
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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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| Numbers 14:30 |
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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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| Numbers 14:31 |
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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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| Numbers 14:32 |
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But as for you, your corpses will fall in this
wilderness. |
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| Numbers 14:33 |
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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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| Numbers 14:34 |
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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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| Numbers 14:35 |
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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.'" |
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| Numbers 14:36 |
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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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| Numbers 14:37 |
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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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| Numbers 14:38 |
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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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Israel Repulsed |
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| Numbers 14:39 |
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When Moses spoke these words to all the sons
of Israel, the people mourned greatly. |
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| Numbers 14:40 |
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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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| Numbers 14:41 |
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But Moses said, "Why then are you transgressing
the commandment of the LORD, when it will not succeed? |
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| Numbers 14:42 |
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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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| Numbers 14:43 |
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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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| Numbers 14:44 |
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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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| Numbers 14:45 |
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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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