The Israelites Respond in Unbelief
1Then all the community raised a loud cry, and the people wept that night.
2And all the Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had perished in this wilderness!
3Why has the
4So they said to one another, “Let’s appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”
5Then Moses and Aaron fell down with their faces to the ground before the whole assembled community of the Israelites.
6And Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, two of those who had investigated the land, tore their garments.
7They said to the whole community of the Israelites, “The land we passed through to investigate is an exceedingly good land.
8If the
9Only do not rebel against the
10However, the whole community threatened to stone them. But the glory of the
The Punishment from God
11The
12I will strike them with the pestilence, and I will disinherit them; I will make you into a nation that is greater and mightier than they!”
13Moses said to the
14then they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you,
15If you kill this entire people at once, then the nations that have heard of your fame will say,
16‘Because the
17So now, let the power of my Lord be great, just as you have said,
18‘The
19Please forgive the iniquity of this people according to your great loyal love, just as you have forgiven this people from Egypt even until now.”
20Then the
21But truly, as I live, all the earth will be filled with the glory of the
22For all the people have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tempted me now these ten times, and have not obeyed me,
23they will by no means see the land that I swore to their fathers, nor will any of them who despised me see it.
24Only my servant Caleb, because he had a different spirit and has followed me fully – I will bring him into the land where he had gone, and his descendants will possess it.
25(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites were living in the valleys.) Tomorrow, turn and journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.”
26The
27“How long must I bear with this evil congregation that murmurs against me? I have heard the complaints of the Israelites that they murmured against me.
28Say to them, ‘As I live, says the
29Your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness – all those of you who were numbered, according to your full number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me.
30You will by no means enter into the land where I swore to settle you. The only exceptions are Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
31But I will bring in your little ones, whom you said would become victims of war, and they will enjoy the land that you have despised.
32But as for you, your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness,
33and your children will wander in the wilderness forty years and suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your dead bodies lie finished in the wilderness.
34According to the number of the days you have investigated this land, forty days – one day for a year – you will suffer for your iniquities, forty years, and you will know what it means to thwart me.
35I, the
36The men whom Moses sent to investigate the land, who returned and made the whole community murmur against him by producing an evil report about the land,
37those men who produced the evil report about the land, died by the plague before the
38But Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among the men who went to investigate the land, lived.
39When Moses told these things to all the Israelites, the people mourned greatly.
40And early in the morning they went up to the crest of the hill country, saying, “Here we are, and we will go up to the place that the
41But Moses said, “Why are you now transgressing the commandment of the
42Do not go up, for the
43For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you will fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from the
44But they dared to go up to the crest of the hill, although neither the ark of the covenant of the
45So the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country swooped down and attacked them as far as Hormah.
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