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¹ Then did all the assembly lift up, and give forth their voice, - and the people wept throughout that night.² And all the sons of Israel, murmured against Moses and against Aaron, - and all the assembly said unto them - Oh that we had died in the land of Egypt, Or in this wilderness, oh that we had died!³ Wherefore then is Yahweh bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and little ones, will become a prey! Would it not be well for us to go back towards Egypt?⁴ And they said, one to another, - Let us appoint a head and let us go back towards Egypt.

⁵ Then did Moses and Aaron fall upon their faces, - before all the convocation of the assembly of the sons of Israel.⁶ But, Joshua son of Nun, and Caleb son of Jephunneh, of them who spied out the land, rent their clothes;⁷ and spake unto all the assembly of the sons of Israel, saying, - As for the land through which we passed to spy it out, Good, is the land, exceedingly,⁸ If Yahweh delight in us, then will he bring us into this and, and give it unto us, - A land which doth flow with milk and honey.⁹ Only against Yahweh, do not rebel. Do not, ye, fear the people of the land, For our food, they are, - Their shade hath departed, from over them. And Yahweh is with us, Do not fear them!¹⁰ But when all the assembly bade stone them with stones, the glory of Yahweh, appeared, in the tent of meeting, unto all the sons of Israel.

¹¹ Then said Yahweh unto How long! must this people, despise me? And how long can they not believe in me. in view of all the signs which I have done in their midst?¹² Let me smite them with pestilence, and disinherit them, - And make thee into a nation greater and more mighty than they!¹³ Then said Moses unto Yahweh, - So shall the Egyptians hear, For thou hast brought up. in thy might, this people out of their midst;¹⁴ And will tell it unto the inhabitants of this land: They have heard, That, thou, Yahweh, art in the midst of this people, - That eye to eye, is he seen - thou, Yahweh, And thy cloud, is standing over them, And in a pillar of cloud, thou thyself, art going on before them by day, And in a pillar of fire, by night.¹⁵ As soon, therefore, as thou hast put to death this people as one man, so soon will the nations who have heard thy fame speak saying:¹⁶ Because Yahweh, was not able, to bring in this people into the land which he had sworn unto them, therefore did he slay them in the desert.¹⁷ Now, therefore, I beseech thee let the might of My Lord, be magnified, - according as thou didst speak saying:¹⁸ Yahweh - slow to anger and great in lovingkindness, Forgiving iniquity and transgression: Though he will not leave, wholly unpunished, Visiting the iniquity of fathers upon sons, Upon a third generation, and upon a fourth.¹⁹ Pardon I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people, According to the greatness of thy lovingkindness, - And according as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even thus far.

²⁰ And Yahweh said, I have pardoned according to thy word;²¹ Nevertheless as I live, - and that all the earth may be filled with the glory of Yahweh,²² Verily, none of the men who have been beholding my glory and my signs, which I have done in Egypt and in the desert, - and have put me to the proof these ten times, and have not hearkened unto my voice,²³ shall see the land, which I sware to their fathers, - yea, none of my despisers, shall see it.²⁴ But my servant Caleb - because there was another spirit with him, and he followed me fully, therefore will I bring him into the land whereinto he entered, and his seed, shall possess it.²⁵ Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites, are dwelling in the valley, - to-morrow, turn ye away; and set yourselves forward towards the desert by the way of the Red Sea.²⁶ Then spake Yahweh unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying:²⁷ How long, as regardeth this evil assembly, re they to be murmuring against me? The murmuring of the sons of Israel which, they, have been murmuring against me, have I heard,²⁸ Say unto them: As I live, is the oracle of Yahweh: Surely as ye have spoken in mine ears, so, will I do unto you: - ²⁹ In this desert, shall your dead bodies fall And none of you who were numbered in all your counting, from twenty years old and upwards, - who have murmured against me,³⁰ none of you, shall enter into the land, as to which I uplifted my hand to give you an abode therein, - save Caleb son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, son of Nun:³¹ whereas, your little ones, of whom ye said, they should become, a prey, I will bring them in, and they shall acknowledge the land which ye refused.³² But, your own dead bodies, shall fall in this desert;³³ and your sons, shall be shepherds in the desert forty years, and shall bear your unchastities, - until your dead bodies are consumed in the desert.³⁴ By the number of the days wherein ye spied out the land - forty days, each day for a year, shall they bear your iniquities - forty years, - so shall ye know my opposition.³⁵ I - Yahweh, have spoken, Verily this, will I do to all this evil assembly, who have conspired against me, - In this desert, shall they be consumed And there, shall they die.

³⁶ Now as for the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, - who returned and caused all the assembly to murmur against him by giving out rumour against the land,³⁷ they died - the men who gave out an evil rumor of the land, - by the plague, before Yahweh.³⁸ But, Joshua son of Nun, and Caleb son of Jephunneh! remained alive - of those men who went to spy out the land.³⁹ And Moses spake these words unto all the sons of Israel, and the people were greatly depressed.⁴⁰ So they arose early in the morning, and went up into the top of the mountain, saying, - We are here - therefore will we go up into the place as to which Yahweh hath said that we have sinned.⁴¹ But Moses said, Wherefore is it that, ye, are going beyond the bidding of Yahweh, - since that cannot prosper?⁴² Do not go up, For Yahweh is not in your midst, - Lest ye be smitten down before your enemies.⁴³ For, the Amalekites and the Canaanites, are there before you, So shall ye fall by the sword, - For inasmuch as ye have turned back from following Yahweh, Therefore will Yahweh not be with you.⁴⁴ But they presumptuously ascended into the top of the mountain, - though, neither, the ark of the covenant of Yahweh nor Mosses moved out of the midst of the camp.⁴⁵ So ten the Amalekites and the Canaanites, that dwelt in that mountain, came down, - and smote them and routed them even unto Hormah.