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Numbers - ch 14 v 1 - 20
- Then all the people gave load cries of grief, and all that night they gave themselves up to weeping.
- 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!
- 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?
- And they said to one another, Let us make a captain over us, and go back to Egypt.
- Then Moses and Aaron went down on their faces before the meeting of the people.
- 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,
- Said to all the children of Israel, This land which we went through to see is a very good land.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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;
- 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.
- Now if you put to death all this people as one man, then the nations who have had word of your glory will say,
- 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.
- So now, may my prayer come before you, and let the power of the Lord be great, as you said:
- 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.
- 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.
- And the Lord said, I have had mercy, as you say:
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