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Numbers - ch 14 v 1 - 20
- All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
- All 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!
- Why 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?
- They said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
- Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
- Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes:
- and 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.
- If Yahweh delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey.
- Only 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.
- But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. The glory of Yahweh appeared in the Tent of Meeting to all the children of Israel.
- Yahweh 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?
- I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.
- Moses said to Yahweh, Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them;
- and 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.
- Now if you shall kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,
- Because Yahweh was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.
- Now please let the power of the Lord be great, according as you have spoken, saying,
- Yahweh 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.
- Pardon, Please, 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.
- Yahweh said, I have pardoned according to your word:
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