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And all the congregation lifted up and put◦ forth their voice , and the people wept in that◦ night .
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And all the sons of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron ; and all the 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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And why has Jehovah brought us to▵ this land , to fall by the sword , that our wives and our infants should be for plunder? Were it not better for us to return to▫ Egypt ?
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And they said , a man◦ to▵ his brother , Let us put◦ someone as head , and let us return to Egypt .
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And Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the sons of Israel .
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And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who explored the land , rent their garments ;
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and they said to▵ all the congregation of the sons of Israel , saying, The land , which we passed ··through to explore it, is a very, very good land .
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If Jehovah delight in us , then He will bring us to▵ this land , and give it to us , it◦ is a land which flows with milk and honey .
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Only▵ revolt not against◦ Jehovah , and fear you◦ not the people of the land ; for they◦ are bread for us ; their shadow is removed from upon them, and Jehovah is with◦ us : fear them not.
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But all the congregation said to stone ▵ them with stones . And the glory of Jehovah appeared in the Tabernacle of the congregation ◦ to▵ all the sons of Israel .
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And Jehovah said to▵ Moses , Until what occasion will this people disdain Me? And until what occasion will they not believe in Me, in all the signs which I have done among them?
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I will smite them with the pestilence , and dispossess them, and will make thee into◦ a greater nation and more numerous than they.
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And Moses said to▵ Jehovah , And the Egyptians shall hear of it, for Thou broughtest··up this people with Thy power from among them,
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and they will say it to▵ those who dwell in this land ; for they have heard that Thou◦, Jehovah art among this people, that Thou◦, Jehovah art seen eye to eye , and that Thy cloud stands over them, and that Thou◦ goest ◦ before them, in a pillar of a cloud by··day, and in a pillar of fire by night .
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And if Thou shalt··put ··to··death this people as one man ◦, then the nations that have heard the fame of Thee will say , saying,
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Because Jehovah was· not▵ ·able to bring this people to▵ the land which He promised to them, therefore He has slaughtered them in the wilderness .
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And now, I pray◦ Thee, let the power of my Lord be··great, as◦ Thou hast spoken , saying,
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Jehovah is slow◦ to anger , and of much mercy , bearing iniquity and transgression ; but in not rendering··innocent, He does not render··innocent, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the sons, on the third and on the fourth generation*.
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Pardon, I pray◦ Thee, the iniquity of this people according··to the greatness of Thy mercy , and as◦ Thou hast borne for this people from Egypt until now◦.
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And Jehovah said , I have pardoned according··to thy word ;
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nevertheless, as I◦ live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of Jehovah ;
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for all the men◦ who have seen My glory, and My signs , which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness , and have tempted Me these ten times◦, and have not obeyed My voice ,
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they shall not▫ see the land which I promised to their fathers , neither shall any of them that disdained Me see it;
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but My servant Caleb , because▵ there was another spirit with him, and he has··filled after Me*, then him will I bring into▵ the land into which he came ; and his seed shall possess it.
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(And the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley .) Tomorrow turn ◦ yourselves, and journey into the wilderness by the way of the Suph sea*.
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And Jehovah spoke to▵ Moses and to▵ Aaron , saying,
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How▵ long will I be for this evil congregation , they◦ who murmur against Me? I have heard the murmurings of the sons of Israel , which they◦ murmur against Me.
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Say to▵ them, As I◦ live, says ◦ Jehovah , as◦ you have spoken in My ears, Will I not do so to you?
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Your corpses shall fall in this wilderness ; and all who were numbered◦ of you, according··to all your number, from a son of twenty years and upward, who have murmured against Me,
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you◦ shall not▫ come into▵ the land , concerning which I lifted my hand to cause you to inhabit her, but◦ Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.
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But your infants, whom you said should be a plunder, them will I bring ··in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.
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But you◦, your corpses, shall fall in this wilderness .
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And your sons shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years and bear your harlotries, until your corpses be entirely consumed in the wilderness .
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By the number of the days that you explored the land , forty days , a day to a year, a day to a year, you shall bear your iniquities , forty years, and you shall know My disallowing.
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I◦, Jehovah , have spoken ; Surely I will do this to all this evil congregation who have congregated against Me; in this wilderness they shall be entirely consumed, and there they shall die .
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And the men◦ whom Moses sent to explore the land , and who returned and made all the congregation to murmur against Him by bringing··out an evil··report against the land ,
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even▵ the men◦ who brought··out the evil report◦ of the land , died in being··struck before Jehovah .
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But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, they◦ who were of the men◦ who went◦ to explore the land , lived.
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And Moses spoke these words to▵ all the sons of Israel ; and the people mourned exceedingly.
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And they got··up··early in the morning , and went··up to▵ the head of the mountain , saying, Behold, we be here, and will go··up to▵ the place which Jehovah has said ; for we have sinned.
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And Moses said , Why this, that you◦ transgress◦ the mouth of Jehovah ? But it◦ shall not prosper .
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Go· not ·up, for Jehovah is not◦ among you; and you will not be struck down before your enemies .
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For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you shall fall by the sword ; for you have turned ··back from following after Jehovah , and Jehovah will not be with you.
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But they sought··the··summit to go··up to▵ the head of the mountain ; but the ark of the covenant of Jehovah , and Moses , departed not from among the camp .
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And the Amalekite came··down and the Canaanite who dwelt in that◦ mountain and smote them and beat· them ·down , even··to Hormah.