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And all the company lifteth up and give forth their voice , and the people weep during that night ;
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and all the sons of Israel murmur against Moses , and against Aaron , and all the company say unto them, `O that we had died in the land of Egypt , or in this wilderness , O that we had died !
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and why is Jehovah bringing us in unto this land to fall by the sword ? our wives and our infants are become a prey; is it not good for us to turn back to Egypt ?'
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And they say one unto another, `Let us appoint a head , and turn back to Egypt .'
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And Moses falleth -- Aaron also -- on their faces , before all the assembly of the company of the sons of Israel .
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And Joshua son of Nun, and Caleb son of Jephunneh, of those spying the land , have rent their garments ,
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and they speak unto all the company of the sons of Israel , saying, `The land into which we have passed over to spy it, [is] a very very good land ;
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if Jehovah hath delighted in us , then He hath brought us in unto this land , and hath given it to us , a land which is flowing with milk and honey ;
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only, against Jehovah rebel not ye: and ye, fear not ye the people of the land , for our bread they [are]; their defence hath turned aside from off them, and Jehovah [is] with us ; fear them not.'
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And all the company say to stone them with stones , and the honour of Jehovah hath appeared in the tent of meeting unto all the sons of Israel .
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And Jehovah saith unto Moses , `Until when doth this people despise Me? and until when do they not believe in Me, for all the signs which I have done in its midst?
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I smite it with pestilence , and dispossess it, and make thee become a nation greater and mightier than it.'
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And Moses saith unto Jehovah , `Then have the Egyptians heard ! for Thou hast brought up with Thy power this people out of their midst,
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and they have said [it] unto the inhabitant of this land , they have heard that Thou, Jehovah , [art] in the midst of this people, that eye to eye Thou art seen -- O Jehovah , and Thy cloud is standing over them, -- and in a pillar of cloud Thou art going before them by day, and in a pillar of fire by night .
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`And Thou hast put to death this people as one man , and the nations who have heard Thy fame have spoken , saying,
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From Jehovah's want of ability to bring in this people unto the land which He hath sworn to them -- He doth slaughter them in the wilderness .
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`And now, let, I pray Thee, the power of my Lord be great, as Thou hast spoken , saying:
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Jehovah [is] slow to anger , and of great kindness ; bearing away iniquity and transgression , and not entirely acquitting, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, on a third [generation], and on a fourth; --
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forgive, I pray Thee, the iniquity of this people, according to the greatness of Thy kindness , and as Thou hast borne with this people from Egypt , even until now.'
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And Jehovah saith , `I have forgiven, according to thy word ;
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and yet, I live -- and it is filled -- the whole earth -- [with] the honour of Jehovah ;
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for all the men who are seeing My honour, and My signs , which I have done in Egypt , and in the wilderness , and try Me these ten times, and have not hearkened to My voice --
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they see not the land which I have sworn to their fathers , yea, none of those despising Me see it;
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and My servant Caleb , because there hath been another spirit with him, and he is fully after Me -- I have brought him in unto the land whither he hath entered , and his seed doth possess it.
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`And the Amalekite and the Canaanite are dwelling in the valley ; to-morrow turn ye and journey for yourselves into the wilderness -- the way of the Red Sea .'
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And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses , and unto Aaron , saying,
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`Until when hath this evil company that which they are murmuring against Me? the murmurings of the sons of Israel , which they are murmuring against Me, I have heard ;
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say unto them, I live -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- if, as ye have spoken in Mine ears -- so I do not to you;
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in this wilderness do your carcases fall , even all your numbered ones, to all your number, from a son of twenty years and upward, who have murmured against Me;
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ye -- ye come not in unto the land which I have lifted up My hand to cause you to tabernacle in it, except Caleb son of Jephunneh, and Joshua son of Nun.
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`As to your infants -- of whom ye have said , A spoil they are become -- I have even brought them in, and they have known the land which ye have kicked against;
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as to you -- your carcases do fall in this wilderness ,
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and your sons are evil in the wilderness forty years, and have borne your whoredoms till your carcases are consumed in the wilderness ;
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by the number of the days [in] which ye spied the land , forty days , -- a day for a year, a day for a year -- ye do bear your iniquities , forty years, and ye have known my breaking off;
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I [am] Jehovah , I have spoken ; if I do not this to all this evil company who are meeting against me; -- in this wilderness they are consumed, and there they die .'
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And the men whom Moses hath sent to spy the land , and they turn back and cause all the company to murmur against him, by bringing out an evil account concerning the land ,
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even the men bringing out an evil account of the land die by the plague before Jehovah ;
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and Joshua son of Nun, and Caleb son of Jephunneh, have lived of those men who go to spy out the land .
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And Moses speaketh these words unto all the sons of Israel , and the people mourn exceedingly,
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and they rise early in the morning , and go up unto the top of the mountain , saying, `Here we [are], and we have come up unto the place which Jehovah hath spoken of, for we have sinned.'
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And Moses saith , `Why [is] this? -- ye are transgressing the command of Jehovah , and it doth not prosper ;
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go not up, for Jehovah is not in your midst, and ye are not smitten before your enemies ;
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for the Amalekite and the Canaanite [are] there before you, and ye have fallen by the sword , because that ye have turned back from after Jehovah , and Jehovah is not with you.'
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And they presume to go up unto the top of the mountain , and the ark of the covenant of Jehovah and Moses have not departed out of the midst of the camp .
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And the Amalekite and the Canaanite who are dwelling in that mountain come down and smite them, and beat them down -- unto Hormah.