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And it came to pass that all of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron all the night, and into the next day.
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And the whole congregation said unto themsleves: Would Ha’Elohima that we had died in the land of Egypt! or: Would Ha’Elohim that we had died in this wilderness!
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And: Wherefore hath YHVHa brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? and: Were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
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And thus dis they say one to another: Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
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Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of Israel.
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¶ And it came to pass that Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes;
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And they spake unto all the company of Israel, saying: The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.
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If YHVH delight in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it us, a land which floweth with milk and honey.
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Only rebel not ye against YHVH; neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us; their defense is departed from them, and YHVH is with us; fear them not.
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And after they had said this, behold, all the congregation bade stone them with stones.
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¶ And it came to pass that the Splendor of YHVHa appeared in the Tabernacle of the Congregationb before all of Israel.
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And YHVH said unto Moses: How long will this people provoke me? And how long will it be before they believe me, for all the signs which I have showed among them?
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I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
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And Moses said unto YHVH: Then the Egyptians shall hear it, for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them,
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And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land; for they have heard that thou, O YHVH, art among this people,
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That thou, O YHVH, art seen face to facea, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them by daytime in a pillar of a cloud and in a pillar of fire by night.
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Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying: Because YHVH was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore unto them, therefore, he hath slain them in the wilderness.
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¶ And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lorda be great, according as thy angel hast spokenb, saying: YHVH is long-suffering and of great mercy,
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Forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
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Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people, according unto the greatness of thy mercy and as thou hast forgiven this people from Egypt even until now.
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¶ And YHVH spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying: How long shall I bear with this evil congregation which does murmur against me?
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I have heard the murmurings of Israel which they murmur against me; therefore, say unto them: As truly as I live, saith YHVH, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you;
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Your carcassesa shall fall in this wilderness, and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me.
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Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I swore to make you dwell therein, save Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, the son of Nun.
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But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in; and they shall know the land which ye have despised; but as for you, your carcasses, they shall fall in this wilderness.
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And your children shall wander here in the wilderness for forty yearsa and bear your unfaithfulness until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness.
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After the number of the days in which he searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years; and ye shall know my breacha of promise.
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I, YHVH, have said: I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation that are gathered together against me; in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die!
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And I have pardoned the according to the word of my servant, Moses; but as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the My Glory;
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And because all those mena which have seen my glory and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice, surely they shall not see the land which I swore unto their fathers; neither shall any of them that provoked me see it.
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But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.
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Tomorrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness, following the path along the sea.
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¶ And it came to pass that the men which Moses sent to search the land, who returned and made all the congregation to murmur against him by bringing up a slander upon the land, even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before YHVH.
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But Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.
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And it came to pass that Moses told these sayings unto all of Israel; and the people mourned greatly.
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¶ And it came to pass that a part of the people rose up early in the morning and got them up into the top of the mountain, saying: Lo, we be here and will go up unto the place which YHVH hath promised; for it is ours!
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And Moses said: Wherefore now do ye transgress the mouth of YHVH? YHVH hath said ye shall not go, therefore ye shall not prosper;
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Go not up, for YHVH is not among you, least ye be smitten by your enemies, and ye shall fall by the sword; because ye are turned away from YHVH, therefore, YHVH will not be with you.
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But they presumed to go up unto the hilltop; nevertheless, the ark of the covenant of YHVH and Moses departed not out of the camp.
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Then the Amalekites came down and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill and smote them and discomfited them.