14Then all the congregation raised a loud cry, and the people wept that night.H5712H5375H6963H5414H5971H1058H39152And all the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron. 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!H1121H3478H3885H4872H175H5712H559H3863H4191H776H4714H3863H4191H40573Why is the LORD bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become a prey. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?"H3068H935H776H5307H2719H802H2945H957H2896H7725H47144And they said to one another, "Let us choose a leader and go back to Egypt."H559H376H251H5414H7218H7725H47145Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the people of Israel.H4872H175H5307H6440H6440H6951H5712H1121H34786And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothesH3091H1121H5126H3612H1121H3312H8446H776H7167H8997and said to all the congregation of the people of Israel, "The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land.H559H5712H1121H3478H559H776H5674H8446H3966H3966H2896H7768If the LORD delights in us, he will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land that flows with milk and honey.H3068H2654H935H776H5414H776H2100H2461H17069Only do not rebel against the LORD. And do not fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us. Their protection is removed from them, and the LORD is with us; do not fear them."H4775H3068H3372H5971H776H3899H6738H5493H3068H337210Then all the congregation said to stone them with stones. But the glory of the LORD appeared at the tent of meeting to all the people of Israel.H5712H559H7275H68H3519H3068H7200H168H4150H1121H347811And the LORD said to Moses, "How long will this people despise me? And how long will they not believe in me, in spite of all the signs that I have done among them?H3068H559H4872H5971H5006H3808H539H226H6213H713012I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they."H5221H1698H3423H6213H1419H1471H609913But Moses said to the LORD, "Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for you brought up this people in your might from among them,H4872H559H3068H4714H8085H5927H5971H3581H713014and they will tell the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you, O LORD, are in the midst of this people. For you, O LORD, 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.H559H3427H776H8085H3068H7130H5971H3068H7200H5869H5869H6051H5975H1980H6440H3119H5982H6051H5982H784H391515Now if you kill this people as one man, then the nations who have heard your fame will say,H4191H5971H259H376H1471H8085H8088H559H55916'It is because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to give to them that he has killed them in the wilderness.'H3068H1115H3201H935H5971H776H7650H7819H405717And now, please let the power of the Lord be great as you have promised, saying,H3581H136H1431H834H1696H55918'The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the third and the fourth generation.'H3068H750H639H7227H2617H5375H5771H6588H5352H5352H6485H5771H1H1121H8029H725619Please pardon the iniquity of this people, according to the greatness of your steadfast love, just as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt until now."H5545H5771H5971H1433H2617H5375H5971H4714H200820Then the LORD said, "I have pardoned, according to your word.H3068H559H5545H169721But truly, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD,H199H2416H776H4390H3519H306822none of the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have put me to the test these ten times and have not obeyed my voice,H582H7200H3519H226H6213H4714H4057H5254H853H6235H6471H8085H696323shall see the land that I swore to give to their fathers. And none of those who despised me shall see it.H518H7200H776H7650H1H5006H720024But my servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it.H5650H3612H6118H312H7307H310H4390H935H776H935H2233H342325Now, since the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valleys, turn tomorrow and set out for the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea."H6003H3669H3427H6010H4279H6437H5265H4057H1870H5488H322026And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,H3068H1696H4872H175H55927"How long shall this wicked congregation grumble against me? I have heard the grumblings of the people of Israel, which they grumble against me.H7451H5712H3885H8085H8519H1121H3478H388528Say to them, 'As I live, declares the LORD, what you have said in my hearing I will do to you:H559H3808H2416H5002H3068H1696H241H621329your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and of all your number, listed in the census from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against me,H6297H5307H4057H6485H4557H6242H8141H1121H4605H388530not one shall come into the land where I swore that I would make you dwell, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.H518H935H776H3027H5375H7931H3612H1121H3312H3091H1121H512631But your little ones, who you said would become a prey, I will bring in, and they shall know the land that you have rejected.H2945H559H957H935H3045H776H398832But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.H6297H5307H405733And your children shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years and shall suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness.H1121H7462H4057H705H8141H5375H2184H6297H8552H405734According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, a year for each day, you shall bear your iniquity forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.'H4557H3117H8446H776H705H3117H3117H8141H3117H8141H5375H5771H705H8141H3045H856935I, the LORD, have spoken. Surely this will I do to all this wicked congregation who are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall come to a full end, and there they shall die."H3068H1696H518H3808H6213H2063H7451H5712H3259H4057H8552H419136And the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation grumble against him by bringing up a bad report about the land—H582H4872H7971H8446H776H7725H5712H3885H3885H3318H1681H77637the men who brought up a bad report of the land—died by plague before the LORD.H582H582H3318H7451H1681H776H4191H4046H6440H306838Of those men who went to spy out the land, only Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive.H3091H1121H5126H3612H1121H3312H1992H582H1980H8446H776H242139When Moses told these words to all the people of Israel, the people mourned greatly.H4872H1696H1697H1121H3478H5971H56H396640And they rose early in the morning and went up to the heights of the hill country, saying, "Here we are. We will go up to the place that the LORD has promised, for we have sinned."H7925H1242H5927H7218H2022H559H2009H5927H4725H3068H559H239841But Moses said, "Why now are you transgressing the command of the LORD, when that will not succeed?H4872H559H5674H6310H3068H674342Do not go up, for the Lord is not among you, lest you be struck down before your enemies.H5927H3068H7130H5062H6440H34143For there the Amalekites and the Canaanites are facing you, and you shall fall by the sword. Because you have turned back from following the LORD, the LORD will not be with you."H6003H3669H6440H5307H2719H7725H310H3068H306844But they presumed to go up to the heights of the hill country, although neither the ark of the covenant of the LORD nor Moses departed out of the camp.H6075H5927H2022H7218H727H1285H3068H4872H4185H7130H426445Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country came down and defeated them and pursued them, even to Hormah.H6003H3381H3669H3427H2022H5221H3807H2767