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Numbers 14

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Numbers 14 Bible text

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All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.

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And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.

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All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness!

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And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this wilderness!

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Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be captured or killed! Wouldn’t it be better for us to return into Egypt?”

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And wherefore doth Jehovah bring us unto this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: were it not better for us to return into Egypt?

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They said to one another, “Let’s choose a leader, and let’s return into Egypt.”

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And they said 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 the children of Israel.

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Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.

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Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes.

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And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of them that spied out the land, rent their clothes:

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They spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, “The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land.

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and they spake unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceeding good land.

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If Yahweh delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us: a land which flows with milk and honey.

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If Jehovah delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it unto us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.

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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.”

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Only rebel not against Jehovah, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is removed from over them, and Jehovah is with us: fear them not.

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But all the congregation threatened to stone them with stones.

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But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of Jehovah appeared in the tent of meeting unto all the children of Israel.

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Yahweh said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? How long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?

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And Jehovah said unto Moses, How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have wrought among them?

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I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”

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I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.

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Moses said to Yahweh, “Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them.

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And Moses said unto Jehovah, Then the Egyptians will hear it; for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;

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They will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you Yahweh are among 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.

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and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that thou Jehovah art in the midst of this people; for thou Jehovah art seen face to face, and thy cloud standeth over them, and thou goest before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.

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Now if you killed this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,

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Now if thou shalt kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,

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‘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.’

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Because Jehovah was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.

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Now please let the power of the Lord ” be great, according as you have spoken, saying,

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And now, I pray thee, let the power of the Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,

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‘Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’

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Jehovah is slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.

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Please pardon the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your loving kindness, and just as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.”

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Pardon, I pray thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy lovingkindness, and according as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.

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Yahweh said, “I have pardoned according to your word;

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And Jehovah said, I have pardoned according to thy word:

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but in very deed—as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with Yahweh’s glory—

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but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of Jehovah;

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because all those men who have seen my glory and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;

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because all those men that have seen my glory, and my signs, which I wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;

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surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who despised me see it.

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surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that despised me see it:

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But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him I will bring into the land into which he went. His offspring shall possess 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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Since the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley, tomorrow turn and go into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.”

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Now the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley: to-morrow turn ye, and get you into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.

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Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

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And Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

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“How long shall I bear with this evil congregation that complain against me? I have heard the complaints of the children of Israel, which they complain against me.

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How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, that murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.

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Tell them, ‘As I live, says Yahweh, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so I will do to you.

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Say unto them, As I live, saith Jehovah, surely as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:

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Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were counted of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have complained against me,

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your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, that have murmured against me,

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surely you shall not come into the land concerning which I swore that I would make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

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surely ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware that I would make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

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But I will bring in your little ones that you said should be captured or killed, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.

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But your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have rejected.

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But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.

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But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.

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Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies are consumed in the wilderness.

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And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whoredoms, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.

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After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, you will bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you will know my alienation.’

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After the number of the days in which ye spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my alienation.

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I, Yahweh, have spoken. I will surely do this to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.”

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I, Jehovah, have spoken, surely this will I do 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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The men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation to murmur against him by bringing up an evil report against the land,

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And the men, whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report against the land,

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even those men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Yahweh.

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even those men that did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Jehovah.

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But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive of those men who went to spy out the land.

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But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, remained alive of those men that went to spy out the land.

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Moses told these words to all the children of Israel, and the people mourned greatly.

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And Moses told these words unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.

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They rose up early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, “Behold, we are here, and will go up to the place which Yahweh has promised; for we have sinned.”

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And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up to the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we are here, and will go up unto the place which Jehovah hath promised: for we have sinned.

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Moses said, “Why now do you disobey the commandment of Yahweh, since it shall not prosper?

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And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of Jehovah, seeing it shall not prosper?

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Don’t go up, for Yahweh isn’t among you; that way you won’t be struck down before your enemies.

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Go not up, for Jehovah is not among you; that ye be not smitten down before your enemies.

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For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and you will fall by the sword because you turned back from following Yahweh; therefore Yahweh will not be with you.”

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For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned back from following Jehovah, therefore Jehovah will not be with you.

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But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain. Nevertheless, the ark of Yahweh’s covenant and Moses didn’t depart out of the camp.

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But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.

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Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites who lived in that mountain, and struck them and beat them down even to Hormah.

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Then the Amalekite came down, and the Canaanite who dwelt in that mountain, and smote them and beat them down, even unto Hormah.