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The People Rebel
Then the whole community began weeping aloud, and they cried all night.
Then the whole community began weeping aloud, and they cried all night.
The People Rebel
And the whole assembly lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
And the whole assembly lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
Their voices rose in a great chorus of protest against Moses and Aaron. “If only we had died in Egypt, or even here in the wilderness!” they complained.
And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron; and the whole assembly said to them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or in this wilderness would that we had died!
“Why is the LORD taking us to this country only to have us die in battle? Our wives and our little ones will be carried off as plunder! Wouldn’t it be better for us to return to Egypt?”
And why is Jehovah bringing us to this land that we may fall by the sword, that our wives and our little ones may become a prey? Is it not better for us to return to Egypt?
Then they plotted among themselves, “Let’s choose a new leader and go back to Egypt!”
And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return to Egypt.
Then Moses and Aaron fell face down on the ground before the whole community of Israel.
Then Moses and Aaron fell upon their faces before the whole congregation of the assembly of the children of Israel.
Two of the men who had explored the land, Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, tore their clothing.
And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, of them that searched out the land, rent their garments.
They said to all the people of Israel, “The land we traveled through and explored is a wonderful land!
And they spoke to the whole assembly of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it out, is a very, very good land.
And if the LORD is pleased with us, he will bring us safely into that land and give it to us. It is a rich land flowing with milk and honey.
If Jehovah delight in us, he will bring us into this land, and give it us, a land that flows with milk and honey;
Do not rebel against the LORD, and don’t be afraid of the people of the land. They are only helpless prey to us! They have no protection, but the LORD is with us! Don’t be afraid of them!”
only rebel not against Jehovah; and fear not the people of the land; for they shall be our food. Their defence is departed from them, and Jehovah is with us: fear them not.
And the whole assembly said that they should be stoned with stones. And the glory of Jehovah appeared in the tent of meeting to all the children of Israel.
And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will these people treat me with contempt? Will they never believe me, even after all the miraculous signs I have done among them?
And Jehovah said to Moses, How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe me, for all the signs which I have done among them?
I will disown them and destroy them with a plague. Then I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they are!”
I will smite them with the pestilence, and destroy them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.
Moses Intercedes for the People
But Moses objected. “What will the Egyptians think when they hear about it?” he asked the LORD. “They know full well the power you displayed in rescuing your people from Egypt.
Moses Intercedes for the People
And Moses said to Jehovah, Then the Egyptians will hear it; for in thy might thou broughtest up this people from the midst of them;
And Moses said to Jehovah, Then the Egyptians will hear it; for in thy might thou broughtest up this people from the midst of them;
Now if you destroy them, the Egyptians will send a report to the inhabitants of this land, who have already heard that you live among your people. They know, LORD, that you have appeared to your people face to face and that your pillar of cloud hovers over them. They know that you go before them in the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night.
and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land, [who] have heard that thou, Jehovah, art in the midst of this people, that thou, Jehovah, lettest thyself be seen eye to eye, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night;
Now if you slaughter all these people with a single blow, the nations that have heard of your fame will say,
if thou now slayest this people as one man, then the nations that have heard thy fame will speak, saying,
‘The LORD was not able to bring them into the land he swore to give them, so he killed them in the wilderness.’
Because Jehovah was not able to bring this people into the land that he had sworn unto them, he has therefore slain them in the wilderness.
“Please, Lord, prove that your power is as great as you have claimed. For you said,
And now, I beseech thee, let the power of the Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,
‘The LORD is slow to anger and filled with unfailing love, forgiving every kind of sin and rebellion. But he does not excuse the guilty. He lays the sins of the parents upon their children; the entire family is affected — even children in the third and fourth generations.’
Jehovah is slow to anger, and abundant in goodness, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but by no means clearing [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and fourth [generation].
In keeping with your magnificent, unfailing love, please pardon the sins of this people, just as you have forgiven them ever since they left Egypt.”
Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of thy loving-kindness, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
Then the LORD said, “I will pardon them as you have requested.
God's Forgiveness and Judgment
And Jehovah said, I have pardoned according to thy word.
And Jehovah said, I have pardoned according to thy word.
But as surely as I live, and as surely as the earth is filled with the LORD’s glory,
But as surely as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of Jehovah!
not one of these people will ever enter that land. They have all seen my glorious presence and the miraculous signs I performed both in Egypt and in the wilderness, but again and again they have tested me by refusing to listen to my voice.
for all those 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 hearkened to my voice,
They will never even see the land I swore to give their ancestors. None of those who have treated me with contempt will ever see it.
shall in no wise see the land which I did swear unto their fathers: none of them that despised me shall see it.
But my servant Caleb has a different attitude than the others have. He has remained loyal to me, so I will bring him into the land he explored. His descendants will possess their full share of that land.
But my servant Caleb, because he hath another spirit in him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he came; and his seed shall possess it.
(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valley.) To-morrow turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness, on the way to the Red sea.
The LORD Punishes the Israelites
Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
“How long must I put up with this wicked community and its complaints about me? Yes, I have heard the complaints the Israelites are making against me.
How long [shall I bear] with this evil assembly, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
Now tell them this: ‘As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you the very things I heard you say.
Say unto them, As surely as I live, saith Jehovah, if I do not do unto you as ye have spoken in mine ears!
You will all drop dead in this wilderness! Because you complained against me, every one of you who is twenty years old or older and was included in the registration will die.
In this wilderness shall your carcases fall; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number from twenty years old and upwards, who have murmured against me,
You will not enter and occupy the land I swore to give you. The only exceptions will be Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
shall in no wise come into the land, concerning which I have lifted up my hand to make you dwell in it; save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
“‘You said your children would be carried off as plunder. Well, I will bring them safely into the land, and they will enjoy what you have despised.
But your little ones, of whom ye said they should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land that ye have despised.
But as for you, you will drop dead in this wilderness.
And as to you, your carcases shall fall in this wilderness.
And your children will be like shepherds, wandering in the wilderness for forty years. In this way, they will pay for your faithlessness, until the last of you lies dead in the wilderness.
And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
“‘Because your men explored the land for forty days, you must wander in the wilderness for forty years — a year for each day, suffering the consequences of your sins. Then you will discover what it is like to have me for an enemy.’
After the number of the days in which ye have searched out the land, forty days, each day for a year shall ye bear your iniquities forty years, and ye shall know mine estrangement [from you].
I, the LORD, have spoken! I will certainly do these things to every member of the community who has conspired against me. They will be destroyed here in this wilderness, and here they will die!”
I Jehovah have spoken; I will surely do it unto all this evil assembly which have gathered together against me! in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
The ten men Moses had sent to explore the land — the ones who incited rebellion against the LORD with their bad report —
The Plague on the Ten Spies
And the men whom Moses had sent to search out the land, who returned, and made the whole assembly to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report upon the land,
And the men whom Moses had sent to search out the land, who returned, and made the whole assembly to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report upon the land,
were struck dead with a plague before the LORD.
even those men who had brought up an evil report upon the land, died by a plague before Jehovah.
Of the twelve who had explored the land, only Joshua and Caleb remained alive.
But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, lived still of the men that had gone to search out the land.
When Moses reported the LORD’s words to all the Israelites, the people were filled with grief.
And Moses told all these sayings to all the children of Israel; then the people mourned greatly.
Then they got up early the next morning and went to the top of the range of hills. “Let’s go,” they said. “We realize that we have sinned, but now we are ready to enter the land the LORD has promised us.”
Defeat by Amalekites and Canaanites
And they rose up early in the morning, and went up to the hill-top, saying, Here are we, and we will go up to the place of which Jehovah has spoken; for we have sinned.
And they rose up early in the morning, and went up to the hill-top, saying, Here are we, and we will go up to the place of which Jehovah has spoken; for we have sinned.
But Moses said, “Why are you now disobeying the LORD’s orders to return to the wilderness? It won’t work.
And Moses said, Why now do ye transgress the commandment of Jehovah? but it shall not prosper!
Do not go up into the land now. You will only be crushed by your enemies because the LORD is not with you.
Go not up, for Jehovah is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies;
When you face the Amalekites and Canaanites in battle, you will be slaughtered. The LORD will abandon you because you have abandoned the LORD.”
for the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword; for as ye have turned away from Jehovah, Jehovah will not be with you.
But the people defiantly pushed ahead toward the hill country, even though neither Moses nor the Ark of the LORD’s Covenant left the camp.
Yet they presumed to go up to the hill-top; but the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, and Moses, did not depart from the midst of the camp.