1 Wherefore the whole multitude crying wept that night.
2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying:
3 Would God that we had died in Egypt and would God we may die in this vast wilderness, and that the Lord may not bring us into this land, lest we fall by the sword, and our wives and children be led away captives. Is it not better to return into Egypt?
4 And they said one to another: Let us appoint a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
5 And when Moses and Aaron heard this, they fell down flat upon the ground before the multitude of the children of Israel.
6 But Josue the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephone, who themselves also had viewed the land, rent their garments,
7 And said to all the multitude of the children of Israel: The land which we have gone round is very good:
8 If the Lord be favourable, he will bring us into it, and give us a land flowing with milk and honey.
9 Be not rebellious against the Lord: and fear ye not the people of this land, for we are able to eat them up as bread. All aid is gone from them: the Lord is with us, fear ye not.
10 And when all the multitude cried out, and would have stoned them, the glory of the Lord appeared over the tabernacle of the covenant to all the children of Israel.
11 And the Lord said to Moses: How long will this people detract me? how long will they not believe me for all the signs that I have wrought before them?
12 I will strike them therefore with pestilence, and will consume them: but thee I will make a ruler over a great nation, and a mightier than this is.
13 And Moses said to the Lord: That the Egyptians, from the midst of whom thou hast brought forth this people,
14 And the inhabitants of this land, (who have heard that thou, O Lord, art among this people, and art seen face to face, and thy cloud protecteth them, and thou goest before them in a pillar of a cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night,)
15 May hear that thou hast killed so great a multitude as it were one man and may say:
16 He could not bring the people into the land for which he had sworn, therefore did he kill them in the wilderness.
17 Let their the strength of the Lord be magnified, as thou hast sworn, saying:
18 The Lord is patient and full of mercy, taking away iniquity and wickedness, and leaving no man clear, who visitest the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
19 Forgive, I beseech thee, the sins of this people, according to the greatness of thy mercy, as thou hast been merciful to them from their going out of Egypt unto this place.
20 And the Lord said: I have forgiven according to thy word.
21 As I live: and the whole earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord.
22 But yet all the men that have seen my majesty, and the signs that I have done in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now ten times, and have not obeyed my voice,
23 Shall not see the land for which I aware to their fathers, neither shall any one of them that hath detracted me behold it.
24 My servant Caleb, who being full of another spirit hath followed me, I will bring into this land which he hath gone round: and his seed shall possess it.
25 For the Amalecite and the Chanaanite dwell in the valleys. To morrow remove the camp, and return into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.
26 And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:
27 How long doth this wicked multitude murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel.
28 Say therefore to them: As I live, saith the Lord: According as you have spoken in my hearing, so will I do to you.
29 fin the wilderness shall your carcasses lie. All you that were numbered from twenty years old and upward, and have murmured against me,
30 Shall not enter into the land, over which I lifted up my bend to make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephone, and Josue the son of Nun.
31 But your children, of whom you said, that they should be a prey to the enemies, will I bring in: that they may see the land which you have despised.
32 Your carcasses shall lie in the wilderness.
33 Your children shall wander in the desert forty years, and shall bear your fornication, until the carcasses of their fathers be consumed ill the desert,
34 According to the number of the forty days, wherein you viewed the land: year shall be counted for a day. And forty years you shall receive your iniquities, and shall know my revenge:
35 For as I have spoken, so will I do to all this wicked multitude, that hath risen up together against me: in this wilderness shall it faint away and die.
36 Therefore all the men, whom Moses had sent to view the land, and who at their return had made the whole multitude to murmur against him, speaking ill of the land that it was naught,
37 Died and were struck in the sight of the Lord.
38 But Josue .the son of Nun. and Caleb the son of Jephone lived, of all them that had gone to view the land.
39 And Moses spoke all these words to all the children of Israel, and the people mourned exceedingly.
40 And behold rising up very early in the morning, they went up to the top of the mountain, and said: We are ready to go up to the place, of which the Lord hath spoken: for we have sinned.
41 And Moses said to them: Why transgress you the word of the Lord, which shall not succeed prosperously with you?
42 Go not up, for the Lord is not with you: lest you fall before your enemies.
43 The Amalecite and the Chanaanite are before you, and by their sword you shall fall, because you would not consent to the Lord, neither will the Lord be with you.
44 But they being blinded went up to the top of the mountain. But the ark of the testament of the Lord and Moses departed not from the camp.
45 And the Amalecite came down, and the Chanaanite that dwelt in the mountain: and smiting and slaying them pursued them as far as Horma.
Versículos relacionados com Numbers, 14:
Numbers 14 is a chapter that reports the rebellion of the children of Israel against God after receiving the report of the spies that were sent to the Promised Land. They refuse to enter Earth and question the leadership of Moses and God. As a result, God threatens to destroy the people, but Moses intercede for them and God decides to forgive them, but with consequences. Below are four verses related to the topics covered in numbers 14.
Deuteronomy 1:21: "Here is the Lord, thy God, has put before you the earth; go up and take possession of it, as the Lord said to you, God of your parents; do not fear, nor scare you." This verse is an exhortation of Moses to the people to have the courage and take possession of the promised land. This can be related to the refusal of the children of Israel to enter Earth in numbers 14.
Exodus 34:6-7: "And by passing the Lord in the face of his face, he cried, Lord, Lord God, compassionate, clement, and abundant in benignity and truth; who keeps kindness in thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression, transgression. and sin; which to the guilty is not innocent, who visits the iniquity of parents about their children and children of their children until the third and fourth generation. " This verse talks about the compassionate and merciful nature of God, but also mentions the visit of parents' iniquity about their children. This can be related to the consequences that God threatens to impose on the people because of their rebellion in numbers 14.
Psalm 106:13-14: "Early on, however, they forgot their wonderful works; they did not await their advice; but in the desert, they were carried away by the greed, and tried God in the wilderness." This verse mentions the people's tendency to forget the wonders God had made for them and to try it in the desert. This can be related to the rebellion of the children of Israel in numbers 14.
Isaiah 43:18-19: "Do not remember past things, nor do you consider the ancient. Behold, I do something new, right now will come out; wilderness. " This verse talks about God doing something new and unexpected, placing a path in the desert and rivers in the wilderness. This can be related to God's forgiveness to the people in numbers 14 and the possibility of a new chance for them.
Hebrews 3:12-13: "See, brothers, that there is never a bad and unfaithful heart, to depart from the living God. Before, exhort each other every day during the time when it is called Today, so that none of you hardens the mistake of sin. " This verse speaks of the importance of exhorting each other not to move away from God and fall into sin. It can be related to the story of Numbers 14, in which the children of Israel rebelled against God and hardened in His sin.
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