1And all the congregation lifted up their voice and cried. And the people wept that night. 2And all the sons of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. And the whole congregation said to them, Oh that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or, Oh that we had died in the wilderness! 3And why has the LORD brought us into this land to fall by the sword, so that our wives and our sons should be a prey? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt? 4And they said to one another, Let us make a leader, and let us return to Egypt. 5And Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the sons of Israel. 6And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, of those that searched the land, tore their clothes. 7And they spoke to all the company of the [sons] of Israel saying, The land which we passed through to search is an exceedingly good land. 8If the LORD delights in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land which flows with milk and honey. 9Only do not rebel against the LORD, neither fear the people of the land. For they [are] bread for us. Their protection has moved from them, and the LORD [is] with us. Do not fear them. 10But all the congregation said to stone them with stones. And the glory of Jehovah appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the sons of Israel. 11And Jehovah said to 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 shown among them? 12I will strike them with the pestilence and will disinherit them, and will make of you a greater nation and mightier than they. 13And Moses said to Jehovah, Then the Egyptians will hear, for You have brought up this people in Your might from among them. 14And they will say to the inhabitant of this land. They have heard that You, LORD, [are] among this people, who is seen eye to eye. You [are] Jehovah, 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. 15And will you kill this people as one man? Then the nations who have heard Your fame will speak, saying, 16Because Jehovah was not able to bring this people into the land which He swore to them, therefore He has slain them in the wilderness. 17And now, I beseech You, let the power of my Lord be great, according as You have spoken, saying, 18The LORD [is] long-suffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and fourth [generation]. 19I beseech You, pardon the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of Your mercy, and as You have forgiven this people from Egypt even until now. 20And Jehovah said, I have pardoned according to your word. 21But truly, [as] I live, all the earth shall be filled [with] the glory of the LORD. 22Because all those men who 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 listened to My voice, 23surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked Me see it. 24But My servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed Me fully, I will bring him into the land into which he went. And his seed shall possess it. 25(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites lived in the valley.) Tomorrow turn and go into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea. 26And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 27How long [shall I bear with] this evil congregation, which murmurs against Me? I have heard the murmurings of the sons of Israel which they murmur against Me. 28Say to them, [As] I live, says the LORD, as you have spoken in My ears, so I will do to you. 29Your 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, who have murmured against Me, 30you shall certainly not come into the land which I swore to make you live in, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. 31But your little ones, which you said should be a prey, I will bring them in and they shall know the land which you have despised. 32But [as for] you, your bodies shall fall in this wilderness. 33And your sons shall feed in the wilderness forty years and bear your fornications, until your dead bodies have wasted in the wilderness. 34According to the number of the days in which you searched the land-- forty days-- each day for a year you shall bear your iniquities, forty years; and you shall know my alienation. 35I the LORD have spoken; I will surely do it to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. They shall be destroyed in this wilderness, and there they shall die. 36And 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 upon the land, 37even those men that brought up the evil report upon the land died by the plague before the LORD. 38But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, of the men that went to spy out the land, lived. 39And Moses told these sayings to all the sons of Israel. And the people mourned greatly. 40And they rose up early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we are here, and will go up to the place which the LORD has promised, for we have sinned. 41And Moses said, Why do you now go beyond the command of the LORD, since it shall not be blessed? 42Do not go up, for the LORD [is] not among you. And shall you not be beaten before your enemies? 43For the Amalekites and the Canaanites [are] there before you, and you shall fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you. 44But they presumed to go up to the hill top. But the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, and Moses, did not leave the camp. 45And the Amalekites and the Canaanites who were living in that mountain came down and struck them, and beat them down, to Hormah.