1 A nd all the congregation cried out with a loud voice, and wept that night.

And all the company lifteth up and give forth their voice, and the people weep during that night;

2 A ll the Israelites grumbled and deplored their situation, accusing Moses and Aaron, to whom the whole congregation said, Would that we had died in Egypt! Or that we had died in this wilderness!

and all the sons of Israel murmur against Moses, and against Aaron, and all the company say unto them, `O that we had died in the land of Egypt, or in this wilderness, O that we had died!

3 W hy does the Lord bring us to this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and little ones will be a prey. Is it not better for us to return to Egypt?

and why is Jehovah bringing us in unto this land to fall by the sword? our wives and our infants are become a prey; is it not good for us to turn back to Egypt?'

4 A nd they said one to another, Let us choose a captain and return to Egypt.

And they say one unto another, `Let us appoint a head, and turn back to Egypt.'

5 T hen Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of Israelites.

And Moses falleth -- Aaron also -- on their faces, before all the assembly of the company of the sons of Israel.

6 A nd Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among the scouts who had searched the land, rent their clothes,

And Joshua son of Nun, and Caleb son of Jephunneh, of those spying the land, have rent their garments,

7 A nd they said to all the company of Israelites, The land through which we passed as scouts is an exceedingly good land.

and they speak unto all the company of the sons of Israel, saying, `The land into which we have passed over to spy it, a very very good land;

8 I f the Lord delights in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

if Jehovah hath delighted in us, then He hath brought us in unto this land, and hath given it to us, a land which is flowing with milk and honey;

9 O nly do not rebel against the Lord, neither fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us. Their defense and the shadow is removed from over them, but the Lord is with us. Fear them not.

only, against Jehovah rebel not ye: and ye, fear not ye the people of the land, for our bread they; their defence hath turned aside from off them, and Jehovah with us; fear them not.'

10 B ut all the congregation said to stone with stones. But the glory of the Lord appeared at the Tent of Meeting before all the Israelites.

And all the company say to stone them with stones, and the honour of Jehovah hath appeared in the tent of meeting unto all the sons of Israel.

11 A nd the Lord said to Moses, How long will this people provoke (spurn, despise) Me? And how long will it be before they believe Me, for all the signs which I have performed among them?

And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Until when doth this people despise Me? and until when do they not believe in Me, for all the signs which I have done in its midst?

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

I smite it with pestilence, and dispossess it, and make thee become a nation greater and mightier than it.'

13 B ut Moses said to the Lord, Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for You brought up this people in Your might from among them.

And Moses saith unto Jehovah, `Then have the Egyptians heard! for Thou hast brought up with Thy power this people out of their midst,

14 A nd they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that You, Lord, are in the midst of this people, that You, Lord, are seen face to face, and that Your cloud stands over them, and that You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.

and they have said unto the inhabitant of this land, they have heard that Thou, Jehovah, in the midst of this people, that eye to eye Thou art seen -- O Jehovah, and Thy cloud is standing over them, -- and in a pillar of cloud Thou art going before them by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.

15 N ow if You kill all this people as one man, then the nations that have heard Your fame will say,

`And Thou hast put to death this people as one man, and the nations who have heard Thy fame have spoken, saying,

16 B ecause the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which He swore to give to them, therefore He has slain them in the wilderness.

From Jehovah's want of ability to bring in this people unto the land which He hath sworn to them -- He doth slaughter them in the wilderness.

17 A nd now, I pray You, let the power of my Lord be great, as You have promised, saying,

`And now, let, I pray Thee, the power of my Lord be great, as Thou hast spoken, saying:

18 T he Lord is long-suffering and slow to anger, and abundant in mercy and loving-kindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and fourth generation.

Jehovah slow to anger, and of great kindness; bearing away iniquity and transgression, and not entirely acquitting, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, on a third, and on a fourth; --

19 P ardon, I pray You, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of Your mercy and loving-kindness, just as You have forgiven from Egypt until now.

forgive, I pray Thee, the iniquity of this people, according to the greatness of Thy kindness, and as Thou hast borne with this people from Egypt, even until now.'

20 A nd the Lord said, I have pardoned according to your word.

And Jehovah saith, `I have forgiven, according to thy word;

21 B ut truly as I live and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord,

and yet, I live -- and it is filled -- the whole earth -- the honour of Jehovah;

22 B ecause all those men who have seen My glory and My signs which I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tested and proved Me these ten times and have not heeded My voice,

for all the men who are seeing My honour, and My signs, which I have done in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and try Me these ten times, and have not hearkened to My voice --

23 S urely they shall not see the land which I swore to give to their fathers; nor shall any who provoked (spurned, despised) Me see it.

they see not the land which I have sworn to their fathers, yea, none of those despising Me see it;

24 B ut 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.

and My servant Caleb, because there hath been another spirit with him, and he is fully after Me -- I have brought him in unto the land whither he hath entered, and his seed doth possess it.

25 N ow because the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valley, tomorrow turn and go into the wilderness by way of the Red Sea.

`And the Amalekite and the Canaanite are dwelling in the valley; to-morrow turn ye and journey for yourselves into the wilderness -- the way of the Red Sea.'

26 A nd the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, and unto Aaron, saying,

27 H ow long will this evil congregation murmur against Me? I have heard the complaints the Israelites murmur against Me.

`Until when hath this evil company that which they are murmuring against Me? the murmurings of the sons of Israel, which they are murmuring against Me, I have heard;

28 T ell them, As I live, says the Lord, what you have said in My hearing I will do to you:

say unto them, I live -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- if, as ye have spoken in Mine ears -- so I do not to you;

29 Y our dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness—of all who were numbered of you, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against Me,

in this wilderness do your carcases fall, even all your numbered ones, to all your number, from a son of twenty years and upward, who have murmured against Me;

30 S urely none shall come into the land in which I swore to make you dwell, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

ye -- ye come not in unto the land which I have lifted up My hand to cause you to tabernacle in it, except Caleb son of Jephunneh, and Joshua son of Nun.

31 B ut your little ones whom you said would be a prey, them will I bring in and they shall know the land which you have despised and rejected.

`As to your infants -- of whom ye have said, A spoil they are become -- I have even brought them in, and they have known the land which ye have kicked against;

32 B ut as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.

as to you -- your carcases do fall in this wilderness,

33 A nd your children shall be wanderers and shepherds in the wilderness for forty years and shall suffer for your whoredoms (your infidelity to your espoused God), until your corpses are consumed in the wilderness.

and your sons are evil in the wilderness forty years, and have borne your whoredoms till your carcases are consumed in the wilderness;

34 A fter the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for each day a year shall you bear and suffer for your iniquities, even for forty years, and you shall know My displeasure.

by the number of the days which ye spied the land, forty days, -- a day for a year, a day for a year -- ye do bear your iniquities, forty years, and ye have known my breaking off;

35 I the Lord have spoken; surely this will I do to all this evil congregation who is gathered together against Me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and here they shall die.

I Jehovah, I have spoken; if I do not this to all this evil company who are meeting against me; -- in this wilderness they are consumed, and there they die.'

36 A nd the men whom Moses sent to search the land, who returned and made all the congregation grumble and complain against him by bringing back a slanderous report of the land,

And the men whom Moses hath sent to spy the land, and they turn back and cause all the company to murmur against him, by bringing out an evil account concerning the land,

37 E ven those men who brought the evil report of the land died by a plague before the Lord.

even the men bringing out an evil account of the land die by the plague before Jehovah;

38 B ut Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among the men who went to search the land, lived still.

and Joshua son of Nun, and Caleb son of Jephunneh, have lived of those men who go to spy out the land.

39 M oses told words to all the Israelites, and mourned greatly.

And Moses speaketh these words unto all the sons of Israel, and the people mourn exceedingly,

40 A nd they rose early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, Behold, we are here, and we intend to go up to the place which the Lord has promised, for we have sinned.

and they rise early in the morning, and go up unto the top of the mountain, saying, `Here we, and we have come up unto the place which Jehovah hath spoken of, for we have sinned.'

41 B ut Moses said, Why now do you transgress the command of the Lord, since it will not succeed?

And Moses saith, `Why this? -- ye are transgressing the command of Jehovah, and it doth not prosper;

42 G o not up, for the Lord is not among you, that you be not struck down before your enemies.

go not up, for Jehovah is not in your midst, and ye are not smitten before your enemies;

43 F or the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you shall fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from following after the Lord, therefore the Lord will not be with you.

for the Amalekite and the Canaanite there before you, and ye have fallen by the sword, because that ye have turned back from after Jehovah, and Jehovah is not with you.'

44 B ut they presumed to go up to the heights of the hill country; however, neither the ark of the covenant of the Lord nor Moses departed out of the camp.

And they presume to go up unto the top of the mountain, and the ark of the covenant of Jehovah and Moses have not departed out of the midst of the camp.

45 T hen the Amalekites came down and the Canaanites who dwelt in that hill country and smote the Israelites and beat them back, even as far as Hormah.

And the Amalekite and the Canaanite who are dwelling in that mountain come down and smite them, and beat them down -- unto Hormah.