Verse 1 All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. Verse 2 All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said to them, "Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this wilderness! Verse 3 Why does the Lord bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: wouldn't it be better for us to return into Egypt?" Verse 4 They said one to another, "Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt." Verse 5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel. Verse 6 Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes: Verse 7 and they spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, "The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceeding good land. Verse 8 If 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. Verse 9 Only do not rebel against the Lord, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defense is removed from over them, and the Lord is with us. Do not fear them." Verse 10 But all the congregation threatened to stone them with stones. The glory of the Lord appeared in the Tent of Meeting to all the children of Israel. Verse 11 The Lord said to Moses, "How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them? Verse 12 I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they." Verse 13 Moses said to the Lord, "Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them; Verse 14 and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you Lord are in the midst of this people; for you Lord 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. Verse 15 Now if you killed this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying, Verse 16 'Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.' Verse 17 Now please let the power of the Lord be great, according as you have spoken, saying, Verse 18 'The Lord is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.' Verse 19 Please pardon the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your loving kindness, and according as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now." Verse 20 The Lord said, "I have pardoned according to your word: Verse 21 but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord; Verse 22 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; Verse 23 surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who despised me see it: Verse 24 but my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him will I bring into the land into which he went; and his seed shall possess it. Verse 25 Now the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley: tomorrow turn, and go into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea." Verse 26 The Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, Verse 27 "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. Verse 28 Tell them, 'As I live, says the Lord, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you: Verse 29 your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me, Verse 30 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. Verse 31 But your little ones, that you said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected. Verse 32 But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness. Verse 33 Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness. Verse 34 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.' Verse 35 I, the Lord, have spoken, surely this will I do to all this evil congregation, who are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die." Verse 36 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, Verse 37 even those men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before the Lord. Verse 38 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, remained alive of those men who went to spy out the land. Verse 39 Moses told these words to all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly. Verse 40 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 the Lord has promised: for we have sinned." Verse 41 Moses said, "Why now do you disobey the commandment of the Lord, since it shall not prosper? Verse 42 Do not go up, for the Lord isn't among you; that you not be struck down before your enemies. Verse 43 For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and you shall fall by the sword: because you are turned back from following the Lord, therefore the Lord will not be with you." Verse 44 But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and Moses, did not depart out of the camp. Verse 45 Then the Amalekite came down, and the Canaanite who lived in that mountain, and struck them and beat them down, even to Hormah.