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chapter 14
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.
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