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Numbers 14 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

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The People Rebel

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Then all the congregation [fn]raised their voices and cried out, and the people wept [fn]that night.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:2 - And all the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron; and the entire congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or even if we had died in this wilderness!
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:3 - “So why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become plunder! Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:4 - So they said to one another, “Let’s appoint a leader and return to Egypt!”
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Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces in the presence of all the assembly of the congregation of the sons of Israel.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:6 - And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, of those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:7 - and they spoke to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, saying, “The land which we passed through to spy out is an exceedingly good land.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:8 - “If the LORD is pleased with us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us—a land which flows with milk and honey.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:9 - “Only do not rebel against the LORD; and do not fear the people of the land, for they will be our [fn]prey. Their [fn]protection is gone from them, and the LORD is with us; do not fear them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:10 - But all the congregation said to stone them with stones. Then the glory of the LORD appeared in the tent of meeting to all the sons of Israel.

Moses Pleads for the People

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And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people be disrespectful to Me? And how long will they not [fn]believe in Me, despite all the signs that I have performed in their midst?

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:12 - “I will strike them with [fn]plague and dispossess them, and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they.”
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But Moses said to the LORD, “Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your strength You brought this people up from their midst,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:14 - and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that You, LORD, are in the midst of this people, because You, LORD, are seen eye to eye, while 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:15 - “Now if You put this people to death [fn]all at once, then the nations who have heard of Your fame will [fn]say,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:16 - ‘Since the LORD could not bring this people into the land which He promised them by oath, He slaughtered them in the wilderness.’
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:17 - “So now, please, let the power of the Lord be great, just as You have declared, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:18 - ‘The LORD is slow to anger and abundant in mercy, forgiving wrongdoing and violation of His Law; but He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, inflicting the [fn]punishment of the fathers on the children [fn]to the third and the fourth generations.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:19 - “Please forgive the guilt of this people in accordance with the greatness of Your mercy, just as You also have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.”

The LORD Pardons and Rebukes

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So the LORD said, “I have forgiven them in accordance with your word;

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:21 - however, as I live, [fn]all the earth will be filled with the glory of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:22 - “Certainly all the people who have seen My glory and My signs which I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have put Me to the test these ten times and have not listened to My voice,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:23 - shall by no means see the land which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who were disrespectful to Me see it.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:24 - “But as for My servant Caleb, because he has had a different spirit and has followed Me fully, I will bring him into the land which he [fn]entered, and his [fn]descendants shall take possession of it.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:25 - “Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites live in the valleys; turn tomorrow and set out for the wilderness by the way of the [fn]Red Sea.”
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The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron again, saying,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:27 - “How long shall I put up with this evil congregation who are grumbling against Me? I have heard the complaints of the sons of Israel which they are [fn]voicing against Me.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:28 - “Say to them, ‘As I live,’ declares the LORD, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:29 - your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness, all your [fn]numbered men according to your complete number from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against Me.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:30 - ‘By no means will you come into the land where I [fn]swore to settle you, except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:31 - ‘Your children, however, whom you said would become plunder—I will bring them in, and they will know the land which you have rejected.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:32 - ‘But as for you, your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:33 - ‘Also, your sons will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will [fn]suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your bodies perish in the wilderness.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:34 - ‘In accordance with the number of days that you spied out the land, forty days, for every day you shall suffer the punishment for your [fn]guilt a year, that is, forty years, and you will know My opposition.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:35 - ‘I, the LORD, have spoken, I certainly will do this to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. They shall be worn out in this wilderness, and there they shall die.’”
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As for the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, and who returned and led all the congregation to grumble against him by bringing a bad report about the land,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:37 - those men who brought the bad report of the land also died by a plague in the presence of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:38 - But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive out of those men who went to spy out the land.

Israel Repulsed

(Deu 1:41–45 )
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Now when Moses spoke these words to all the sons of Israel, the people mourned greatly.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:40 - In the morning, however, they got up early and went up to the [fn]ridge of the hill country, saying, “Here we are; and we will go up to the place which the LORD has [fn]promised, for [fn]we have sinned.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:41 - But Moses said, “Why then are you violating the [fn]command of the LORD, when doing so will not succeed?
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:42 - “Do not go up, for the LORD is not among you, [fn]to prevent you from being defeated [fn]by your enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:43 - “For the Amalekites and the Canaanites will be there [fn]to confront you, and you will fall by the sword, since you have turned back from following the LORD. And the LORD will not be with you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:44 - But they foolishly dared to go up to the [fn]ridge of the hill country; neither the ark of the covenant of the LORD nor Moses left the camp.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:45 - Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country came down, and struck them and scattered them as far as Hormah.
NASB20 Footnotes
Lit raised and gave their voice
Lit in that
Lit food
Lit shadow
Or trust in
Lit the plague
Lit as one man
Lit say, saying
I.e., punishment for the wrongdoing
Lit on
Lit and all
Lit entered there
Lit seed
Lit Sea of Reeds
Lit complaining
Lit mustered
Lit raised My hand
Lit bear
Or wrongdoings
Or top of the mountain
Lit said
I.e., by lacking faith to go
Lit mouth
Lit so that you are not
Lit before
Lit before you
Or top of the mountain
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