1 GLT And all the congregation lifted up and gave their voice, and the people wept in that night. BSB BSB: Then the whole congregation lifted up their voices and cried out, and that night the people wept.
2 GLT And all the sons of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. And all the congregation said to them,“If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness! BSB BSB: All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!
3 GLT And why is Yahweh bringing us to this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and our children will be for plunder. Is it not good for us to return to Egypt?” BSB BSB: Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”
4 GLT And they said, a man to his brother,“Let us set a head, and let us return to Egypt.” BSB BSB: So they said to one another, “Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”
5 GLT And Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before the face of all the assembly of the congregation of the sons of Israel, BSB BSB: Then Moses and Aaron fell facedown before the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel.
6 GLT and Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, from the ones who explored the land, tore their garments, BSB BSB: Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes
7 GLT and they spoke to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, saying,“The land in which we passed through to explore it is a very exceedingly good land. BSB BSB: and said to the whole congregation of Israel, “The land we passed through and explored is an exceedingly good land.
8 GLT If Yahweh delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and he will give it to us, a land that is flowing with milk and honey. BSB BSB: If the LORD delights in us, He will bring us into this land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and He will give it to us.
9 GLT Only you must not rebel against Yahweh, and you must not fear the people of the land, for they are our food. He has turned their shadow from over them, and Yahweh is with us. You must not fear them!” BSB BSB: Only do not rebel against the LORD, and do not be afraid of the people of the land, for they will be like bread for us. Their protection has been removed, and the LORD is with us. Do not be afraid of them!”
10 GLT And all the congregation said to stone them with stones. But the glory of Yahweh appeared in the tent of meeting to all the sons of Israel. BSB BSB: But the whole congregation threatened to stone Joshua and Caleb. Then the glory of the LORD appeared to all the Israelites at the Tent of Meeting.
11 GLT And Yahweh said to Moses,“Until when will this people spurn me? And until when will they not trust in me, despite all the signs that I have done in the midst of them? BSB BSB: And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people treat Me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in Me, despite all the signs I have performed among them?
12 GLT I will strike him down with the plague, and I will disinherit him, and I will make you into a nation greater and more numerous than them.” BSB BSB: I will strike them with a plague and destroy them—and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they are.”
13 GLT And Moses said to Yahweh,“And the Egyptians have heard that you brought this people up with your power from the midst of him. BSB BSB: But Moses said to the LORD, “The Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your strength You brought this people from among them.
14 GLT And they have spoken to those dwelling in this land. They have heard that you, Yahweh, are in the midst of this people; that you, Yahweh, have been seen eye by eye, and your cloud is standing over them, and in a column of cloud you are going before their face by day and in a column of fire at night. BSB BSB: And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have already heard that You, O LORD, are in the midst of this people, that You, O LORD, have been seen face to face, that Your cloud stands over them, and that You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.
15 GLT If you kill this people like one man, then the nations will say that they heard a report of you, saying, BSB BSB: If You kill this people as one man, the nations who have heard of Your fame will say,
16 GLT ‘Because Yahweh was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to them, so he slaughtered them in the wilderness.’ BSB BSB: ‘Because the LORD was unable to bring this people into the land He swore to give them, He has slaughtered them in the wilderness.’
17 GLT And now, please let the power of my Lord be great, just as you have spoken, saying, BSB BSB: So now I pray, may the power of my Lord be magnified, just as You have declared:
18 GLT ‘Yahweh is long of nostrils and abundant of covenant faithfulness, lifting up iniquity and transgression. But surely he will not leave unpunished, appointing the iniquity of fathers on sons, on thirds, and on fourths.’ BSB BSB: ‘The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving iniquity and transgression. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers upon their children to the third and fourth generation.’
19 GLT Please forgive this people of the iniquity according to the greatness of your covenant faithfulness, and just as you have lifted up this people, from Egypt and to here.” BSB BSB: Pardon, I pray, the iniquity of this people, in keeping with the greatness of Your loving devotion, just as You have forgiven them ever since they left Egypt.”
20 GLT And Yahweh said,“I have forgiven according to your word. BSB BSB: “I have pardoned them as you requested,” the LORD replied.
21 GLT But truly, I live, and all the earth will be filled with the glory of Yahweh. BSB BSB: “Yet as surely as I live and as surely as the whole earth is filled with the glory of the LORD,
22 GLT For all the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and they tested me this ten times and have not listened to my voice, BSB BSB: not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times—
23 GLT if they see the land that I have sworn to their fathers… and all those who spurn me will not see it. BSB BSB: not one will ever see the land that I swore to give their fathers. None of those who have treated Me with contempt will see it.
24 GLT But my servant Caleb, because another spirit is with him, and he was fully after me, I will bring him into the land that he will come to there, and his seed will inherit it. BSB BSB: But because My servant Caleb has a different spirit and has followed Me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he has entered, and his descendants will inherit it.
25 GLT (And the Amalekite and the Canaanite were dwelling in the valley.) Tomorrow turn and set out for yourselves to the wilderness, the way of the Sea of Reeds.” BSB BSB: Now since the Amalekites and Canaanites are living in the valleys, turn back tomorrow and head for the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea.”
26 GLT And Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, BSB BSB: Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
27 GLT “Until when must I listen to this evil congregation, they who are murmuring against me the murmurings of the sons of Israel, they who are murmuring against me? BSB BSB: “How long will this wicked congregation grumble against Me? I have heard the complaints that the Israelites are making against Me.
28 GLT Say to them,‘{ As} I live,’– the declaration of Yahweh–‘surely just as you have spoken in my ears, so I will do to you: BSB BSB: So tell them: As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you exactly as I heard you say.
29 GLT In this wilderness your corpses will fall and all your counted ones according to all your number, from a son of 20 years and upward, who have murmured against me. BSB BSB: Your bodies will fall in this wilderness—all who were numbered in the census, everyone twenty years of age or older—because you have grumbled against Me.
30 GLT If you enter into the land that I have lifted up my hand to make you dwell in… except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun, BSB BSB: Surely none of you will enter the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
31 GLT and your children who you said would be for plunder; and I will bring them, and they will know the land, it that you have rejected. BSB BSB: But I will bring your children, whom you said would become plunder, into the land you have rejected—and they will enjoy it.
32 GLT And you, your corpses will fall in this wilderness, BSB BSB: As for you, however, your bodies will fall in this wilderness.
33 GLT and your sons will be those who herd in the wilderness 40 years, and they will carry your fornications until the finishing of your corpses in the wilderness. BSB BSB: Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.
34 GLT By the number of the days that you explored the land, 40 days, a day for the year, a day for the year, you will carry your iniquities 40 years. And you will know my opposition. BSB BSB: In keeping with the forty days you spied out the land, you shall bear your guilt forty years—a year for each day—and you will experience My alienation.
35 GLT I, Yahweh, have spoken. Surely I will do this to all this evil congregation, the ones who have congregated themselves against me. In this wilderness they will finish, and there they will die.’” BSB BSB: I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will surely do these things to this entire wicked congregation, which has conspired against Me. They will meet their end in the wilderness, and there they will die.”
36 GLT And the men whom Moses had sent to explore the land and had returned and caused all the congregation to murmur against him by causing an evil report against the land to go out, BSB BSB: So the men Moses had sent to spy out the land, who had returned and made the whole congregation grumble against him by bringing out a bad report about the land—
37 GLT even the men who had caused to go out the evil report of the evil land, died by the plague before the face of Yahweh. BSB BSB: those men who had brought out the bad report about the land—were struck down by a plague before the LORD.
38 GLT But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh lived from those men, the ones who went to explore the land. BSB BSB: Of those men who had gone to spy out the land, only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh remained alive.
39 GLT And Moses spoke these words to all the sons of Israel, and the people mourned exceedingly, BSB BSB: And when Moses relayed these words to all the Israelites, the people mourned bitterly.
40 GLT and they rose early in the morning and went up to the head of the mountain, saying,“Here we are, and we will go up to the place that Yahweh has said, for we have sinned.” BSB BSB: Early the next morning they got up and went up toward the ridge of the hill country. “We have indeed sinned,” they said, “but we will go to the place the LORD has promised.”
41 GLT And Moses said,“Why this— are you passing over the mouth of Yahweh? And it will not succeed. BSB BSB: But Moses said, “Why are you transgressing the commandment of the LORD? This will not succeed!
42 GLT You must not go up, because Yahweh is not in the midst of you, that you not be struck down before the face of your enemies. BSB BSB: Do not go up, lest you be struck down by your enemies, because the LORD is not among you.
43 GLT For the Amalekite and the Canaanite are there before your face, and you will fall by the sword, for you have turned from after Yahweh, and therefore Yahweh will not be with you.” BSB BSB: For there the Amalekites and Canaanites will face you, and you will fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from the LORD, He will not be with you.”
44 GLT And they presumed to go up to the head of the mountain, but the box of the covenant of Yahweh and Moses did not depart from the midst of the camp. BSB BSB: But they dared to go up to the ridge of the hill country, though neither Moses nor the ark of the covenant of the LORD moved from the camp.
45 GLT And the Amalekite and the Canaanite who dwelled on that mountain, came down. And they smote them and beat them to pieces as far as the Hormah. BSB BSB: Then the Amalekites and Canaanites who lived in that part of the hill country came down, attacked them, and routed them all the way to Hormah.
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