Verse 17
Numbers 14:17
Bible in Basic English
17
So now, may my prayer come before you, and let the power of the Lord be great, as you said:
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/עַתָּ֕ה יִגְדַּל נָ֖א כֹּ֣חַ אֲדֹנָ֑/י כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֥ר דִּבַּ֖רְתָּ לֵ/אמֹֽר
English Translation
And now, may the strength of my Lord increase as you have spoken.
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Chapter 14 Context
1
Then all the people gave load cries of grief, and all that night they gave themselves up to weeping.
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And all the children of Israel, crying out against Moses and Aaron, said, If only we had come to our...
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Why is the Lord taking us into this land to come to our death by the sword? Our wives and our little...
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And they said to one another, Let us make a captain over us, and go back to Egypt.
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Then Moses and Aaron went down on their faces before the meeting of the people.
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And Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, two of those who had been to see the la...
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Said to all the children of Israel, This land which we went through to see is a very good land.
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And if the Lord has delight in us, he will take us into this land and give it to us, a land flowing...
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Only, do not go against the Lord or go in fear of the people of the land, for they will be our food;...
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10
But all the people said they were to be stoned. Then the glory of the Lord was seen in the Tent of m...
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11
And the Lord said to Moses, How long will this people have no respect for me? how long will they be...
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12
I will send disease on them for their destruction, and take away their heritage, and I will make of...
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And Moses said to the Lord, Then it will come to the ears of the Egyptians; for by your power you to...
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14
And they will give the news to the people of this land: they have had word that you, Lord, are prese...
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15
Now if you put to death all this people as one man, then the nations who have had word of your glory...
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Because the Lord was not able to take this people into the land which he made an oath to give them,...
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So now, may my prayer come before you, and let the power of the Lord be great, as you said:
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The Lord is slow to wrath and great in mercy, overlooking wrongdoing and evil, and will not let wron...
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May the sin of this people have forgiveness, in the measure of your great mercy, as you have had mer...
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And the Lord said, I have had mercy, as you say:
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But truly, as I am living, and as all the earth will be full of the glory of the Lord;
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Because all these men, having seen my glory and the signs which I have done in Egypt and in the wast...
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They will not see the land about which I made an oath to their fathers; not one of these by whom I h...
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But my servant Caleb, because he had a different spirit in him, and has been true to me with all his...
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Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites are in the valley; tomorrow, turning round, go into the waste...
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Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
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How long am I to put up with this evil people and their outcries against me? The words which they sa...
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Say to them, By my life, says the Lord, as certainly as your words have come to my ears, so certainl...
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Your dead bodies will be stretched out in this waste land; and of all your number, all those of twen...
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Not one will come into the land which I gave my word you would have for your resting-place, but only...
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And your little ones, whom you said would come into strange hands, I will take in, and they will see...
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But as for you, your dead bodies will be stretched in this waste land.
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And your children will be wanderers in the waste land for forty years, undergoing punishment for you...
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And as you went through the land viewing it for forty days, so for forty years, a year for every day...
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I the Lord have said it, and this I will certainly do to all this evil people who have come together...
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And the men whom Moses sent to see the land, and who, by the bad account they gave of the land, were...
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Those same men who said evil of the land, came to their death by disease before the Lord.
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But Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, of those who went to see the land, were...
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And when Moses put these words before the children of Israel, the people were full of grief.
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And early in the morning they got up and went to the top of the mountain, saying, We are here and we...
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And Moses said, Why are you now acting against the Lord's order, seeing that no good will come of it...
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Go not up, for the Lord is not with you, and you will be overcome by those who are fighting against...
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For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you will be put to death by their sw...
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But they gave no attention to his words and went to the top of the mountain, though Moses and the ar...
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Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites who were living in the hill-country, and overcame...
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