Verse 2
Numbers 14:2
World English Bible
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All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness!
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יִּלֹּ֨נוּ֙ עַל מֹשֶׁ֣ה וְ/עַֽל אַהֲרֹ֔ן כֹּ֖ל בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַֽ/יֹּאמְר֨וּ אֲלֵ/הֶ֜ם כָּל הָ/עֵדָ֗ה לוּ מַ֨תְנוּ֙ בְּ/אֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרַ֔יִם א֛וֹ בַּ/מִּדְבָּ֥ר הַ/זֶּ֖ה לוּ מָֽתְנוּ
English Translation
And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and said to them, "If only we had died in the land of Egypt or in this wilderness, if only we had died."
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Chapter 14 Context
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All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
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All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to...
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Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be c...
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They said to one another, “Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.”
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Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children...
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Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore...
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They spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, “The land, which we passed thr...
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If Yahweh delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flow...
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Only don’t rebel against Yahweh, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us. The...
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10
But all the congregation threatened to stone them with stones.
Yahweh’s glory appeared in the Tent o...
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Yahweh said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in m...
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12
I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater a...
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13
Moses said to Yahweh, “Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might...
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14
They will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you Yahweh are among this pe...
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Now if you killed this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will spe...
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‘Because Yahweh was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he...
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Now please let the power of the Lord be great, according as you have spoken, saying,
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‘Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and...
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Please pardon the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your loving kindness, and ju...
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Yahweh said, “I have pardoned according to your word:
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but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with Yahweh’s glory;
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because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilde...
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surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who de...
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But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him I will...
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Since the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley, tomorrow turn, and go into the wilderness...
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Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
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“How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, that murmur against me? I have heard the murmuri...
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Tell them, ‘As I live, says Yahweh, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you.
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Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were counted of you, according to your w...
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surely you shall not come into the land, concerning which I swore that I would make you dwell therei...
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But your little ones, that you said should be captured or killed, them I will bring in, and they sha...
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But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.
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Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, un...
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After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year,...
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I, Yahweh, have spoken. I will surely do this to all this evil congregation, who are gathered togeth...
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The men, whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur...
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even those men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Yahweh.
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But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, remained alive of those men who went to s...
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Moses told these words to all the children of Israel, and the people mourned greatly.
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40
They rose up early in the morning, and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, “Behold, we are h...
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Moses said, “Why now do you disobey the commandment of Yahweh, since it shall not prosper?
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Don’t go up, for Yahweh isn’t among you; that way you won’t be struck down before your enemies.
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For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and you will fall by the sword, because yo...
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But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain. Nevertheless, the ark of Yahweh’s covenant an...
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Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites who lived in that mountain, and struck them and be...
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