Verse 3
Numbers 14:3
Geneva Bible
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Wherefore nowe hath the Lord brought vs into this lande to fall vpon the sworde? our wiues, and our children shall be a pray: were it not better for vs to returne into Egypt?
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/לָ/מָ֣ה יְ֠הוָה מֵבִ֨יא אֹתָ֜/נוּ אֶל הָ/אָ֤רֶץ הַ/זֹּאת֙ לִ/נְפֹּ֣ל בַּ/חֶ֔רֶב נָשֵׁ֥י/נוּ וְ/טַפֵּ֖/נוּ יִהְי֣וּ לָ/בַ֑ז הֲ/ל֧וֹא ט֦וֹב לָ֖/נוּ שׁ֥וּב מִצְרָֽיְמָ/ה
English Translation
And why is the LORD bringing us to this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and our children will become a prey. Is it not better for us to return to Egypt?
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Chapter 14 Context
1
Then all ye Congregation lifted vp their voice, and cryed: and the people wept that night,
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And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron: and the whole assemblie said vnto t...
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Wherefore nowe hath the Lord brought vs into this lande to fall vpon the sworde? our wiues, and our...
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And they said one to another, Let vs make a Captaine and returne into Egypt.
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Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assemblie of the Congregation of the childre...
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And Ioshua the sonne of Nun, and Caleb the sonne of Iephunneh two of them that searched the lande, r...
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And spake vnto all the assemblie of the childre of Israel, saying, The land which we walked through...
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8
If the Lord loue vs, he will bring vs into this land, and giue it vs, which is a land that floweth w...
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9
But rebell not ye against the Lord, neither feare ye the people of the land: for they are but bread...
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10
And all the multitude saide, Stone them with stones: but the glory of the Lord appeared in the Taber...
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11
And the Lord said vnto Moses, How long will this people prouoke me, and howe long will it be, yer th...
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12
I will smite them with the pestilence and destroy them, and will make thee a greater nation and migh...
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13
But Moses saide vnto the Lord, When the Egyptians shall heare it, (for thou broughtest this people b...
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14
Then they shall say to the inhabitants of this land, (for they haue heard that thou, Lord, art among...
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15
That thou wilt kill this people as one man: so the heathen which haue heard the fame of thee, shall...
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16
Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the lande, which he sware vnto them, therefo...
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17
And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,
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18
The Lord is slowe to anger, and of great mercie, and forgiuing iniquitie, and sinne, but not making...
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19
Be mercifull, I beseech thee, vnto the iniquitie of this people, according to thy great mercie, and...
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20
And the Lord said, I haue forgiuen it, according to thy request.
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21
Notwithstanding, as I liue, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord.
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For all those men which haue seene my glory, and my miracles which I did in Egypt, and in the wilder...
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23
Certainely they shall not see the lande, whereof I sware vnto their fathers: neither shall any that...
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24
But my seruant Caleb, because he had another spirite, and hath followed me stil, euen him will I bri...
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25
Nowe the Amalekites and the Canaanites remaine in the valley: wherefore turne backe to morowe, and g...
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26
After, the Lord spake vnto Moses and to Aaron, saying,
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How long shall I suffer this wicked multitude to murmure against me? I haue heard the murmurings of...
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Tell them, As I liue (saith the Lord) I wil surely do vnto you, euen as ye haue spoken in mine eares...
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Your carkeises shall fall in this wildernes, and all you that were counted through all your nombers,...
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Ye shall not doubtles come into the land, for the which I lifted vp mine hande, to make you dwell th...
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But your children, (which ye said shoulde be a pray) them will I bring in, and they shall knowe the...
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32
But euen your carkeises shall fall in this wildernes,
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And your children shall wander in the wildernesse, fourtie yeeres, and shall beare your whoredomes,...
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34
After the number of the dayes, in the which ye searched out the lande, euen fourtie dayes, euery day...
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I the Lord haue said, Certainely I will doe so to all this wicked company, that are gathered togethe...
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And the men which Moses had sent to search the land (which, when they came againe, made all the peop...
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Euen those men that did bring vp that vile slander vpon the land, shall die by a plague before the L...
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38
But Ioshua the sonne of Nun, and Caleb the sonne of Iephunneh, of those men that went to search the...
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39
Then Moses tolde these sayings vnto all the children of Israel, and the people sorowed greatly.
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40
And they rose vp earely in the morning, and gate them vp into the toppe of the mountaine, saying, Lo...
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41
But Moses said, Wherefore transgresse yee thus the commandement of the Lord? it will not so come wel...
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42
Goe not vp (for the Lord is not among you) lest ye be ouerthrowe before your enemies.
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43
For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sworde: for in...
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44
Yet they presumed obstinately to goe vp to the top of the mountaine: but the Arke of the couenant of...
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45
Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites, which dwelt in that mountaine, came downe and smote them, an...
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