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14And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
²And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!
³And wherefore hath the Lord brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
⁴And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
⁵Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
⁶And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:
⁷And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.
⁸If the Lord delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
⁹Only rebel not ye against the Lord, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the Lord is with us: fear them not.
¹⁰But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the Lord appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.
¹¹And the Lord said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?
¹²I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
¹³And Moses said unto the Lord, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;)
¹⁴And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that thou Lord art among this people, that thou Lord art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.
¹⁵Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
¹⁶Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.
¹⁷And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,
¹⁸The Lord is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
¹⁹Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
²⁰And the Lord said, I have pardoned according to thy word:
²¹But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord.
²²Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
²³Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
²⁴But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.
²⁵(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) Tomorrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
²⁶And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
²⁷How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
²⁸Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the Lord, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
²⁹Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward which have murmured against me.
³⁰Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
³¹But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.
³²But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.
³³And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
³⁴After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.
³⁵I the Lord have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
³⁶And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,
³⁷Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the Lord.
³⁸But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.
³⁹And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.

³⁵Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers.
³⁶Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed the Lord.
³⁷Also the Lord was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither.
³⁸But Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.

¹⁴Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.

¹¹Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
¹²Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.

²⁰Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
²¹For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
²²Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
²³And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graff them in again.