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Themes in Numbers 14
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Themes in Numbers 14

Numbers 14:1

Then all the community {lifted up their voices}, and the people wept during that night.

Numbers 14:2

And all the {Israelites} grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and all the community said to them, "If only we had died in the land of Egypt or in this desert!

Numbers 14:3

Why did Yahweh bring us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little children will become plunder; would it not be better for us to return [to] Egypt?"

Numbers 14:4

{They said to each other}, "Let us appoint a leader, and we will return [to] Egypt."

Numbers 14:5

Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces {before} the assembly of the community of the {Israelites}.

Numbers 14:6

Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, from the explorers [of] the land, tore their garments.

Numbers 14:7

And they said to all the community of the {Israelites}, "The land that we went through to explore [is] an {exceptionally good land}.

Numbers 14:8

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.

Numbers 14:9

Only do not rebel against Yahweh, and you will not fear the people of the land, because they will be our food. {Their protection} has been turned from them; Yahweh [is] with us. You should not fear them."

Numbers 14:10

And all the community said to stone them with stones, but the glory of Yahweh appeared in the tent of assembly among the {Israelites}.

Numbers 14:11

And Yahweh said to Moses, "How long until this people will despise me, and how long until they will not believe in me, [and] in all the signs that I have done in their midst?

Numbers 14:12

I will strike them with disease, and I will dispossess them; I will make you into a greater and stronger nation than them."

Numbers 14:13

And Moses said to Yahweh, "Then the Egyptians will hear that you brought up this people from their midst in your power,

Numbers 14:14

and they will {tell it} to the inhabitants of this land. They heard that you, Yahweh, [are] in the midst of this people, that you are seen eye to eye, and your cloud [is] standing over them, and in a column of cloud you go before them by day and in a column of fire [at] night.

Numbers 14:15

But if you destroy this people {all at once}, the nations that will have heard your message will say,

Numbers 14:16

'Yahweh was unable to bring this people in the land that he swore by an oath, and he slaughtered them in the desert.'

Numbers 14:17

But now, please, let the power of my Lord be great, just has you spoke,

Numbers 14:18

'Yahweh [is] {slow to anger} and great of loyal love, {forgiving} sin and rebellion; but surely he leaves nothing unpunished, visiting the sin of the fathers on the sons to the third and fourth generations.'

Numbers 14:19

Please forgive the sin of this people according to the greatness of your loyal love, just as you {forgave} this people, from Egypt until now."

Numbers 14:20

Yahweh said, "I have forgiven [them] according to your word;

Numbers 14:21

but as I [am] alive, the glory of Yahweh will fill all the earth.

Numbers 14:22

But because all the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the desert yet tested me these ten times and did not listen to my voice,

Numbers 14:23

they will not see the land that I swore by oath to their ancestors, and all those who despised me will not see it.

Numbers 14:24

But my servant Caleb, because another spirit was with him, he remained true after me, and I will bring him into the land that {he entered}, and his offspring will take possession of it.

Numbers 14:25

And the Amalekites and the Canaanites live in the valleys; tomorrow turn and set out [for] the desert [by] way of the {Red Sea}."

Numbers 14:26

And Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

Numbers 14:27

"How long [will I bear] this evil community who are grumbling against me? I have heard the grumbling of the {Israelites} which {they are making} against me.

Numbers 14:28

Say to them, 'Surely as I live,' {declares} Yahweh, 'just as you spoke {in my hearing}, so I will do to you;

Numbers 14:29

in this desert your corpses will fall, and all your counted ones, according to all your number, from {twenty years old} and above who grumbled against me.

Numbers 14:30

You [yourselves] will not come into the land that {I swore by oath} to make you to dwell in it, but Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

Numbers 14:31

But your little children, whom you said would be plunder, I will bring them, and they will know the land that you rejected.

Numbers 14:32

But for you, all your corpses will fall in this desert.

Numbers 14:33

And your children will be shepherds in the desert forty years, and you will bear your unfaithfulness until {all your corpses have fallen} in the desert.

Numbers 14:34

According to the number of the days that you explored the land, forty days, {a day for each year}, you will bear your sins forty years, and you will know my opposition.'

Numbers 14:35

I, Yahweh, have spoken; I will surely do this to all this evil community who has banded together against me. In this desert they will come to an end, and there they will die."

Numbers 14:36

As for the men whom Moses sent to explore the land, who returned and made the community grumble against him by spreading a report over the land,

Numbers 14:37

the men who spread the evil report of the land died by the plague {before Yahweh}.

Numbers 14:38

But Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh lived from [among] the men who went to explore the land.

Numbers 14:39

And Moses spoke words to all the {Israelites}, and the people mourned greatly.

Numbers 14:40

They rose early in the morning and went to the top of the mount, saying, "Here we are. We will go up to the place that Yahweh said, because we have sinned."

Numbers 14:41

But Moses said, "Why [are] you going against the command of Yahweh? It will not succeed.

Numbers 14:42

You should not go up because Yahweh is not in your midst; do not let yourselves be defeated in the presence of your enemies,

Numbers 14:43

because the Amalekites and the Canaanites [are] there {before you}, and you will fall by the sword; because you have turned [back] from Yahweh, and Yahweh will not be with you."

Numbers 14:44

But they dared to go to the top of the mountain, and the ark of the covenant of Yahweh and Moses did not depart from the midst of the camp.

Numbers 14:45

So the Amalekites and the Canaanites who were living on the mountain descended, and they beat them down, up to Hormah.
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