Numbers 14 The Israelites Want to Return to Egypt

Numbers 14
The Israelites Want to Return to Egypt

1 And all the congregation arose, and lifted up their voice: and the people wept that night.
2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron; and all the congregation said unto him, Ah! if we had died in the land of Egypt! or, oh if we had died in the desert!
3 And why does the LORD bring us into this land, that we may fall by the sword, and that our wives and children may be a prey? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?
4 And they said one to another, Let us raise up a captain, and let us return to Egypt.
5 And Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the congregation of the children of Israel.
6 And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, they that searched the land, tore their clothes.
7 And they spake unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, The land by which we have come to spy is a very good land.
8 If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us: a land flowing with milk and honey.
9 Only be ye not rebellious against Jehovah, and fear not the people of the land, for they are our bread: their beloved is departed from them, and Jehovah is with us; do not fear them.
10 And all the congregation said, that they should stone them with stones: but the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation unto all the children of Israel.
11 And the LORD said unto Moses, How long shall this people provoke me? and how long will they not believe me for all the signs that I have done among them?
12 I will smite him with pestilence, and reject him: and I will make thee a greater and mightier people than this.
13 And Moses said unto the LORD, Thus shall the Egyptians hear; for with thy strength didst thou bring up this people among them.
14 And they shall tell the inhabitants of this land, that they have heard that thou, O Lord, art in the midst of this people, that they appear face to face, O Lord, to appear unto them, that thy cloud is upon them, and that thou goest before them in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.
15 And if you slay this people as one man, then the people, who have heard your fame, will speak, saying,
16 For the Lord could not put this people in the land which he had sworn to them; therefore he slew them in the wilderness.
17 Now therefore, I beseech thee, let the strength of my Lord be great; as you have spoken, saying,
18 The LORD is longsuffering and full of mercy, and he forgives iniquity and transgression, which the guilty person does not hold innocent, and visit the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation.
19 Therefore forgive the iniquity of this people, according to the greatness of thy mercy: and as thou also hast forgiven this people from the land of Egypt unto this time.
20 And the LORD said, I have forgiven thee according to thy word.
21 But as surely as I live, the glory of the Lord shall fill the whole earth.
22 And all the men who saw my glory and my signs, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and tempted me these ten times, and they obeyed not my voice.
23 They shall not see the land which I have sworn unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoke me see it.
24 But to my servant Caleb, because there is another spirit in him, and he hath followed me, I will bring him into the land where he went in, and his seed shall inherit it.
25 And the Amalekites, and the Canaanites, hailstorm in the valley: turn ye to morrow, and walk into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.