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And all the congregation lifted up their voice and cried; and the people wept all that night. ² And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron; and all the congregation said to them, ³ Would we had died in the land of Egypt! or in this wilderness, would we had died! and why does the Lord bring us into this land to fall in war? our wives and our children shall be for a prey: now then it is better to return into Egypt. ⁴ And they said one to another, Let us make a ruler, and return into Egypt. ⁵ And Moses and Aaron fell upon their face before all the congregation of the children of Israel.

⁶ But Joshua the son of Naue, and Chaleb the son of Jephonne, of the number of them that spied out the land, rent their garments, ⁷ and spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, The land which

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in all my house. ⁸ I will speak to him mouth to mouth apparently, and not in dark speeches; and he has seen the glory of the Lord; and why were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses? ⁹ And the great anger of the Lord was upon them, and he departed. ¹⁰ And the cloud departed from the tabernacle; and, behold, Mariam was leprous, white as snow; and Aaron looked upon Mariam, and, behold, she was leprous. ¹¹ And Aaron said to Moses, I beseech thee, my lord, do not lay sin upon us, for we were ignorant wherein we sinned. ¹² Let her not be as it were like death, as an abortion coming out of his mother's womb, when the disease devours the half of the flesh. ¹³ And Moses cried to the Lord, saying, O God, I beseech thee, heal her. ¹⁴ And the Lord said to Moses, If her father had only spit in her face, ¹would she not be ashamed seven days? let her be set apart seven days without the camp, and afterwards she shall come in.

¹⁵ And Mariam was separated without the camp seven days; and the people moved not forward till Mariam was cleansed.

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And afterwards the people set forth from Aseroth, and encamped in the wilderness of Pharan. ² And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ³ Send for thee men, and let them spy the land of the Chananites, which I give to the sons of Israel for a possession; one man for a tribe, thou shalt send them away according to their families, every one of them a prince.

⁴ And Moses sent them out of the wilderness Pharan by the word of the Lord; all these were the princes of the sons of Israel. ⁵ And these are their names: of the tribe of Ruben, Samuel the son of Zachur. ⁶ Of the tribe of Symeon, Saphat the son of Suri. ⁷ Of the tribe of Judah, Chaleb the son of Jephonne. ⁸ Of the tribe of Issachar, Ilaal the son of Joseph. ⁹ Of the tribe of Ephraim, Ause the son of Naue. ¹⁰ Of the tribe of Benjamin, Phalti the son of Raphu. ¹¹ Of the tribe of Zabulon, Gudiel the son of Sudi. ¹² Of the tribe of Joseph of the sons of Manasse, Gaddi the son of Susi. ¹³ Of the tribe of Dan, Amiel the son of Gamali. ¹⁴ Of the tribe of Aser, Sathur the son of Michael. ¹⁵ Of the tribe of Nephthali, Nabi the son of Sabi. ¹⁶ Of the tribe of Gad, Gudiel the son of Macchi. ¹⁷ These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land; and Moses called Ause the son of Naue; Joshua.

¹⁸ And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Chanaan, and said to them, Go up by this wilderness; and ye shall go up to the mountain, ¹⁹ and ye shall see the land, what it is, and the people that dwells on it, whether it is strong or weak, or whether they are few or many. ²⁰ And what the land is on which they dwell, whether it is good or bad; and what the cities are wherein these dwell, whether they dwell in walled cities or unwalled. ²¹ And what the land is, whether rich or ²poor; whether there are trees in it or no: and ye shall persevere and take of the fruits of the land: and the days were the days of spring, the forerunners of the grape.

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have murmured concerning you. ²⁸ Say to them, As I live, saith the Lord: surely as ye spoke into my ears, so will I do to you. ²⁹ Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all those of you that were reviewed, and those of you that were numbered from twenty years old and upward, all that murmured against me, ³⁰ ye shall not enter into the land for which I stretched out my hand to establish you upon it; except only Chaleb the son of Jephonne, and Joshua the son of Naue. ³¹ And your little ones, who ye said should be a prey, them will I bring into the land; and they shall inherit the land, ³which ye rejected. ³² And your carcases shall fall in this wilderness. ³³ And your sons shall be fed in the wilderness forty years, and they shall bear your fornication until your carcases be consumed in the wilderness. ³⁴ According to the number of the days during which ye spied the land, forty days, a day for a year, ye shall bear your sins forty years, and ye shall know my fierce anger. ³⁵ I the Lord have spoken, Surely will I do thus to this evil congregation ⁴that has risen up together against me: in this wilderness they shall be utterly consumed, and there they shall die.

³⁶ And the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, and who came and murmured against it to the assembly so as to bring out evil words concerning the land,-- ³⁷ the men that spoke evil reports against the land, even died of the plague before the Lord. ³⁸ And Joshua the son of Naue and Chaleb the son of Jephonne still lived of those men that want to spy out the land. ³⁹ And Moses spoke these words to all the children of Israel; and the people mourned exceedingly.

⁴⁰ And they rose early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, Behold we ⁵that are here will go up to the place of which the Lord has spoken, because we have sinned. ⁴¹ And Moses said, Why do ye transgress the word of the Lord? ye shall not prosper. ⁴² Go not up, for the Lord is not with you; so shall ye fall before the face of your enemies. ⁴³ For Amalec and the Chananite are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword; because ye have disobeyed the Lord and turned aside, and the Lord will not be among you. ⁴⁴ And having forced their passage, they went up to the top of the mountain; but the ark of the covenant of the Lord and Moses stirred not out of the camp. ⁴⁵ And Amalec and the Chananite that dwelt in that mountain came down, and routed them, and destroyed them unto Herman; and they returned to the camp.