And all the children of IsraelmurmuredagainstMoses and againstAaron: and the wholecongregationsaiduntothem, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in thiswilderness!
And whereforehath the LORDbrought us untothisland, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our childrenshould be a prey? were it not better for us to returnintoEgypt?
Onlyrebel not ye against the LORD, neitherfear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: theirdefence is departedfromthem, and the LORD is with us: fearthem not.
But all the congregationbadestonethemwithstones. And the glory of the LORDappeared in the tabernacle of the congregationbefore all the children of Israel.
And theywilltell it to the inhabitants of thisland: for theyhaveheardthatthouLORD art amongthispeople, thatthouLORD art seenface to face, and that thy cloudstandethoverthem, and thatthougoestbeforethem, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.
The LORD is longsuffering, and of greatmercy, forgivinginiquity and transgression, and by no meansclearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathersupon the childrenunto the third and fourthgeneration.
Because all those men whichhaveseen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and havetempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
But my servantCaleb, because he had anotherspiritwith him, and hathfollowed me fully, him will I bringinto the landwhereinto he went; and his seedshallpossess it.
Yourcarcasesshallfall in thiswilderness; and all thatwerenumbered of you, according to yourwholenumber, fromtwentyyears old and upward, whichhavemurmuredagainst me,
After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, evenfortydays, each day for a year, shall ye bearyouriniquities, evenfortyyears, and ye shallknow my breach of promise.
I the LORDhavesaid, I willsurely do it unto all thisevilcongregation, that are gatheredtogetheragainst me: in thiswildernesstheyshall be consumed, and theretheyshall die.
And the men, whichMosessent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmuragainst him, by bringing up a slanderupon the land,
And theyrose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the placewhich the LORDhathpromised: for we havesinned.
For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are therebefore you, and ye shallfall by the sword: because ye are turnedawayfrom the LORD, therefore the LORDwill not be with you.