¹⁰ But the whole assembly talked about stoning^(A) them. Then the glory of the Lord^(B) appeared at the tent of meeting to all the Israelites. ¹¹ The Lord said to Moses, “How long will these people treat me with contempt?^(C) How long will they refuse to believe in me,^(D) in spite of all the signs^(E) I have performed among them? ¹² I will strike them down with a plague^(F) and destroy them, but I will make you into a nation^(G) greater and stronger than they.”^(H)

¹³ Moses said to the Lord, “Then the Egyptians will hear about it! By your power you brought these people up from among them.^{(I) 14} And they will tell the inhabitants of this land about it. They have already heard^(J) that you, Lord, are with these people^(K) and that you, Lord, have been seen face to face,^(L) that your cloud stays over them,^(M) and that you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.^{(N) 15} If you put all these people to death, leaving none alive, the nations who have heard this report about you will say, ¹⁶ ‘The Lord was not able to bring these people into the land he promised them on oath,^(O) so he slaughtered them in the wilderness.’^(P)

¹⁷ “Now may the Lord’s strength be displayed, just as you have declared: ¹⁸ ‘The Lord is slow to anger, abounding in love and forgiving sin and rebellion.^(Q) Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.’^{(R) 19} In accordance with your great love, forgive^(S) the sin of these people,^(T) just as you have pardoned them from the time they left Egypt until now.”^(U)

²⁰ The Lord replied, “I have forgiven them,^(V) as you asked. ²¹ Nevertheless, as surely as I live^(W) and as surely as the glory of the Lord^(X) fills the whole earth,^{(Y) 22} not one of those who saw my glory and the signs^(Z) I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness but who disobeyed me and tested me ten times^(AA)— ²³ not one of them will ever see the land I promised on oath^(AB) to their ancestors. No one who has treated me with contempt^(AC) will ever see it.^{(AD) 24} But because my servant Caleb^(AE) has a different spirit and follows me wholeheartedly,^(AF) I will bring him into the land he went to, and his descendants will inherit it.^(AG)

Warnings From Israel’s History

10 For I do not want you to be ignorant^(A) of the fact, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud^(B) and that they all passed through the sea.^{(C) 2} They were all baptized into^(D) Moses in the cloud and in the sea. ³ They all ate the same spiritual food^{(E) 4} and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock^(F) that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ. ⁵ Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.^(G)

⁶ Now these things occurred as examples^(H) to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did. ⁷ Do not be idolaters,^(I) as some of them were; as it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.”^{[a](J) 8} We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did—and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.^{(K) 9} We should not test Christ,^[b](L) as some of them did—and were killed by snakes.^{(M) 10} And do not grumble, as some of them did^(N)—and were killed^(O) by the destroying angel.^(P)

¹¹ These things happened to them as examples^(Q) and were written down as warnings for us,^(R) on whom the culmination of the ages has come.^{(S) 12} So, if you think you are standing firm,^(T) be careful that you don’t fall! ¹³ No temptation^[c] has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful;^(U) he will not let you be tempted^[d] beyond what you can bear.^(V) But when you are tempted,^[e] he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.