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Numbers 12

    ²And they said, Has the Lord indeed spoken only by Moses? Has He not spoken also by us? And the Lord heard it.

    ³Now the man Moses was very meek (gentle, kind, and humble) or above all the men on the face of the earth.

    ⁴Suddenly the Lord said to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, Come out, you three, to the Tent of Meeting. And the three of them came out.

    ⁵The Lord came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the Tent door and called Aaron and Miriam, and they came forward.

    ⁶And He said, Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you, I the Lord make Myself known to him in a vision and speak to him in a dream.

    ⁷But not so with My servant Moses; he is entrusted and faithful in all My house.^(A)

    ⁸With him I speak mouth to mouth [directly], clearly and not in dark speeches; and he beholds the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against My servant Moses?

    ⁹And the anger of the Lord was kindled against them, and He departed.

    ¹⁰And when the cloud departed from over the Tent, behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow. And Aaron looked at Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous!

    ¹¹And Aaron said to Moses, Oh, my lord, I plead with you, lay not the sin upon us in which we have done foolishly and in which we have sinned.

    ¹²Let her not be as one dead, already half decomposed when he comes out of his mother's womb.

    ¹³And Moses cried to the Lord, saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech You!

    ¹⁴And the Lord said to Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed for seven days? Let her be shut up outside the camp for seven days, and after that let her be brought in again.

    ¹⁵So Miriam was shut up without the camp for seven days, and the people did not journey on until Miriam was brought in again.

    ¹⁶Afterward [they] removed from Hazeroth and encamped in the Wilderness of Paran.

Numbers 13

    ²Send men to explore and scout out [for yourselves] the land of Canaan, which I give to the Israelites. From each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a leader or head among them.

    ³So Moses by the command of the Lord sent scouts from the Wilderness of Paran, all of them men who were heads of the Israelites.

    ⁴These were their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zaccur;

    ⁵Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat son of Hori;

    ⁶Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh;

    ⁷Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal son of Joseph;

    ⁸Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea [that is, Joshua] son of Nun;

    ⁹Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti son of Raphu;

    ¹⁰Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel son of Sodi;

    ¹¹Of the tribe of Joseph, that is, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi son of Susi;

    ¹²Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel son of Gemalli;

    ¹³Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur son of Michael;

    ¹⁴Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi son of Vophsi;

    ¹⁵Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel son of Machi.

    ¹⁶These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to explore and scout out the land. And Moses called Hoshea son of Nun, Joshua.

    ¹⁷Moses sent them to scout out the land of Canaan, and said to them, Get up this way by the South (the Negeb) and go up into the hill country,

    ¹⁸And see what the land is and whether the people who dwell there are strong or weak, few or many,

    ¹⁹And whether the land they live in is good or bad, and whether the cities they dwell in are camps or strongholds,

    ²⁰And what the land is, whether it is fat or lean, whether there is timber on it or not. And be of good courage and bring some of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the first ripe grapes.

    ²¹So they went up and scouted through the land from the Wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath.

    ²²And then went up into the South (the Negeb) and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai [probably three tribes of] the sons of Anak were there. (Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

    ²³And they came to the Valley of Eshcol, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a pole between two [of them]; they brought also some pomegranates and figs.

    ²⁴That place was called the Valley of Eshcol [cluster] because of the cluster which the Israelites cut down there.

    ²⁵And they returned from scouting out the land after forty days.

    ²⁶They came to Moses and Aaron and to all the Israelite congregation in the Wilderness of Paran at Kadesh, and brought them word, and showed them the land's fruit.

    ²⁷They told Moses, We came to the land to which you sent us; surely it flows with milk and honey. This is its fruit.

    ²⁸But the people who dwell there are strong, and the cities are ^[b]fortified and very large; moreover, there we saw the sons of Anak [of great stature and courage].

    ²⁹Amalek dwells in the land of the South (the Negeb); the Hittite, the Jebusite, and the Amorite dwell in the hill country; and the Canaanite dwells by the sea and along by the side of the Jordan [River].

    ³⁰Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once and possess it; we are well able to conquer it.

    ³¹But his fellow scouts said, We are not able to go up against the people [of Canaan], for they are stronger than we are.

    ³²So they brought the Israelites an evil report of the land which they had scouted out, saying, The land through which we went to spy it out is a land that devours its inhabitants. And all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature.

    ³³There we saw the Nephilim [or giants], the sons of Anak, who come from the giants; and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

Numbers 14

    ²All the Israelites grumbled and deplored their situation, accusing Moses and Aaron, to whom the whole congregation said, Would that we had died in Egypt! Or that we had died in this wilderness!

    ³Why does the Lord bring us to this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and little ones will be a prey. Is it not better for us to return to Egypt?^(B)

    ⁴And they said one to another, Let us choose a captain and return to Egypt.

    ⁵Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of Israelites.

    ⁶And Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among the scouts who had searched the land, rent their clothes,

    ⁷And they said to all the company of Israelites, The land through which we passed as scouts is an exceedingly good land.

    ⁸If the Lord delights in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

    ⁹Only do not rebel against the Lord, neither fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us. Their defense and the shadow [of protection] is removed from over them, but the Lord is with us. Fear them not.

    ¹⁰But all the congregation said to stone [Joshua and Caleb] with stones. But the glory of the Lord appeared at the Tent of Meeting before all the Israelites.

    ¹¹And the Lord said to Moses, How long will this people provoke (spurn, despise) Me? And how long will it be before they believe Me [trusting in, relying on, clinging to Me], for all the signs which I have performed among them?

    ¹²I will smite them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and will make of you [Moses] a nation greater and mightier than they.

    ¹³But Moses said to the Lord, Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for You brought up this people in Your might from among them.

    ¹⁴And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that You, Lord, are in the midst of this people [of Israel], that You, Lord, are seen face to face, and that Your cloud stands over them, and that You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.

    ¹⁵Now if You kill all this people as one man, then the nations that have heard Your fame will say,

    ¹⁶Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which He swore to give to them, therefore He has slain them in the wilderness.

    ¹⁷And now, I pray You, let the power of my Lord be great, as You have promised, saying,

    ¹⁸The Lord is long-suffering and slow to anger, and abundant in mercy and loving-kindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and fourth generation.^(C)

    ¹⁹Pardon, I pray You, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of Your mercy and loving-kindness, just as You have forgiven [them] from Egypt until now.

    ²⁰And the Lord said, I have pardoned according to your word.

    ²¹But truly as I live and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord,^(D)

    ²²Because all those men who have seen My glory and My [miraculous] signs which I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tested and proved Me these ten times and have not heeded My voice,

    ²³Surely they shall not see the land which I swore to give to their fathers; nor shall any who provoked (spurned, despised) Me see it.^(E)

    ²⁴But My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it.

    ²⁵Now because the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valley, tomorrow turn and go into the wilderness by way of the Red Sea.

    ²⁶And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

    ²⁷How long will this evil congregation murmur against Me? I have heard the complaints the Israelites murmur against Me.

    ²⁸Tell them, As I live, says the Lord, what you have said in My hearing I will do to you:

    ²⁹Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness--of all who were numbered of you, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against Me,^(F)

    ³⁰Surely none shall come into the land in which I swore to make you dwell, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

    ³¹But your little ones whom you said would be a prey, them will I bring in and they shall know the land which you have despised and rejected.

    ³²But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.

    ³³And your children shall be wanderers and shepherds in the wilderness for forty years and shall suffer for your whoredoms (your infidelity to your espoused God), until your corpses are consumed in the wilderness.

    ³⁴After the number of the days in which you spied out the land [of Canaan], even forty days, for each day a year shall you bear and suffer for your iniquities, even for forty years, and you shall know My displeasure [the revoking of My promise and My estrangement].

    ³⁵I the Lord have spoken; surely this will I do to all this evil congregation who is gathered together against Me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed [by war, disease, plagues], and here they shall die.^(G)

    ³⁶And the men whom Moses sent to search the land, who returned and made all the congregation grumble and complain against him by bringing back a slanderous report of the land,

    ³⁷Even those men who brought the evil report of the land died by a plague before the Lord.^(H)

    ³⁸But Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among the men who went to search the land, lived still.

    ³⁹Moses told [the Lord's] words to all the Israelites, and [they] mourned greatly.

    ⁴⁰And they rose early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, Behold, we are here, and we intend to go up to the place which the Lord has promised, for we have sinned.

    ⁴¹But Moses said, Why now do you transgress the command of the Lord [to turn back by way of the Red Sea], since it will not succeed?

    ⁴²Go not up, for the Lord is not among you, that you be not struck down before your enemies.

    ⁴³For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you shall fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from following after the Lord, therefore the Lord will not be with you.

    ⁴⁴But they presumed to go up to the heights of the hill country; however, neither the ark of the covenant of the Lord nor Moses departed out of the camp.

    ⁴⁵Then the Amalekites came down and the Canaanites who dwelt in that hill country and smote the Israelites and beat them back, even as far as Hormah.

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²¹And when Jesus had recrossed in the boat to the other side, a great throng gathered about Him, and He was at the lakeshore.

    ²²Then one of the rulers of the synagogue came up, Jairus by name; and seeing Him, he prostrated himself at His feet

    ²³And begged Him earnestly, saying, My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay Your hands on her, so that she may be healed and live.

    ²⁴And Jesus went with him; and a great crowd kept following Him and pressed Him ^[a]from all sides [so as almost to suffocate Him].

    ²⁵And there was a woman who had had a flow of blood for twelve years,

    ²⁶And who had endured much ^[b]suffering under [the hands of] many physicians and had spent all that she had, and was no better but instead grew worse.

    ²⁷She had heard the reports concerning Jesus, and she came up behind Him in the throng and touched His garment,

    ²⁸For she kept saying, If I only touch His garments, I shall be restored to health.

    ²⁹And immediately her flow of blood was dried up at the source, and [^[c]suddenly] she felt in her body that she was healed of her [^[d]distressing] ailment.

    ³⁰And Jesus, recognizing in Himself that the power proceeding from Him had gone forth, turned around immediately in the crowd and said, Who touched My clothes?

    ³¹And the disciples kept saying to Him, You see the crowd pressing hard around You ^[e]from all sides, and You ask, Who touched Me?

    ³²Still He kept looking around to see her who had done it.

    ³³But the woman, knowing what had been done for her, though alarmed and frightened and trembling, fell down before Him and told Him the whole truth.

    ³⁴And He said to her, Daughter, your faith (your ^[f]trust and confidence in Me, springing from faith in God) has restored you to health. Go in ^[g](into) peace and be continually healed and freed from your [^[h]distressing bodily] disease.

    ³⁵While He was still speaking, there came some from the ruler's house, who said [to Jairus], Your daughter has died. Why bother and distress the Teacher any further?

    ^36[i]Overhearing but ignoring what they said, Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, Do not be seized with alarm and struck with fear; only keep on believing.

    ³⁷And He permitted no one to accompany Him except Peter and James and John the brother of James.

    ³⁸When they arrived at the house of the ruler of the synagogue, He ^[j]looked [carefully and with understanding] at [the] tumult and the people weeping and wailing loudly.

    ³⁹And when He had gone in, He said to them, Why do you make an uproar and weep? The little girl is not dead but is sleeping.

    ⁴⁰And they laughed and ^[k]jeered at Him. But He put them all out, and, taking the child's father and mother and those who were with Him, He went in where the little girl was lying.

    ⁴¹Gripping her [firmly] by the hand, He said to her, Talitha cumi--which translated is, Little girl, I say to you, arise [^[l]from the sleep of death]!

    ⁴²And instantly the girl got up and started walking around--for she was twelve years old. And they were utterly astonished and overcome with amazement.

    ⁴³And He strictly commanded and warned them that no one should know this, and He [^[m]expressly] told them to give her [something] to eat.