Numbers 14-15 (Amplified Bible)

Numbers 14

 ¹AND ALL the congregation cried out with a loud voice, and [they] wept that night.

    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?^(A)

    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.^(B)

    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,^(C)

    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.^(D)

    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,^(E)

    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.^(F)

    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.^(G)

    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.

   

Numbers 15

 ¹AND THE Lord said to Moses,

    ²Say to the Israelites, When you come into the land where you are to live, which I am giving you,

    ³And will make an offering by fire to the Lord from the herd or from the flock, a burnt offering or a sacrifice to fulfill a special vow or as a freewill offering or in your set feasts, to make a pleasant and soothing fragrance to the Lord,

    ⁴Then shall he who brings his offering to the Lord bring a cereal offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a fourth of a hin of oil.

    ⁵And a fourth of a hin of wine for the drink offering you shall prepare with the burnt offering or for the sacrifice, for each lamb.

    ⁶Or for a ram you shall prepare for a cereal offering two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a third of a hin of oil.

    ⁷And for the drink offering you shall offer a third of a hin of wine, for a sweet and pleasing odor to the Lord. of the night.

    ⁸And when you prepare a bull for a burnt offering or for a sacrifice, in fulfilling a special vow or peace offering to the Lord,

    ⁹Then shall one offer with the bull a cereal offering of three tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil.

    ¹⁰And you shall bring for the drink offering half a hin of wine for an offering made by fire, of a pleasant and soothing fragrance to the Lord.

    ¹¹Thus shall it be done for each bull or for each ram, or for each of the male lambs or of the kids.

    ¹²According to the number that you shall prepare, so shall you do to everyone according to their number.

    ¹³All who are native-born shall do these things in this way in bringing an offering made by fire of a sweet and pleasant odor to the Lord.

    ¹⁴And if a stranger sojourns with you or whoever may be among you throughout your generations, and he wishes to offer an offering made by fire, of a pleasing and soothing fragrance to the Lord, as you do, so shall he do.

    ¹⁵There shall be one [and the same] statute [both] for you [of the congregation] and for the stranger who is a temporary resident with you, a statute forever throughout your generations: as you are, so shall the stranger be before the Lord.

    ¹⁶One law and one ordinance shall be for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you.

    ¹⁷And the Lord said to Moses,

    ¹⁸Say to the Israelites, When you come into the land to which I am bringing you,

    ¹⁹Then, when you eat of the food of the land, you shall set apart a portion for a gift to the Lord [called a heave or taken-out offering].

    ²⁰You shall set apart a cake made of the first of your coarse meal as a gift [to the Lord]; as an offering set apart from the threshing floor, so shall you lift it out or heave it.

    ²¹Of the first of your coarse meal you shall give to the Lord a portion for a gift throughout your generations [your heave or lifted-out offering].

    ²²When you have erred and have not observed all these commandments which the Lord has spoken to Moses,

    ²³Even all that the Lord has commanded you through Moses, from the day that the Lord gave commandment and onward throughout your generations,

    ²⁴Then it shall be, if it was done unwittingly or in error without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bull for a burnt offering, for a pleasant and soothing fragrance to the Lord, with its cereal offering and its drink offering, according to the ordinance, and one male goat for a sin offering.

    ²⁵And the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the Israelites, and they shall be forgiven, for it was an error and they have brought their offering, an offering made by fire to the Lord, and their sin offering before the Lord for their error.

    ²⁶And all the congregation of the Israelites shall be forgiven and the stranger who lives temporarily among them, because all the people were involved in the error.

    ²⁷And if any person sins unknowingly or unintentionally, he shall offer a female goat a year old for a sin offering.

    ²⁸And the priest shall make atonement before the Lord for the person who commits an error when he sins unknowingly or unintentionally, to make atonement for him; and he shall be forgiven.

    ²⁹You shall have one law for him who sins unknowingly or unintentionally, whether he is native born among the Israelites or a stranger who is sojourning among them.

    ³⁰But the person who does anything [wrong] willfully and openly, whether he is native-born or a stranger, that one reproaches, reviles, and blasphemes the Lord, and that person shall be cut off from among his people [that the atonement made for them may not include him].

    ³¹Because he has despised and rejected the word of the Lord, and has broken His commandment, that person shall be utterly cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.

    ³²While the Israelites were in the wilderness, they found a man who was gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.

    ³³Those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation.

    ³⁴They put him in custody, because it was not certain or clear what should be done to him.

    ³⁵And the Lord said to Moses, The man shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.

    ³⁶And all the congregation brought him without the camp and stoned him to death with stones, as the Lord commanded Moses.

    ³⁷And the Lord said to Moses,

    ³⁸Speak to the Israelites and bid them make fringes or tassels on the corners in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and put upon the fringe of the borders or upon the tassel of each corner a cord of blue.

    ³⁹And it shall be to you a fringe or tassel that you may look upon and remember all the commandments of the Lord and do them, that you may not spy out and follow after [the desires of] your own heart and your own eyes, after which you used to follow and play the harlot [spiritually, if not physically],

    ⁴⁰That you may remember and do all My commandments and be holy to your God.

    ⁴¹I am the Lord your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God. I am the Lord your God.