Mga Bilang 14
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Naghimagsik kay Yahweh ang Israel
14 Nalungkot ang buong bayan ng Israel at magdamag na nag-iyakan. 2 Nagbulungan sila laban kina Moises at Aaron. Ang sabi nila, “Mabuti pang namatay na tayo sa Egipto o kaya'y sa ilang 3 kaysa tayo'y patayin ng ating mga kaaway sa lupaing pinagdalhan sa atin ni Yahweh, at bihagin ang ating asawa't mga anak. Mabuti pa'y bumalik na tayo sa Egipto.” 4 At nag-usap-usap sila na pumili ng isang lider na mangunguna sa kanilang pagbalik.
5 Sina Moises at Aaron ay nagpatirapa na nakikita ng buong bayan. 6 Dahil sa hinagpis, pinunit nina Josue na anak ni Nun at Caleb na anak ni Jefune ang kanilang kasuotan. 7 Sinabi nila, “Mainam ang lupaing tiningnan namin, saganang-sagana sa lahat ng bagay. 8 Kung malulugod sa atin si Yahweh, ibibigay niya sa atin ang lupaing iyon na mayaman at sagana sa lahat ng bagay. 9 Huwag(A) lamang kayong maghihimagsik laban sa kanya. Magtiwala kayo sa kanya at huwag matakot sa mga tagaroon. Madali natin silang matatalo. Kasama natin si Yahweh at ginapi na niya ang kanilang mga diyos. Kaya huwag kayong matakot.” 10 Ngunit binantaang babatuhin ng taong-bayan sina Josue at Caleb. Kaya't ipinakita ni Yahweh ang kanyang kaluwalhatian sa ibabaw ng Toldang Tipanan.
Nanalangin si Moises para sa Bayan
11 Itinanong ni Yahweh kay Moises, “Hanggang kailan ako hahamakin ng mga taong ito? Kailan pa sila maniniwala sa akin samantalang nasaksihan naman nilang lahat ang mga himalang ginawa ko para sa kanila? 12 Padadalhan ko sila ng salot at aalisan ng karapatan sa mana. At ikaw ang gagawin kong ama ng isang bansang higit na marami at makapangyarihan kaysa kanila.”
13 Sumagot(B) si Moises, “Malalaman ng mga Egipcio ang gagawin ninyong iyan. Alam pa naman nila na ang Israel ay inilabas ninyo sa Egipto sa pamamagitan ng inyong kapangyarihan. 14 At(C) kung ito'y sabihin nila sa mga taga-Canaan, alam din ng mga iyon na ang Israel ay pinapatnubayan ninyo. Alam nilang kayo ay harap-harapang nagpapakita sa Israel at ang bayang ito'y inyong pinapatnubayan sa pamamagitan ng haliging ulap kung araw at haliging apoy kung gabi. 15 Kung lilipulin ninyo sila, sasabihin ng lahat na 16 nilipol ninyo ang Israel sa ilang sapagkat hindi ninyo sila kayang dalhin sa lupaing ipinangako ninyo sa kanila. 17 Kaya nga, isinasamo kong minsan pa ninyong ipakita ang inyong kapangyarihan tulad ng sinabi ninyo noong una, 18 ‘Si Yahweh ay hindi madaling magalit, mahabagin at handang magpatawad. Subalit hindi niya ipinagwawalang-bahala ang kasamaan, sapagkat ang kasalanan ng mga magulang ay kanyang sisingilin hanggang sa ikatlo at ikaapat na salinlahi.’ 19 Isinasamo ko nga, Yahweh, patawarin na ninyo ang mga taong ito at patnubayan sila tulad ng inyong ginagawa mula nang sila'y ilabas ninyo sa Egipto, sapagkat kayo ay Diyos ng pag-ibig, at handang magpatawad sa mga nagkasala.”
20 Sinabi ni Yahweh, “Dahil sa panalangin mo, pinapatawad ko na sila. 21 Ngunit(D) ito ang tandaan mo: hanggang ako'y buháy at nalulukuban ng aking kaluwalhatian ang buong mundo, 22-23 isa man sa mga nakakita ng himalang ginawa ko ay hindi makakapasok sa lupaing ipinangako ko sa inyong mga ninuno. Paulit-ulit nila akong sinusubok at hindi nila ako sinusunod. 24 Ngunit(E) si Caleb na aking lingkod ay naiiba sa kanila. Sumunod siya sa akin nang buong katapatan, kaya makakapasok siya sa lupaing iyon, pati ang kanyang angkan. 25 Kaya bukas, magpatuloy kayo sa paglalakbay patungong Dagat na Pula.[a] Lumigid kayo sa ilang sapagkat ang mga Amoreo at Cananeo ay nasa kapatagan.”
Ang Parusa sa Israel
26 Sinabi ni Yahweh kina Moises at Aaron, 27 “Hanggang ngayo'y patuloy pa rin ang mga Israelita sa pagrereklamo laban sa akin. Kailan pa ba sila tatahimik? 28 Sabihin ninyo sa kanila na ito ang ipinapasabi ko: ‘Habang buháy akong si Yahweh, gagawin ko sa inyo ang narinig kong gusto ninyong mangyari. 29 Mamamatay(F) kayo dito sa ilang. Sa mga kabilang sa sensus, samakatuwid ay iyong mula sa dalawampung taon pataas, 30 isa man ay walang makakarating sa lupaing ipinangako ko, maliban kina Caleb na anak ni Jefune at Josue na anak ni Nun. 31 Ang makakarating lamang doon ay ang inyong mga anak na sinasabi ninyong mabibihag ng kaaway. Sila ang maninirahan doon. 32 Ngunit mamamatay kayo dito sa ilang. 33 Ang(G) mga anak ninyo'y magpapalabuy-laboy rito sa loob ng apatnapung taon, hanggang hindi kayo namamatay lahat. Ito ang kabayaran ng inyong hindi pagsampalataya. 34 Ang apatnapung araw na pinagmanman ninyo sa lupaing iyon ay tutumbasan ko ng apatnapung taon ng pagpapahirap upang madama ninyo ang aking poot sa loob ng panahong iyon.’ 35 Akong si Yahweh ang maysabi nito at gagawin ko ito sa masamang bayang ito. Mamamatay sila rito sa ilang.”
Namatay ang Sampung Masamang Espiya
36 At ang mga espiya na nagbigay ng masamang ulat na siyang naging dahilan ng kaguluhan sa Israel 37 ay nilipol ni Yahweh sa pamamagitan ng salot. 38 Ngunit hindi namatay si Josue na anak ni Nun at si Caleb na anak ni Jefune.
Nalupig ang Israel sa Horma(H)
39 Lahat ng bilin ni Yahweh ay sinabi ni Moises sa mga Israelita, at sila'y nag-iyakan. 40 Kinaumagahan, nagpunta sila sa ibabaw ng burol. Sinabi nila, “Papunta na kami sa lupaing sinasabi ni Yahweh. Tinatanggap naming kami'y nagkasala.”
41 Ngunit sinabi ni Moises, “Bakit ninyo sinusuway si Yahweh? Hindi ba ninyo alam na hindi magtatagumpay ang ginagawa ninyong iyan? 42 Huwag na kayong tumuloy. Kapag tumuloy kayo, malulupig kayo ng inyong mga kaaway sapagkat hindi kayo sasamahan ni Yahweh. 43 Ang mga Amalekita at Cananeo ay naroon sa pupuntahan ninyo at tiyak na papatayin nila kayo. Hindi ninyo maaasahan ang patnubay ni Yahweh sapagkat siya'y itinakwil na ninyo.”
44 Ngunit nagpatuloy pa rin sila kahit wala sa kanila ang Kaban ng Tipan at hindi nila kasama si Moises. 45 Sinalakay nga sila ng mga Amalekita at mga Cananeo na naninirahan sa kaburulan, tinalo sila ng mga ito at tinugis sila hanggang sa Horma.
Footnotes
- Mga Bilang 14:25 Dagat na Pula: o kaya'y Dagat ng mga Tambo .
Numbers 14
King James Version
14 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!
3 And wherefore hath the Lord brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
4 And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
6 And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:
7 And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.
8 If the Lord delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
9 Only rebel not ye against the Lord, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the Lord is with us: fear them not.
10 But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the Lord appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.
11 And the Lord said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?
12 I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
13 And Moses said unto the Lord, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;)
14 And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that thou Lord art among this people, that thou Lord art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.
15 Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
16 Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.
17 And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,
18 The Lord is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
19 Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
20 And the Lord said, I have pardoned according to thy word:
21 But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord.
22 Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
23 Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
24 But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.
25 (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) Tomorrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
26 And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
27 How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
28 Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the Lord, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
29 Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward which have murmured against me.
30 Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
31 But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.
32 But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.
33 And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
34 After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.
35 I the Lord have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
36 And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,
37 Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the Lord.
38 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.
39 And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.
40 And they rose 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 place which the Lord hath promised: for we have sinned.
41 And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the Lord? but it shall not prosper.
42 Go not up, for the Lord is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies.
43 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the Lord, therefore the Lord will not be with you.
44 But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.
45 Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah.
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