Numbers 13:1-2
Revised Standard Version
Spies Sent into Canaan
13 The Lord said to Moses, 2 “Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the people of Israel; from each tribe of their fathers shall you send a man, every one a leader among them.”
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Numbers 13:25
Revised Standard Version
The Report of the Spies
25 At the end of forty days they returned from spying out the land.
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Numbers 14:1
Revised Standard Version
The People Rebel
14 Then all the congregation raised a loud cry; and the people wept that night.
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Numbers 14:26-29
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An Attempted Invasion is Repulsed
26 And the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron, 27 “How long shall this wicked congregation murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the people of Israel, which they murmur against me. 28 Say to them, ‘As I live, says the Lord, what you have said in my hearing I will do to you: 29 your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and of all your number, numbered from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me,
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Numbers 14:34-35
Revised Standard Version
34 According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, for every day a year, you shall bear your iniquity, forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.’ 35 I, the Lord, have spoken; surely this will I do to all this wicked congregation that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall come to a full end, and there they shall die.”
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