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Numbers 14:11-25
Christian Standard Bible
Numbers 14:11-25
Christian Standard Bible
God’s Judgment of Israel’s Rebellion
11 The Lord said to Moses, “How long will these people despise me? How long will they not trust in me despite all the signs I have performed among them?(A) 12 I will strike them with a plague and destroy them. Then I will make you into a greater and mightier nation than they are.”(B)
13 But Moses replied to the Lord, “The Egyptians will hear about it, for by your strength you brought up this people from them. 14 They will tell it to the inhabitants of this land.(C) They have heard that you, Lord, are among these people, how you, Lord, are seen face to face, how your cloud stands over them, and how you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.(D) 15 If you kill this people with a single blow,[a](E) the nations that have heard of your fame(F) will declare, 16 ‘Since the Lord wasn’t able to bring this people into the land he swore to give them,(G) he has slaughtered them in the wilderness.’(H)
17 “So now, may my Lord’s power be magnified just as you have spoken: 18 The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in faithful love,(I) forgiving iniquity and rebellion.(J) But he will not leave the guilty unpunished,(K) bringing the consequences of the fathers’ iniquity on the children to the third and fourth generation.(L) 19 Please pardon the iniquity of this people, in keeping with the greatness of your faithful love,(M) just as you have forgiven them from Egypt until now.”
20 The Lord responded, “I have pardoned them as you requested. 21 Yet as I live and as the whole earth is filled with the Lord’s glory,(N) 22 none of the men who have seen my glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tested me these ten times and did not obey me, 23 will ever see the land I swore to give their ancestors.(O) None of those who have despised me(P) will see it. 24 But since my servant Caleb has a different spirit and has remained loyal to me, I will bring him into the land where he has gone, and his descendants will inherit it.(Q) 25 Since the Amalekites and Canaanites are living in the lowlands,[b] turn back tomorrow and head for the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea.”(R)
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Numbers 14:11-25
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Numbers 14:11-25
New International Version
11 The Lord said to Moses, “How long will these people treat me with contempt?(A) How long will they refuse to believe in me,(B) in spite of all the signs(C) I have performed among them? 12 I will strike them down with a plague(D) and destroy them, but I will make you into a nation(E) greater and stronger than they.”(F)
13 Moses said to the Lord, “Then the Egyptians will hear about it! By your power you brought these people up from among them.(G) 14 And they will tell the inhabitants of this land about it. They have already heard(H) that you, Lord, are with these people(I) and that you, Lord, have been seen face to face,(J) that your cloud stays over them,(K) and that you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.(L) 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,(M) so he slaughtered them in the wilderness.’(N)
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.(O) Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.’(P) 19 In accordance with your great love, forgive(Q) the sin of these people,(R) just as you have pardoned them from the time they left Egypt until now.”(S)
20 The Lord replied, “I have forgiven them,(T) as you asked. 21 Nevertheless, as surely as I live(U) and as surely as the glory of the Lord(V) fills the whole earth,(W) 22 not one of those who saw my glory and the signs(X) I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness but who disobeyed me and tested me ten times(Y)— 23 not one of them will ever see the land I promised on oath(Z) to their ancestors. No one who has treated me with contempt(AA) will ever see it.(AB) 24 But because my servant Caleb(AC) has a different spirit and follows me wholeheartedly,(AD) I will bring him into the land he went to, and his descendants will inherit it.(AE) 25 Since the Amalekites(AF) and the Canaanites(AG) are living in the valleys, turn(AH) back tomorrow and set out toward the desert along the route to the Red Sea.[a](AI)”
Footnotes
- Numbers 14:25 Or the Sea of Reeds
Numbers 14:11-25
King James Version
Numbers 14:11-25
King James Version
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.
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