Font Size
Numbers 14
New International Version
Numbers 14
New International Version
The People Rebel
14 That night all the members of the community raised their voices and wept aloud.(A) 2 All the Israelites grumbled(B) against Moses and Aaron, and the whole assembly said to them, “If only we had died in Egypt!(C) Or in this wilderness!(D) 3 Why is the Lord bringing us to this land only to let us fall by the sword?(E) Our wives and children(F) will be taken as plunder.(G) Wouldn’t it be better for us to go back to Egypt?(H)” 4 And they said to each other, “We should choose a leader and go back to Egypt.(I)”
5 Then Moses and Aaron fell facedown(J) in front of the whole Israelite assembly(K) gathered there. 6 Joshua son of Nun(L) and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had explored the land, tore their clothes(M) 7 and said to the entire Israelite assembly, “The land we passed through and explored is exceedingly good.(N) 8 If the Lord is pleased with us,(O) he will lead us into that land, a land flowing with milk and honey,(P) and will give it to us.(Q) 9 Only do not rebel(R) against the Lord. And do not be afraid(S) of the people of the land,(T) because we will devour them. Their protection is gone, but the Lord is with(U) us.(V) Do not be afraid of them.”(W)
10 But the whole assembly talked about stoning(X) them. Then the glory of the Lord(Y) appeared at the tent of meeting to all the Israelites. 11 The Lord said to Moses, “How long will these people treat me with contempt?(Z) How long will they refuse to believe in me,(AA) in spite of all the signs(AB) I have performed among them? 12 I will strike them down with a plague(AC) and destroy them, but I will make you into a nation(AD) greater and stronger than they.”(AE)
13 Moses said to the Lord, “Then the Egyptians will hear about it! By your power you brought these people up from among them.(AF) 14 And they will tell the inhabitants of this land about it. They have already heard(AG) that you, Lord, are with these people(AH) and that you, Lord, have been seen face to face,(AI) that your cloud stays over them,(AJ) and that you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.(AK) 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,(AL) so he slaughtered them in the wilderness.’(AM)
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.(AN) Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.’(AO) 19 In accordance with your great love, forgive(AP) the sin of these people,(AQ) just as you have pardoned them from the time they left Egypt until now.”(AR)
20 The Lord replied, “I have forgiven them,(AS) as you asked. 21 Nevertheless, as surely as I live(AT) and as surely as the glory of the Lord(AU) fills the whole earth,(AV) 22 not one of those who saw my glory and the signs(AW) I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness but who disobeyed me and tested me ten times(AX)— 23 not one of them will ever see the land I promised on oath(AY) to their ancestors. No one who has treated me with contempt(AZ) will ever see it.(BA) 24 But because my servant Caleb(BB) has a different spirit and follows me wholeheartedly,(BC) I will bring him into the land he went to, and his descendants will inherit it.(BD) 25 Since the Amalekites(BE) and the Canaanites(BF) are living in the valleys, turn(BG) back tomorrow and set out toward the desert along the route to the Red Sea.[a](BH)”
26 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron: 27 “How long will this wicked community grumble against me? I have heard the complaints of these grumbling Israelites.(BI) 28 So tell them, ‘As surely as I live,(BJ) declares the Lord, I will do to you(BK) the very thing I heard you say: 29 In this wilderness your bodies will fall(BL)—every one of you twenty years old or more(BM) who was counted in the census(BN) and who has grumbled against me. 30 Not one of you will enter the land(BO) I swore with uplifted hand(BP) to make your home, except Caleb son of Jephunneh(BQ) and Joshua son of Nun.(BR) 31 As for your children that you said would be taken as plunder, I will bring them in to enjoy the land you have rejected.(BS) 32 But as for you, your bodies will fall(BT) in this wilderness. 33 Your children will be shepherds here for forty years,(BU) suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness. 34 For forty years(BV)—one year for each of the forty days you explored the land(BW)—you will suffer for your sins and know what it is like to have me against you.’ 35 I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will surely do these things(BX) to this whole wicked community, which has banded together against me. They will meet their end in this wilderness; here they will die.(BY)”
36 So the men Moses had sent(BZ) to explore the land, who returned and made the whole community grumble(CA) against him by spreading a bad report(CB) about it— 37 these men who were responsible for spreading the bad report(CC) about the land were struck down and died of a plague(CD) before the Lord. 38 Of the men who went to explore the land,(CE) only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh survived.(CF)
39 When Moses reported this(CG) to all the Israelites, they mourned(CH) bitterly. 40 Early the next morning they set out for the highest point in the hill country,(CI) saying, “Now we are ready to go up to the land the Lord promised. Surely we have sinned!(CJ)”
41 But Moses said, “Why are you disobeying the Lord’s command? This will not succeed!(CK) 42 Do not go up, because the Lord is not with you. You will be defeated by your enemies,(CL) 43 for the Amalekites(CM) and the Canaanites(CN) will face you there. Because you have turned away from the Lord, he will not be with you(CO) and you will fall by the sword.”
44 Nevertheless, in their presumption they went up(CP) toward the highest point in the hill country, though neither Moses nor the ark of the Lord’s covenant moved from the camp.(CQ) 45 Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites(CR) who lived in that hill country(CS) came down and attacked them and beat them down all the way to Hormah.(CT)
Footnotes
- Numbers 14:25 Or the Sea of Reeds
Numbers 14
King James Version
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.
Números 14
Nueva Versión Internacional
Números 14
Nueva Versión Internacional
El pueblo se rebela
14 Aquella noche toda la comunidad israelita se puso a gritar y a llorar. 2 En sus murmuraciones contra Moisés y Aarón, la comunidad decía: «¡Cómo quisiéramos haber muerto en Egipto o en este desierto! 3 ¿Para qué nos ha traído el Señor a esta tierra? ¿Para morir atravesados por la espada y que nuestras esposas y nuestros niños se conviertan en botín de guerra? ¿No sería mejor que volviéramos a Egipto?». 4 Y unos a otros se decían: «¡Escojamos un jefe que nos lleve a Egipto!».
5 Entonces Moisés y Aarón cayeron rostro en tierra ante toda la comunidad israelita. 6 Allí estaban también Josué, hijo de Nun, y Caleb, hijo de Jefone, los cuales habían participado en la exploración de la tierra. Ambos se rasgaron las vestiduras en señal de duelo 7 y dijeron a toda la comunidad israelita:
—La tierra que recorrimos y exploramos es increíblemente buena. 8 Si el Señor se agrada de nosotros, nos hará entrar en ella. ¡Nos va a dar una tierra donde abundan la leche y la miel! 9 Así que no se rebelen contra el Señor ni tengan miedo de la gente que habita en esa tierra. ¡Ya son pan comido! No tienen quién los proteja, porque el Señor está de parte nuestra. Así que, ¡no les tengan miedo!
10 Pero como toda la comunidad hablaba de apedrearlos, la gloria del Señor se manifestó en la Tienda de reunión, frente a todos los israelitas. 11 Entonces el Señor dijo a Moisés:
—¿Hasta cuándo esta gente me seguirá menospreciando? ¿Hasta cuándo se negarán a creer en mí, a pesar de todas las maravillas que he hecho entre ellos? 12 Voy a enviarles una plaga que los destruya, pero de ti haré un pueblo más grande y fuerte que ellos.
13 Moisés respondió al Señor:
—¡Recuerda que fuiste tú quien con tu poder sacaste de Egipto a este pueblo! Cuando los egipcios se enteren de lo ocurrido, 14 se lo contarán a los habitantes de este país, quienes ya saben que tú, Señor, estás en medio de este pueblo. También saben que tú, Señor, te dejas ver cara a cara, que tu nube reposa sobre tu pueblo y que eres tú quien lo guía, de día con la columna de nube y de noche con la columna de fuego. 15 De manera que, si matas a todo este pueblo, las naciones que han oído hablar de tu fama dirán: 16 El Señor no fue capaz de llevar a este pueblo a la tierra que juró darles, ¡y acabó matándolos en el desierto!
17 »Ahora, Señor, ¡deja sentir tu gran poder! Tú mismo has dicho: 18 “El Señor es lento para la ira y grande en amor, perdona la maldad y la rebeldía, pero no tendrá por inocente al culpable, sino que castiga la maldad de los padres en sus hijos hasta la tercera y cuarta generación”. 19 Entonces, por tu gran amor, perdona el pecado de este pueblo, tal como lo has venido perdonando desde que salió de Egipto».
20 El Señor respondió:
—Me pides que los perdone y los perdono. 21 Pero tan cierto como que yo, el Señor, vivo y mi gloria llena toda la tierra, 22 ninguno de los que vieron mi gloria y las maravillas que hice en Egipto y en el desierto y aún así me desobedecieron y me pusieron a prueba diez veces, 23 verá jamás la tierra que, bajo juramento, prometí dar a sus antepasados. ¡Ninguno de los que me despreciaron la verá! 24 En cambio, a mi siervo Caleb, que ha mostrado un espíritu diferente y me ha sido fiel, le daré posesión de la tierra que exploró y su descendencia la heredará. 25 Pero regresen mañana al desierto por la ruta del mar Rojo,[a] puesto que los amalecitas y los cananeos viven en el valle.
26 El Señor dijo a Moisés y a Aarón:
27 —¿Hasta cuándo ha de murmurar contra mí esta perversa comunidad? Ya he escuchado cómo se quejan contra mí los israelitas. 28 Así que diles de mi parte: “Tan cierto como que yo vivo”, afirma el Señor, “haré que se cumplan sus deseos. 29 Los cadáveres de todos ustedes quedarán tirados en este desierto. Ninguno de los censados mayores de veinte años que murmuraron contra mí 30 tomará posesión de la tierra que juré solemnemente que sería su hogar. Solo entrarán en ella Caleb, hijo de Jefone, y Josué, hijo de Nun. 31 También entrarán en la tierra los niños que ustedes dijeron que serían botín de guerra. Y serán ellos los que gocen de la tierra que ustedes rechazaron. 32 Pero los cadáveres de todos ustedes quedarán tirados en este desierto. 33 Durante cuarenta años los hijos de ustedes serán pastores por el desierto. Cargarán con esta infidelidad, hasta que el último de ustedes caiga muerto en el desierto. 34 La exploración del país duró cuarenta días, así que ustedes sufrirán un año por cada día. Cuarenta años llevarán a cuestas su maldad y sabrán lo que es tenerme por enemigo”. 35 Yo soy el Señor y cumpliré al pie de la letra todo lo que anuncié contra esta perversa comunidad que se atrevió a desafiarme. En este desierto perecerán. ¡Morirán aquí mismo!
36 Los hombres que Moisés había enviado a explorar el país fueron los que, al volver, difundieron la información falsa de que la tierra era mala. Con esto hicieron que toda la comunidad murmurara. 37 Por eso los responsables de haber difundido esta información falsa acerca de aquella tierra murieron delante del Señor, víctimas de una plaga. 38 De todos los hombres que fueron a explorar el país solo sobrevivieron Josué, hijo de Nun, y Caleb, hijo de Jefone.
El pueblo intenta conquistar la tierra
39 Cuando Moisés terminó de decirles esto, todos los israelitas se pusieron a llorar amargamente. 40 Al otro día, muy de mañana, el pueblo empezó a subir a la parte alta de la zona montañosa y decía:
—Subamos al lugar que el Señor nos ha prometido, pues reconocemos que hemos pecado.
41 Pero Moisés dijo:
—¿Por qué han vuelto a desobedecer la orden del Señor? ¡Esto no les va a dar resultado! 42 No suban, porque los derrotarán sus enemigos, pues el Señor no está entre ustedes. 43 Tendrán que enfrentarse a los amalecitas y a los cananeos, que los matarán a filo de espada. Como ustedes se han alejado del Señor, él no estará con ustedes.
44 Pero ellos se empecinaron en subir a la cumbre de la montaña, a pesar de que ni Moisés ni el arca del pacto del Señor salieron del campamento. 45 Entonces los amalecitas y los cananeos que vivían en esas montañas descendieron y los derrotaron, haciéndolos retroceder hasta Jormá.
Footnotes
- 14:25 Lit. mar de las Cañas. Término con el que se designa en la Biblia al mar Rojo en su parte septentrional.
New International Version (NIV) 
Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. Copyright © 2019 by Zondervan.
Nueva Versión Internacional (NVI) 
Santa Biblia, NUEVA VERSIÓN INTERNACIONAL® NVI® © 1999, 2015, 2022 por Biblica, Inc.®, Inc.® Usado con permiso de Biblica, Inc.® Reservados todos los derechos en todo el mundo. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.