- 13And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying, 2Send men, that they may search the land of Canaan which I give unto the children of Israel. Of every tribe of their fathers shall you send a man, every one a ruler among them. 3And Moses, by the commandment of the Lord, sent them from the wilderness of Paran — all those men were heads of the children of Israel. 4And these were their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur; 5of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori; 6of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh; 7of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph; 8of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun; 9of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu; 10of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi; 11of the tribe of Joseph, namely, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi; 12of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli; 13of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael; 14of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi; 15of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi. 16These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Hoshea, the son of Nun, Joshua.
- 17And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Go up this way southward, and go up into the mountain, 18and see the land — what it is, and the people that dwell therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many. 19And what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad, and what cities they are that they dwell in, whether in tents or in strongholds. 20And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein or not. And be of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land (now the time was the time of the first ripe grapes).
- 21So they went up and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath. 22And they ascended by the south and came unto Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai — the children of Anak — were. Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt. 23And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it between two upon a staff, and they brought of the pomegranates and of the figs. 24The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from there.
- 25And they returned from searching of the land after forty days. 26And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh, and brought back word unto them and unto all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land. 27And they told him and said, We came unto the land to which you sent us, and surely it flows with milk and honey, and this is the fruit of it. 28Nevertheless, the people are strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled and very great. And moreover, we saw the children of Anak there. 29The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south, and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the mountains. And the Canaanites dwell by the sea and by the banks of Jordan.
- 30And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once and possess it, for we are well able to overcome it. 31But the men that went up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we. 32And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land through which we have gone to search, it is a land that eats up the inhabitants thereof, and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature. 33And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, who come of the giants. And we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
- 14And all the congregation lifted up their voice and cried, and the people wept that night. 2And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, and the whole congregation said unto them, Would to God that we had died in the land of Egypt. Or would to God we had died in this wilderness. 3And why has the Lord brought us unto this land? To fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? Would it not better for us to return into Egypt? 4And they said one to another, Let us make a captain and let us return into Egypt.
- 5Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel. 6And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes. 7And they spoke unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land which we passed through to search, it is an exceedingly good land. 8If the Lord delight in us, then he will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land which flows with milk and honey. 9Only rebel not against the Lord, neither fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us, their defense has departed from them, and the Lord is with us; fear them not. 10But all the congregation threatened to stone them with stones.
- And the glory of the Lord appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation, before all the children of Israel. 11And the Lord said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? And how long will it be before they believe me, for all the signs which I have shown among them? 12I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a greater nation, and mightier than they.
- 13And Moses said unto the Lord, Then the Egyptians shall hear it — for you brought up this people in your might from among them — 14and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land; for they have heard that you Lord are among this people, that you Lord are seen face to face, and that your cloud stands over them, and that you go before them by daytime in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night. 15Now if you shall kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying, 16Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore unto them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness. 17And now I implore you, let the power of my Lord be great according as you have spoken, saying, 18The Lord is long-suffering 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. 19Pardon, I implore you, the iniquity of this people, according unto the greatness of your mercy, and as you have forgiven this people from Egypt even until now.
- 20And the Lord said, I have pardoned according to your word. 21But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord. 22Because all those men who have seen my glory and my miracles which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tested me now these ten times, and have not listened to my voice, 23surely they shall not see the land which I swore unto their fathers; neither shall any of them that provoked me see it. 24But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him and has followed me fully, him will I bring into the land into which he went, and his seed shall possess it (25now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelled in the valley). Tomorrow, turn and go into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.
- 26And the Lord spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 27How long shall I bear with this evil congregation which murmurs against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel which they murmur against me. 28Say unto them, As truly as I live, says the Lord, as you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you. 29Your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness. And all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me, 30doubtless you shall not come into the land concerning which I swore to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. 31But your little ones — whom you said should be a prey — them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which you have despised. 32But as for you, your carcasses, they shall fall in this wilderness. 33And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms until your carcasses are wasted in the wilderness. 34After the number of the days in which you searched the land — even forty days, each day for a year — shall you bear your iniquities, even forty years; and you shall know my opposition. 35I 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.
- 36And the men whom 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, 37even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the Lord. 38But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of the men that went to search the land, lived still. 39And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel, and the people mourned greatly.
- 40And they rose up early in the morning and went up into the top of the mountain, saying, Behold, we are here, and will go up unto the place which the Lord has promised, for we have sinned. 41And Moses said, Why now do you transgress the commandment of the Lord? But it shall not prosper. 42Go not up — for the Lord is not among you — that you be not smitten before your enemies. 43For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you shall fall by the sword because you are turned away from the Lord; therefore, the Lord will not be with you. 44But they presumed to go up unto the hilltop. Nevertheless, the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and Moses, departed not out of the camp. 45Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites who dwelled in that hill, and smote them and beat them, even unto Hormah.
- 15And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying, 2Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them, When you have come into the land of your habitations which I give unto you, 3and will make an offering by fire unto the Lord — a burnt offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a freewill offering, or in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet savor unto the Lord, of the herd or of the flock — 4then shall he that offers his offering unto the Lord bring a grain offering of a tenth part of flour mingled with the fourth part of a hin of oil. 5And the fourth part of a hin of wine, for a drink offering, shall you prepare with the burnt offering or sacrifice for one lamb. 6Or for a ram, you shall prepare for a grain offering two tenth parts of flour mingled with the third part of a hin of oil. 7And for a drink offering, you shall offer the third part of a hin of wine, for a sweet savor unto the Lord. 8And when you prepare a bullock for a burnt offering, or for a sacrifice in performing a vow, or peace offerings unto the Lord, 9then shall he bring with a bullock a grain offering of three tenth parts of flour mingled with half a hin of oil. 10And you shall bring for a drink offering half a hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto the Lord. 11Thus shall it be done for one bullock, or for one ram, or for a lamb, or a kid. 12According to the number that you shall prepare, so shall you do to every one, according to their number.
- 13All that are born of the country shall do these things after this manner, in offering an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto the Lord. 14And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whoever is among you in your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto the Lord, as you do, so he shall do. 15One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation and also for the stranger that sojourns with you, an ordinance for ever in your generations. As you are, so shall the stranger be before the Lord. 16One law and one manner shall be for you and for the stranger that sojourns with you. 17And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying, 18Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them, When you come into the land to which I bring you, 19then it shall be that when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall offer up a heave offering unto the Lord. 20You shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough for a heave offering. As you do the heave offering of the threshing floor, so shall you heave it: 21of the first of your dough, you shall give unto the Lord a heave offering, in your generations.
- 22And if you have erred and not observed all these commandments which the Lord has spoken unto Moses, 23even all that the Lord has commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day that the Lord commanded Moses and henceforth among your generations, 24then it shall be if anything is committed by ignorance, without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt offering, for a sweet savor unto the Lord, with his grain offering and his drink offering according to the manner, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering. 25And the priest shall make an atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them, for it is ignorance, and they shall bring their offering (a sacrifice made by fire unto the Lord, and their sin offering before the Lord) for their ignorance. 26And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Israel, and the stranger that sojourns among them, seeing all the people were in ignorance.
- 27And if any soul sin through ignorance, then he shall bring a she-goat of the first year for a sin offering. 28And the priest shall make an atonement for the soul that sins ignorantly, when he sins by ignorance before the Lord, to make an atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him. 29You shall have one law for him that sins through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel and for the stranger that sojourns among them. 30But the soul that does anything presumptuously, whether he be born in the land or a stranger, the same reproaches the Lord, and that soul shall be cut off from among his people. 31Because he has despised the word of the Lord and has broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.
- 32And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the Sabbath day. 33And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation. 34And they put him in custody, because it was not declared what should be done to him. 35And the Lord said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp. 36And all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him with stones, and he died, as the Lord commanded Moses.
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