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at the Tabernacle.* 11 And the Lord said to Moses, “How long will these
people treat me with contempt? Will they never believe me, even after all
the miraculous signs I have done among them? 12 I will disown them and
destroy them with a plague. Then I will make you into a nation greater and
mightier than they are!”
NUMBERS 14:33
NUMBERS 14:18
Moses Intercedes for the People
13 But Moses objected. “What will the Egyptians think when they hear about
it?” he asked the Lord. “They know full well the power you displayed in
rescuing your people from Egypt. 14 Now if you destroy them, the Egyptians
will send a report to the inhabitants of this land, who have already heard
that you live among your people. They know, Lord, that you have appeared
to your people face to face and that your pillar of cloud hovers over them.
They know that you go before them in the pillar of cloud by day and the
pillar of fire by night. 15 Now if you slaughter all these people with a single
blow, the nations that have heard of your fame will say, 16 ‘The Lord was not
able to bring them into the land he swore to give them, so he killed them
in the wilderness.’
17 “Please, Lord, prove that your power is as great as you have claimed.
For you said, 18 ‘The Lord is slow to anger and filled with unfailing love,
forgiving every kind of sin and rebellion. But he does not excuse the guilty.
He lays the sins of the parents upon their children; the entire family is affected—even children in the third and fourth generations.’ 19 In keeping
with your magnificent, unfailing love, please pardon the sins of this people,
just as you have forgiven them ever since they left Egypt.”
20 Then the Lord said, “I will pardon them as you have requested. 21 But as
surely as I live, and as surely as the earth is filled with the Lord’s glory, 22 not
one of these people will ever enter that land. They have all seen my glorious
presence and the miraculous signs I performed both in Egypt and in the
wilderness, but again and again they have tested me by refusing to listen to
my voice. 23 They will never even see the land I swore to give their ancestors.
None of those who have treated me with contempt will ever see it. 24 But my
servant Caleb has a different attitude than the others have. He has remained
loyal to me, so I will bring him into the land he explored. His descendants
will possess their full share of that land. 25 Now turn around, and don’t go
on toward the land where the Amalekites and Canaanites live. Tomorrow
you must set out for the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea.*”
The Lord Punishes the Israelites
26 Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, 27 “How long must I put up with
this wicked community and its complaints about me? Yes, I have heard the
complaints the Israelites are making against me. 28 Now tell them this: ‘As
surely as I live, declares the Lord, I will do to you the very things I heard
you say. 29 You will all drop dead in this wilderness! Because you complained
against me, every one of you who is twenty years old or older and was included in the registration will die. 30 You will not enter and occupy the land
I swore to give you. The only exceptions will be Caleb son of Jephunneh and
Joshua son of Nun.
31 “‘You said your children would be carried off as plunder. Well, I will
bring them safely into the land, and they will enjoy what you have despised.
32 But as for you, you will drop dead in this wilderness. 33 And your children
will be like shepherds, wandering in the wilderness for forty years. In this
way, they will pay for your faithlessness, until the last of you lies dead in
the wilderness.
14:10 Hebrew the Tent of Meeting.
14:25 Hebrew sea of reeds.
"THE LORD IS SLOW TO
ANGER AND FILLED WITH
UNFAILING LOVE, FORGIVING
EVERY KIND OF SIN
AND REBELLION."
