English Bible Presentation Sharing - Numbers Book, chapter 14, verse 54 in Mkjv Version

Numbers 14 : 1 (MKJV)

And all the congregation lifted up their voice and cried. And the people wept that night.

Numbers 14 : 2 (MKJV)

And all the sons of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. And the whole congregation said to them, Oh that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or, Oh that we had died in the wilderness!

Numbers 14 : 3 (MKJV)

And why has Jehovah brought us into this land to fall by the sword, so that our wives and our sons should be a prey? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?

Numbers 14 : 4 (MKJV)

And they said to one another, Let us make a leader, and let us return to Egypt.

Numbers 14 : 5 (MKJV)

And Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the sons of Israel.

Numbers 14 : 6 (MKJV)

And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, of those that searched the land, tore their clothes.

Numbers 14 : 7 (MKJV)

And they spoke to all the company of the sons of Israel saying, The land which we passed through to search is an exceedingly good land.

Numbers 14 : 8 (MKJV)

If Jehovah delights in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land which flows with milk and honey.

Numbers 14 : 9 (MKJV)

Only do not rebel against Jehovah, neither fear the people of the land. For they are bread for us. Their protection has moved from them, and Jehovah is with us. Do not fear them.

Numbers 14 : 10 (MKJV)

But all the congregation said to stone them with stones. And the glory of Jehovah appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the sons of Israel.

Numbers 14 : 11 (MKJV)

And Jehovah said to 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?

Numbers 14 : 12 (MKJV)

I will strike them with the pestilence and will disinherit them, and will make of you a greater nation and mightier than they.

Numbers 14 : 13 (MKJV)

And Moses said to Jehovah, Then the Egyptians will hear, for You have brought up this people in Your might from among them.

Numbers 14 : 14 (MKJV)

And they will say to the inhabitant of this land, They have heard that You, Jehovah, are among this people, who is seen eye to eye. You are Jehovah, and Your cloud stands over them, and You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.

Numbers 14 : 15 (MKJV)

And will You kill this people as one man? Then the nations who have heard Your fame will speak, saying,

Numbers 14 : 16 (MKJV)

Because Jehovah was not able to bring this people into the land which He swore to them, therefore He has slain them in the wilderness.

Numbers 14 : 17 (MKJV)

And now, I beseech You, let the power of my Lord be great, according as You have spoken, saying,

Numbers 14 : 18 (MKJV)

Jehovah 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 sons to the third and fourth generation.

Numbers 14 : 19 (MKJV)

I beseech You, pardon the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of Your mercy, and as You have forgiven this people from Egypt even until now.

Numbers 14 : 20 (MKJV)

And Jehovah said, I have pardoned according to your word.

Numbers 14 : 21 (MKJV)

But truly, as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of Jehovah.

Numbers 14 : 22 (MKJV)

Because all those men who 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 listened to My voice,

Numbers 14 : 23 (MKJV)

surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked Me see it.

Numbers 14 : 24 (MKJV)

But My servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed Me fully, I will bring him into the land into which he went. And his seed shall possess it.

Numbers 14 : 25 (MKJV)

(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites lived in the valley.) Tomorrow turn and go into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.

Numbers 14 : 26 (MKJV)

And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

Numbers 14 : 27 (MKJV)

How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmurs against Me? I have heard the murmurings of the sons of Israel which they murmur against Me.

Numbers 14 : 28 (MKJV)

Say to them, As I live, says Jehovah, as you have spoken in My ears, so I will do to you.

Numbers 14 : 29 (MKJV)

Your dead bodies 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,

Numbers 14 : 30 (MKJV)

you shall certainly not come into the land which I swore to make you live in, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

Numbers 14 : 31 (MKJV)

But your little ones, which you said should be a prey, I will bring them in and they shall know the land which you have despised.

Numbers 14 : 32 (MKJV)

But as for you, your bodies shall fall in this wilderness.

Numbers 14 : 33 (MKJV)

And your sons shall feed in the wilderness forty years and bear your fornications, until your dead bodies have wasted in the wilderness.

Numbers 14 : 34 (MKJV)

According to the number of the days in which you searched the land, forty days, each day for a year you shall bear your iniquities, forty years; and you shall know My alienation.

Numbers 14 : 35 (MKJV)

I Jehovah have spoken; I will surely do it to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. They shall be destroyed in this wilderness, and there they shall die.

Numbers 14 : 36 (MKJV)

And the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report upon the land,

Numbers 14 : 37 (MKJV)

even those men that brought up the evil report upon the land died by the plague before Jehovah.

Numbers 14 : 38 (MKJV)

But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, of the men that went to spy out the land, lived.

Numbers 14 : 39 (MKJV)

And Moses told these sayings to all the sons of Israel. And the people mourned greatly.

Numbers 14 : 40 (MKJV)

And they rose up early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we are here, and will go up to the place which Jehovah has promised, for we have sinned.

Numbers 14 : 41 (MKJV)

And Moses said, Why do you now go beyond the command of Jehovah, since it shall not be blessed?

Numbers 14 : 42 (MKJV)

Do not go up, for Jehovah is not among you. And shall you not be beaten before your enemies?

Numbers 14 : 43 (MKJV)

For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you shall fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from Jehovah, therefore Jehovah will not be with you.

Numbers 14 : 44 (MKJV)

But they presumed to go up to the hill top. But the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, and Moses, did not leave the camp.

Numbers 14 : 45 (MKJV)

And the Amalekites and the Canaanites who were living in that mountain came down and struck them, and beat them down, to Hormah.