fSee Ex. 34:6, 7
zSee Gen. 14:22
Numbers 14:12-37
12I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I awill make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”Moses Intercedes for the People
13But bMoses said to the Lord, “Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for you brought up this people in your might from among them, 14and they will tell the inhabitants of this land. cThey have heard that you, O Lord, are in the midst of this people. For you, O Lord, are seen face to face, and dyour cloud stands over them and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night. 15Now if you kill this people as one man, then the nations who have heard your fame will say, 16‘It is because the Lord ewas not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to give to them that he has killed them in the wilderness.’ 17And now, please let the power of the Lord be great as you have promised, saying, 18 f‘The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, gvisiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the third and the fourth generation.’ 19Please hpardon the iniquity of this people, according to the greatness of your steadfast love, just ias you have forgiven this people, from Egypt until now.”God Promises Judgment
20Then the Lord said, “I have pardoned, jaccording to your word. 21But truly, as I live, and as all kthe earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord, 22 lnone of the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have put me to the test these mten times and have not obeyed my voice, 23 nshall see the land that I swore to give to their fathers. And none of those who despised me shall see it. 24But my servant oCaleb, because he has a different spirit and has pfollowed me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it. 25 qNow, since the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valleys, rturn tomorrow and set out for the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.”26And the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 27“How long shall sthis wicked congregation grumble against me? tI have heard the grumblings of the people of Israel, which they grumble against me. 28Say to them, u‘As I live, declares the Lord, vwhat you have said in my hearing I will do to you: 29 wyour dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and xof all your number, listed in the census yfrom twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against me, 30not one shall come into the land where I zswore that I would make you dwell, aaexcept Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun. 31 abBut your little ones, who you said would become a prey, I will bring in, and they shall know the land that acyou have rejected. 32But as for you, adyour dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness. 33And your children aeshall be shepherds in the wilderness afforty years and shall agsuffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness. 34 ahAccording to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, aiforty days, a year for each day, you shall bear your iniquity forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.’ 35 ajI, the Lord, have spoken. Surely this will I do to all akthis wicked congregation who are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall come to a full end, and there they shall die.”
36 alAnd the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation grumble against him by bringing up a bad report about the land— 37the men who brought up a bad report of the land— amdied by plague before the Lord.
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