Bemiḏbar (Numbers) 14

Num 14:1 Then all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the
people wept that night.
Num 14:2 And all the children of Yisra’ĕl grumbled against Mosheh and
against Aharon, and all the congregation said to them, “If only we had died in
the land of Mitsrayim! Or if only we had died in this wilderness!
Num 14:3 “And why is יהוה bringing us to this land to fall by the sword, that
our wives and children should become a prey? Would it not be better for us
to turn back to Mitsrayim?”
Num 14:4 And they said to each other, “Let us appoint a leader, and let us
turn back to Mitsrayim.”
Num 14:5 Then Mosheh and Aharon fell on their faces before all the
assembly of the congregation of the children of Yisra’ĕl.
Num 14:6 And Yehoshua son of Nun, and Kalĕḇ son of Yephunneh, who
were among those who had spied out the land, tore their garments,
Num 14:7 and they spoke to all the congregation of the children of Yisra’ĕl,
saying, “The land we passed through to spy out is an exceedingly good land.
Num 14:8 “If יהוה has delighted in us, then He shall bring us into this land
and give it to us, ‘a land which is flowing with milk and honey.’
Num 14:9 “Only, do not rebel against יהוה, nor fear the people of the land,
for they are our bread. Their defence has turned away from them, and יהוה is
with us. Do not fear them.”
Num 14:10 But all the congregation said to stone them with stones. Then the
esteem of יהוה appeared in the Tent of Meeting before all the children of
Yisra’ĕl.
Num 14:11 And יהוה said to Mosheh, “How long shall I be scorned by these
people? And how long shall I not be trusted by them, with all the signs which
I have done in their midst?
Num 14:12 “Let Me smite them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and
make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”
Num 14:13 And Mosheh said to יהוה, “Then the Mitsrites shall hear it, for by
Your power You brought these people up from their midst,
Num 14:14 and they shall say to the inhabitants of this land they have heard
that You, יהוה, are in the midst of these people, that You, יהוה, are seen eye to
eye and that Your cloud stands above them, and You go before them in a
column of cloud by day and in a column of fire by night.
Num 14:15 “Now if You shall kill these people as one man, then the nations
which have heard of Your report shall speak, saying,
Num 14:16 ‘Because יהוה was not able to bring this people to the land which
He swore to give them, therefore He killed them in the wilderness.’
Num 14:17 “And now, I pray, let the power of יהוה be great, as You have
spoken, saying,
Num 14:18 ‘ יהוה is patient and of great kindness, forgiving crookedness and
transgression, but by no means leaving unpunished; visiting the crookedness
of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation.’
Num 14:19 “Please forgive the crookedness of this people, according to the
greatness of Your kindness, as You have forgiven this people, from
Mitsrayim even until now.”
Num 14:20 And יהוה said, “I shall forgive, according to your word,
Num 14:21 but truly, as I live and all the earth is filled with the esteem of
,יהוה
Num 14:22 for none of these men who have seen My esteem and the signs
which I did in Mitsrayim and in the wilderness, and have tried Me now these
ten times, and have disobeyed My voice,
Num 14:23 shall see the land of which I swore to their fathers, nor any of
those who scorned Me see it.
Num 14:24 “But My servant Kalĕḇ, because he has a different spirit in him
and has followed Me completely, I shall bring into the land where he went,
and his seed shall inherit it.
Num 14:25 “Since the Amalĕqites and the Kena‛anites are dwelling in the
valley, turn back tomorrow and set out into the wilderness by the Way of the
Sea of Reeds.”
Num 14:26 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, and to Aharon, saying,
Num 14:27 “How long shall this evil congregation have this grumbling
against Me? I have heard the grumblings which the children of Yisra’ĕl are
grumbling against Me.
Num 14:28 “Say to them, ‘As I live,’ declares יהוה, ‘as you have spoken in
My hearing, so I do to you:
Num 14:29 ‘The carcasses of you who have grumbled against Me are going
to fall in this wilderness, all of you who were registered, according to your
entire number, from twenty years old and above.
Num 14:30 ‘None of you except Kalĕḇ son of Yephunneh, and Yehoshua son
of Nun, shall enter the land which I swore I would make you dwell in.
Num 14:31 ‘But your little ones, whom you said would become a prey, I
shall bring in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.
Num 14:32 ‘But as for you, your carcasses are going to fall in this
wilderness.
Num 14:33 ‘And your sons shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years,
and shall bear your whorings, until your carcasses are consumed in the
wilderness.
Num 14:34 ‘According to the number of the days in which you spied out the
land, forty days – a day for a year, a day for a year – you are to bear your
crookednesses forty years, and you shall know My breaking off.
Num 14:35 ‘I am  ,יהוהI have spoken, I shall do this to all this evil
congregation who are meeting against Me: In this wilderness they are
consumed, and there they die.’ ”
Num 14:36 And the men whom Mosheh sent to spy out the land, who
returned and made all the congregation grumble against him by bringing an
evil report of the land,
Num 14:37 even those men who brought the evil report about the land, died
by the plague before יהוה.
Num 14:38 Of those men who went to spy out the land, only Yehoshua son of
Nun, and Kalĕḇ son of Yephunneh remained alive.
Num 14:39 And when Mosheh spoke these words to all the children of
Yisra’ĕl, the people mourned greatly.
Num 14:40 And they rose up early in the morning and went up to the top of
the mountain, saying, “See, we have indeed sinned, but we shall go up to the
place which יהוה had spoken of!”
Num 14:41 But Mosheh said, “Why do you now transgress the command of
יהוה, since it does not prosper?
Num 14:42 “Do not go up, lest you be smitten by your enemies, for יהוה is
not in your midst.
Num 14:43 “Because the Amalĕqites and the Kena‛anites are there before
you, and you shall fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from
יהוה, יהוה is not with you.”
Num 14:44 But they presumed to go up to the mountaintop, but neither the
ark of the covenant of יהוה nor Mosheh left the camp.
Num 14:45 So the Amalĕqites and the Kena‛anites who dwelt in that
mountain came down and smote them, and beat them down, even to Ḥormah.