Bible Reading
April 11
The World English Bible
Apr.
11
Numbers
13, 14
Num
13:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Num
13:2 "Send men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which
I give to the children of Israel. Of every tribe of their fathers,
you shall send a man, every one a prince among them."
Num
13:3 Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the
commandment of Yahweh: all of them men who were heads of the children
of Israel.
Num
13:4 These were their names: Of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son
of Zaccur.
Num
13:5 Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.
Num
13:6 Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
Num
13:7 Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.
Num
13:8 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun.
Num
13:9 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.
Num
13:10 Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi.
Num
13:11 Of the tribe of Joseph, namely,
of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.
Num
13:12 Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.
Num
13:13 Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael.
Num
13:14 Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi.
Num
13:15 Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.
Num
13:16 These are the names of the men who Moses sent to spy out the
land. Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.
Num
13:17 Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to
them, Go up this way by the South, and go up into the hill country:
Num
13:18 and see the land, what it is; and the people who dwell
therein, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or
many;
Num
13:19 and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it is good or
bad; and what cities they are that they dwell in, whether in camps,
or in strongholds;
Num
13:20 and what the land is, whether it is fat or lean, whether there
is wood therein, or not. Be of good courage, and bring of the fruit
of the land. Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes.
Num
13:21 So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of
Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath.
Num
13:22 They went up by the South, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman,
Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron
was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
Num
13:23 They came to the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from there a
branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it on a staff
between two; they brought
also of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
Num
13:24 That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the
cluster which the children of Israel cut down from there.
Num
13:25 They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty
days.
Num
13:26 They went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the
congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran,
to Kadesh; and brought back word to them, and to all the
congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.
Num
13:27 They told him, and said, We came to the land where you sent
us; and surely it flows with milk and honey; and this is its fruit.
Num
13:28 However the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the
cities are fortified, and
very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
Num
13:29 Amalek dwells in the land of the South: and the Hittite, and
the Jebusite, and the Amorite, dwell in the hill country; and the
Canaanite dwells by the sea, and along by the side of the Jordan.
Num
13:30 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.
Num
13:31 But the men who went up with him said, We aren't able to go up
against the people; for they are stronger than we.
Num
13:32 They brought up an evil report of the land which they had
spied out to the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which
we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up its inhabitants;
and all the people who we saw in it are men of great stature.
Num
13:33 There we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come of the
Nephilim: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we
were in their sight.
Num
14:1 All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the
people wept that night.
Num
14:2 All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against
Aaron: and the whole congregation said to them, Would that we had
died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this
wilderness!
Num
14:3 Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword?
Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: wouldn't it be better
for us to return into Egypt?
Num
14:4 They said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us
return into Egypt.
Num
14:5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the
assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
Num
14:6 Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were
of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes:
Num
14:7 and they spoke to all the congregation of the children of
Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is
an exceeding good land.
Num
14:8 If Yahweh delight in us, then he will bring us into this land,
and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey.
Num
14:9 Only don't rebel against Yahweh, neither fear the people of the
land; for they are bread for us: their defense is removed from over
them, and Yahweh is with us: don't fear them.
Num
14:10 But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. The
glory of Yahweh appeared in the Tent of Meeting to all the children
of Israel.
Num
14:11 Yahweh said to Moses, How long will this people despise me?
and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I
have worked among them?
Num
14:12 I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them,
and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.
Num
14:13 Moses said to Yahweh, Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you
brought up this people in your might from among them;
Num
14:14 and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They
have heard that you Yahweh are in the midst of this people; for you
Yahweh are seen face to face, 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.
Num
14:15 Now if you shall kill this people as one man, then the nations
which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,
Num
14:16 Because Yahweh was not able to bring this people into the land
which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the
wilderness.
Num
14:17 Now please let the power of the Lord be great, according as
you have spoken, saying,
Num
14:18 Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness,
forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that will by no means clear
the guilty,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third
and on the fourth generation.
Num
14:19 Pardon, Please, the iniquity of this people according to the
greatness of your loving kindness, and according as you have forgiven
this people, from Egypt even until now.
Num
14:20 Yahweh said, I have pardoned according to your word:
Num
14:21 but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall be
filled with the glory of Yahweh;
Num
14:22 because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs,
which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me
these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;
Num
14:23 surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their
fathers, neither shall any of those who despised me see it:
Num
14:24 but 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.
Num
14:25 Now the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley:
tomorrow turn, and go into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.
Num
14:26 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
Num
14:27 How long shall I bear
with this evil congregation, that murmur against me? I have heard the
murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
Num
14:28 Tell them, As I live, says Yahweh, surely as you have spoken
in my ears, so will I do to you:
Num
14:29 your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who
were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty
years old and upward, who have murmured against me,
Num
14:30 surely you shall not come into the land, concerning which I
swore that I would make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of
Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
Num
14:31 But your little ones, that you said should be a prey, them
will I bring in, and they shall know the land which you have
rejected.
Num
14:32 But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this
wilderness.
Num
14:33 Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty
years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies be
consumed in the wilderness.
Num
14:34 After the number of the days in which you spied out the land,
even forty days, for every day a year, you will bear your iniquities,
even forty years, and you will know my alienation.
Num
14:35 I, Yahweh, have spoken, surely this will I do to all this evil
congregation, who are gathered together against me: in this
wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
Num
14:36 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 against the land,
Num
14:37 even those men who did bring up an evil report of the land,
died by the plague before Yahweh.
Num
14:38 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh,
remained alive of those men who went to spy out the land.
Num
14:39 Moses told these words to all the children of Israel: and the
people mourned greatly.
Num
14:40 They rose up early in the morning, and got them up to the top
of the mountain, saying, Behold, we are here, and will go up to the
place which Yahweh has promised: for we have sinned.
Num
14:41 Moses said, Why now do you disobey the commandment of Yahweh,
seeing it shall not prosper?
Num
14:42 Don't go up, for Yahweh isn't among you; that you not be
struck down before your enemies.
Num
14:43 For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and
you shall fall by the sword: because you are turned back from
following Yahweh, therefore Yahweh will not be with you.
Num
14:44 But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain:
nevertheless the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and Moses, didn't
depart out of the camp.
Num
14:45 Then the Amalekite came down, and the Canaanite who lived in
that mountain, and struck them and beat them down, even to Hormah.
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