Matthew(i)
2 they came and spake vnto Moses and Eleazar the preast and vnto the Lordes of the congregacion sayinge.
3 The land of Ataroth & Dibo and Iazer, and Nemrah & Hesbon & Elealeh and Sabam & Nebo and Beon,
4 whiche contrye the Lord smote before the congregacion of Israel: is a land for catel and we thy seruauntes haue catel
5 wherfore (sayde they) yf we haue found grace in thy syghte, let thys lande be geuen vnto thy seruauntes to possesse, & brynge vs not ouer Iordan.
6 And Moses sayd vnto the chyldren of Gad & of Ruben: shall your brethren go to warre and ye tarye here?
7 Wherfore discorage ye the hertes of the chyldren of Israel for to go ouer into the land whych the Lord hath geuen them.
8 This dyd your fathers, when I sent them from Cades barne to se the land.
9 And they went vp euen vnto the ryuer of Escol and sawe the lande, and dyscoraged the hertes of the chyldren of Israell, that they should not go into the land which the Lorde had geuen them.
10 And the Lorde was wroth the same tyme and sware sayinge.
11 None of the men that came out of Egypte from twenty yere olde and aboue, shal se the lande whych I sware vnto Abraham, Isaac and Iacob, because they haue not contynually folowed me:
12 saue Caleb the sonne of Iephune the Kenesite, & Iosua the sonne of Nun, for they haue folowed me continually,
13 And the Lord was angry wyth Israel, & made them wandre in the wyldernesse .xl. yere, vntyl al the generacion that had done euel in the syghte of the Lord were consumed.
14 And beholde, ye are rysen vp in your fathers steade, to the encrease of synfull men, and to augment the fearse wrath of the lord to Israell warde.