Numbers 14:10-41 But the whole congregation desired to stone them to death. Suddenly, the glory of the LORD appeared at the tent of meeting, to all the Israelites.

VIN⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁰ But the whole congregation desired to stone them to death. Suddenly, the glory of the LORD appeared at the tent of meeting, to all the Israelites. ¹¹ The LORD 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? ¹² I will smite them with the pestilence, and destroy them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they. ¹³ Moses said to the LORD, "Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them; ¹⁴ And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that you LORD are among this people, that you LORD are seen face to face, and that your cloud stands over them, and that you go before them, by daytime in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night. ¹⁵ "But if you kill all these people at the same time the nations who have heard these reports about you will say, ¹⁶ "the LORD was not able to bring these people into the land he promised them, so he slaughtered them in the desert. ¹⁷ Now, let the power of the LORD be magnified just as you've promised saying: ¹⁸ 'the LORD is slow to anger and great of loyal love, forgiving sin and rebellion; but surely he leaves nothing unpunished, visiting the sin of the fathers on the sons to the third and fourth generations.' ¹⁹ "By your great love, please forgive these people's sins, as you have forgiven them from the time they left Egypt until now." ²⁰ the LORD said: "I forgive them, as you have asked. ²¹ But as I live, and my name liveth, and the glory of the Lord shall fill the whole earth; ²² For all the men having seen my glory and my signs which I did in Egypt and in the desert, and they will try me this ten times, they heard not to my voice. ²³ they will not see the land that I swore by oath to their ancestors, and all those who despised me will not see it. ²⁴ »My servant Caleb has a different attitude and has wholeheartedly followed me, I will bring him to the land he already explored. His descendants will possess it. ²⁵ And the Amalekites and the Canaanites live in the valleys; tomorrow turn and set out for the desert by way of the Red Sea." ²⁶ Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron: ²⁷ How long doth this wicked multitude murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. ²⁸ Say to them, 'Surely as I live,' declares the LORD, 'just as you spoke in my hearing, so I will do to you; ²⁹ in this desert your corpses will fall, and all your counted ones, according to all your number, from twenty years old and above who grumbled against me. ³⁰ none of you, shall enter into the land, as to which I uplifted my hand to give you an abode therein,—save Caleb son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, son of Nun: ³¹ But your little children, whom you said would be plunder, I will bring them, and they will know the land that you rejected. ³² But, your own dead bodies, shall fall in this desert; ³³ "'Your children will be shepherds in the desert for forty years. They will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies dead in the desert. ³⁴ "'You explored the land for forty days. So for forty years, one year for each day, you will suffer for your sins and know what it means for me to be against you.' ³⁵ I, the LORD, have spoken; I will surely do this to all this evil community who has banded together against me. In this desert they will come to an end, and there they will die." ³⁶ As for the men whom Moses sent to explore the land, who returned and made the community grumble against him by spreading a report over the land, ³⁷ the men who spread the evil report of the land died by the plague before the LORD. ³⁸ Of all the men who went to explore the land, only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh survived. ³⁹ And Moses spoke words to all the Israelites, and the people mourned greatly. ⁴⁰ Early the next morning they headed into the mountains. They said: "We have sinned. Now we will go to the place the LORD promised." ⁴¹ Moses asked: "Why are you disobeying the LORD's command? Your plan will not work!