1 And the whole assembly lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron; and the whole assembly said to them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or in this wilderness would that we had died!
3 And why is Jehovah bringing us to this land that we may fall by the sword, that our wives and our little ones may become a prey? Is it not better for us to return to Egypt?
4 And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return to Egypt.
5 Then Moses and Aaron fell upon their faces before the whole congregation of the assembly of the children of Israel.
6 And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, of them that searched out the land, rent their garments.
7 And they spoke to the whole assembly of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it out, is a very, very good land.
8 If Jehovah delight in us, he will bring us into this land, and give it us, a land that flows with milk and honey;
9 only rebel not against Jehovah; and fear not the people of the land; for they shall be our food. Their defence is departed from them, and Jehovah is with us: fear them not.
10 And the whole assembly said that they should be stoned with stones. And the glory of Jehovah appeared in the tent of meeting to all the children of Israel.
11 And Jehovah said to Moses, How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe me, for all the signs which I have done 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 And Moses said to Jehovah, Then the Egyptians will hear it; for in thy might thou broughtest up this people from the midst of them;
14 and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land, {who} have heard that thou, Jehovah, art in the midst of this people, that thou, Jehovah, lettest thyself be seen eye to eye, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night;
15 if thou now slayest this people as one man, then the nations that have heard thy fame will speak, saying,
16 Because Jehovah was not able to bring this people into the land that he had sworn unto them, he has therefore slain them in the wilderness.
17 And now, I beseech thee, let the power of the Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,
18 Jehovah is slow to anger, and abundant in goodness, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but by no means clearing {the guilty}, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and fourth {generation}.
19 Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of thy loving-kindness, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
20 And Jehovah said, I have pardoned according to thy word.
21 But as surely as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of Jehovah!
22 for all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice,
23 shall in no wise see the land which I did swear unto their fathers: none of them that despised me shall see it.
24 But my servant Caleb, because he hath another spirit in him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he came; and his seed shall possess it.
25 (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valley.) To-morrow turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness, on the way to the Red sea.
26 And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
27 How long {shall I bear} with this evil assembly, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
28 Say unto them, As surely as I live, saith Jehovah, if I do not do unto you as ye have spoken in mine ears!
29 In this wilderness shall your carcases fall; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number from twenty years old and upwards, who have murmured against me,
30 shall in no wise come into the land, concerning which I have lifted up my hand to make you dwell in it; save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
31 But your little ones, of whom ye said they should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land that ye have despised.
32 And as to you, your carcases shall fall in this wilderness.
33 And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
34 After the number of the days in which ye have searched out the land, forty days, each day for a year shall ye bear your iniquities forty years, and ye shall know mine estrangement {from you}.
35 I Jehovah have spoken; I will surely do it unto all this evil assembly which have gathered together against me! in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
36 And the men whom Moses had sent to search out the land, who returned, and made the whole assembly to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report upon the land,
37 even those men who had brought up an evil report upon the land, died by a plague before Jehovah.
38 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, lived still of the men that had gone to search out the land.
39 And Moses told all these sayings to all the children of Israel; then the people mourned greatly.
40 And they rose up early in the morning, and went up to the hill-top, saying, Here are we, and we will go up to the place of which Jehovah has spoken; for we have sinned.
41 And Moses said, Why now do ye transgress the commandment of Jehovah? but it shall not prosper!
42 Go not up, for Jehovah is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies;
43 for the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword; for as ye have turned away from Jehovah, Jehovah will not be with you.
44 Yet they presumed to go up to the hill-top; but the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, and Moses, did not depart from the midst of the camp.
45 And the Amalekites and the Canaanites who dwelt on that hill, came down and smote them, and cut them to pieces, as far as Hormah.
1 当时， 全体会众大声喧嚷； 那夜众民都哭号。
2 以色列人向摩西和亚伦发怨言； 全体会众都对他们说： "但愿我们早死在埃及地， 或死在这旷野。
3 耶和华为什么把我们领到这地来， 死在刀剑之下呢？我们的妻子和孩子要被掳掠。我们回埃及去， 岂不更好吗？"
4 于是他们彼此说： "我们另立一个首领， 回埃及去吧。"
5 摩西和亚伦就俯伏在以色列全体会众面前。
6 窥探那地的人中， 有嫩的儿子约书亚和耶孚尼的儿子迦勒； 他们撕裂衣服，
7 对以色列全体会众说： "我们去窥探的那地， 是十分美好的地方。
8 耶和华若是喜悦我们， 就必把我们领进那地， 把那地赐给我们， 那地原是流奶与蜜的地。
9 只要你们不背叛耶和华， 就不必怕那地的人， 因为他们是我们的食物； 荫庇他们的， 已经离开他们了， 耶和华却与我们同在； 不要怕他们。"
10 全体会众都说要用石头打死他们二人。这时， 耶和华的荣光在会幕中向以色列众人显现。
11 耶和华对摩西说： "这民藐视我要到几时呢？我虽然在他们中间行了这些神迹， 他们还是不信我要到几时呢？
12 我要用瘟疫击杀他们， 除灭他们； 我要使你成为大国， 比他们还强。"
13 摩西对耶和华说： "这样埃及人必听见这事， 因为你曾用大能， 把这民从他们中间领上来；
14 埃及人也必告诉那地的居民。那地的居民也曾听见你耶和华是在这人民中间， 你耶和华曾面对面的向人显现， 你的云彩常停在他们上面； 日间你在云柱中， 夜间你在火柱中， 走在他们前面。
15 现在如果你把这人民杀死， 像杀死一人， 那些听见你名声的万国就必议论说：
16 ‘因为耶和华不能把这民领进他向他们起誓应许的地， 所以在旷野把他们杀了。’
17 现在求主大发能力， 照着你说过的话：
18 ‘耶和华不轻易发怒， 且有丰盛的慈爱； 他赦免罪孽和过犯； 绝不以有罪的为无罪， 必追讨罪孽， 自父到子， 直到三四代。’
19 求你照着你的大慈爱， 饶恕这人民的罪孽， 好像你从埃及直到现在， 常赦免这人民一样。"
20 耶和华说： "我就照着你的话， 赦免他们；
21 但是， 我指着我的永生起誓， 全地要被耶和华的荣耀充满。
22 这些见过我的荣耀， 和我在埃及与旷野所行的神迹的人， 仍然试探了我这十次， 不听从我的话；
23 他们决不得看见我向他们的祖宗起誓应许之地； 藐视我的， 一个也不能看见那地。
24 但是我的仆人迦勒， 因他另有一个心志， 专心跟从我， 我必把他领进他去过的那地； 他的子孙也必得着那地为业。
25 现在亚玛力人和迦南人住在山谷中， 明天你们要回转， 从到红海路上， 起行到旷野去。"
26 耶和华吩咐摩西和亚伦说：
27 "这恶会众向我发怨言要到几时呢？以色列人向我所发的怨言， 我都听见了。
28 你要对他们说： ‘耶和华说， 我指着我的永生起誓， 我必照着你们所说给我听的， 对待你们：
29 你们的尸体必倒在这旷野； 你们中间被数点过的， 就是按着你们的数目， 从二十岁以上， 向我发过怨言的，
30 都不得进入我起誓给你们居住的那地； 只有耶孚尼的儿子迦勒和嫩的儿子约书亚才可以进去。
31 但是你们的孩子， 就是你们所说他们必被掳掠的， 我要把他们领进去， 他们必得着你们厌弃的那地。
32 至于你们， 你们的尸体必倒在这旷野。
33 你们的儿女必在旷野飘流四十年， 担当你们背信之罪， 直到你们的尸体在旷野都灭尽了。
34 照着你们窥探那地的日数共四十天， 一天算一年， 你们要担当罪孽四十年， 你们就知道我为什么与你们作对。’
35 我耶和华已经说了， 我必要这样对待这聚集反抗我的恶会众； 他们要在这旷野灭尽， 在这里死亡。"
36 摩西派去窥探那地的人回来， 因为带回有关那地的恶信， 以致全体会众都向摩西发怨言，
37 这些带回有关那地的恶信的人， 都遭受瘟疫死在耶和华面前。
38 只有嫩的儿子约书亚和耶孚尼的儿子迦勒， 仍然活着。
39 摩西把这些话告诉以色列众人， 他们就非常悲哀。
40 他们清早起来， 上山顶去， 说： "我们在这里； 我们要上耶和华应许的地方去， 因为我们犯了罪。"
41 摩西说： "你们为什么又违背耶和华的命令呢？这事必不能成功。
42 你们不要上去， 因为耶和华不在你们中间， 免得你们在仇敌面前被杀败。
43 因为亚玛力人和迦南人都在那里， 在你们面前， 你们必倒在刀下； 因为你们转离不跟随耶和华， 耶和华不与你们同在。"
44 他们却擅自上山顶去， 但是耶和华的约柜和摩西并没有离开营地。
45 于是， 亚玛力人和住在那山上的迦南人就下来， 击杀他们， 粉碎他们， 直到何珥玛。