{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/web/numbers/14","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-09T21:54:00.625Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"Numbers","bookSlug":"numbers","chapter":14,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":13,"nextChapter":15,"totalChapters":36,"totalVerses":45},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"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!"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"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?|"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"They said one to another, |Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.|"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes:"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"If Yahweh delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"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.|"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"But all the congregation threatened to stone them with stones. The glory of Yahweh appeared in the Tent of Meeting to all the children of Israel."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"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?"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.|"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Moses said to Yahweh, |Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them;"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Now if you killed this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"'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.'"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Now please let the power of the Lord be great, according as you have spoken, saying,"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"'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.'"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Please pardon 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.|"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Yahweh said, |I have pardoned according to your word:"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of Yahweh;"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"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;"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who despised me see it:"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Now the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley: tomorrow turn, and go into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.|"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,"},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"|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."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"Tell them, 'As I live, says Yahweh, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you:"},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"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,"},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"surely you shall not come into the land, concerning which I swore that I would make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness."},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness."},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"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.'"},{"verseNumber":35,"text":"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.|"},{"verseNumber":36,"text":"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,"},{"verseNumber":37,"text":"even those men who did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Yahweh."},{"verseNumber":38,"text":"But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, remained alive of those men who went to spy out the land."},{"verseNumber":39,"text":"Moses told these words to all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly."},{"verseNumber":40,"text":"They rose up early in the morning, and went 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.|"},{"verseNumber":41,"text":"Moses said, |Why now do you disobey the commandment of Yahweh, since it shall not prosper?"},{"verseNumber":42,"text":"Don't go up, for Yahweh isn't among you; that you not be struck down before your enemies."},{"verseNumber":43,"text":"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.|"},{"verseNumber":44,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":45,"text":"Then the Amalekite came down, and the Canaanite who lived in that mountain, and struck them and beat them down, even to Hormah."}],"citation":{"inline":"Numbers 14 (WEB)","markdown":"[Numbers 14](https://primebible.com/web/numbers/14)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/numbers/14 (accessed 2026-06-09)."}}