Num 14:2 All the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and 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 is the Lord bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become plunder; would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?"

Num 14:4 So they said to one another, "Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt."

Num 14:5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces in the presence of all the assembly of the congregation of the sons of Israel.

Num 14:6 Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, of those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes;

Num 14:7 and they spoke to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, saying, "The land which we passed through to spy out is an exceedingly good land.

Num 14:8 If the Lord is pleased with 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 do not rebel against the Lord; and do not fear the people of the land, for they will be our prey. Their protection has been removed from them, and the Lord is with us; do not fear them."

Num 14:10 But all the congregation said to stone them with stones. Then the glory of the Lord appeared in the tent of meeting to all the sons of Israel.

Num 14:11 The Lord said to Moses, "How long will this people spurn Me? And how long will they not believe in Me, despite all the signs which I have performed in their midst?

Num 14:12 I will smite them with pestilence and dispossess them, and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they."

Num 14:13 But Moses said to the Lord, "Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your strength You brought up this people from their midst,

Num 14:14 and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that You, O Lord, are in the midst of this people, for You, O Lord, are seen eye to eye, while 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 slay this people as one man, then the nations who have heard of Your fame will say,

Num 14:16 'Because the Lord could not bring this people into the land which He promised them by oath, therefore He slaughtered them in the wilderness.'

Num 14:17 But now, I pray, let the power of the Lord be great, just as You have declared,

Num 14:18 'The Lord is slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generations.'

Num 14:19 Pardon, I pray, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of Your lovingkindness, just as You also have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now."

Num 14:20 So the Lord said, "I have pardoned them according to your word;

Num 14:21 but indeed, as I live, all the earth will be filled with the glory of the Lord.

Num 14:22 Surely all the men who have seen My glory and My signs which I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have put Me to the test these ten times and have not listened to My voice,

Num 14:23 shall by no means see the land which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who spurned Me see it.

Num 14:24 But My servant Caleb, because he has had a different spirit and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land which he entered, and his descendants shall take possession of it.

Num 14:25 Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites live in the valleys; turn tomorrow and set out to the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea."

Num 14:26 The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

Num 14:27 "How long shall I bear with this evil congregation who are grumbling against Me? I have heard the complaints of the sons of Israel, which they are making against Me.

Num 14:28 Say to them, 'As I live,' says the Lord, 'just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will surely do to you;

Num 14:29 your corpses will fall in this wilderness, even all your numbered men, according to your complete number from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against Me.

Num 14:30 Surely you shall not come into the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.

Num 14:31 Your children, however, whom you said would become a prey--I will bring them in, and they will know the land which you have rejected.

Num 14:32 But as for you, your corpses will fall in this wilderness.

Num 14:33 Your sons shall be shepherds for forty years in the wilderness, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your corpses lie in the wilderness.

Num 14:34 According to the number of days which you spied out the land, forty days, for every day you shall bear your guilt a year, even forty years, and you will know My opposition.

Num 14:35 I, the Lord, have spoken, surely this I will do to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. In this wilderness they shall be destroyed, and there they will die.'"

Num 14:36 As for the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land and who returned and made all the congregation grumble against him by bringing out a bad report concerning the land,

Num 14:37 even those men who brought out the very bad report of the land died by a plague before the Lord.

Num 14:38 But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive out of those men who went to spy out the land.

Num 14:39 When Moses spoke these words to all the sons of Israel, the people mourned greatly.

Num 14:40 In the morning, however, they rose up early and went up to the ridge of the hill country, saying, "Here we are; we have indeed sinned, but we will go up to the place which the Lord has promised."

Num 14:41 But Moses said, "Why then are you transgressing the commandment of the Lord, when it will not succeed?

Num 14:42 Do not go up, or you will be struck down before your enemies, for the Lord is not among you.

Num 14:43 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites will be there in front of you, and you will fall by the sword, inasmuch as you have turned back from following the Lord. And the Lord will not be with you."

Num 14:44 But they went up heedlessly to the ridge of the hill country; neither the ark of the covenant of the Lord nor Moses left the camp.

Num 14:45 Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country came down, and struck them and beat them down as far as Hormah.

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Num 15:1 Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

Num 15:2 "Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, 'When you enter the land where you are to live, which I am giving you,

Num 15:3 then make an offering by fire to the Lord, a burnt offering or a sacrifice to fulfill a special vow, or as a freewill offering or in your appointed times, to make a soothing aroma to the Lord, from the herd or from the flock.

Num 15:4 The one who presents his offering shall present to the Lord a grain offering of one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with one-fourth of a hin of oil,

Num 15:5 and you shall prepare wine for the drink offering, one-fourth of a hin, with the burnt offering or for the sacrifice, for each lamb.

Num 15:6 Or for a ram you shall prepare as a grain offering two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with one-third of a hin of oil;

Num 15:7 and for the drink offering you shall offer one-third of a hin of wine as a soothing aroma to the Lord.

Num 15:8 When you prepare a bull as a burnt offering or a sacrifice, to fulfill a special vow, or for peace offerings to the Lord,

Num 15:9 then you shall offer with the bull a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with one-half a hin of oil;

Num 15:10 and you shall offer as the drink offering one-half a hin of wine as an offering by fire, as a soothing aroma to the Lord.

Num 15:11 'Thus it shall be done for each ox, or for each ram, or for each of the male lambs, or of the goats.

Num 15:12 According to the number that you prepare, so you shall do for everyone according to their number.

Num 15:13 All who are native shall do these things in this manner, in presenting an offering by fire, as a soothing aroma to the Lord.

Num 15:14 If an alien sojourns with you, or one who may be among you throughout your generations, and he wishes to make an offering by fire, as a soothing aroma to the Lord, just as you do so he shall do.

Num 15:15 As for the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the alien who sojourns with you, a perpetual statute throughout your generations; as you are, so shall the alien be before the Lord.

Num 15:16 There is to be one law and one ordinance for you and for the alien who sojourns with you.'"

Num 15:17 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

Num 15:18 "Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, 'When you enter the land where I bring you,

Num 15:19 then it shall be, that when you eat of the food of the land, you shall lift up an offering to the Lord.

Num 15:20 Of the first of your dough you shall lift up a cake as an offering; as the offering of the threshing floor, so you shall lift it up.

Num 15:21 From the first of your dough you shall give to the Lord an offering throughout your generations.

Num 15:22 'But when you unwittingly fail and do not observe all these commandments, which the Lord has spoken to Moses,

Num 15:23 even all that the Lord has commanded you through Moses, from the day when the Lord gave commandment and onward throughout your generations,

Num 15:24 then it shall be, if it is done unintentionally, without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one bull for a burnt offering, as a soothing aroma to the Lord, with its grain offering and its drink offering, according to the ordinance, and one male goat for a sin offering.

Num 15:25 Then the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the sons of Israel, and they will be forgiven; for it was an error, and they have brought their offering, an offering by fire to the Lord, and their sin offering before the Lord, for their error.

Num 15:26 So all the congregation of the sons of Israel will be forgiven, with the alien who sojourns among them, for it happened to all the people through error.

Num 15:27 'Also if one person sins unintentionally, then he shall offer a one year old female goat for a sin offering.

Num 15:28 The priest shall make atonement before the Lord for the person who goes astray when he sins unintentionally, making atonement for him that he may be forgiven.

Num 15:29 You shall have one law for him who does anything unintentionally, for him who is native among the sons of Israel and for the alien who sojourns among them.

Num 15:30 But the person who does anything defiantly, whether he is native or an alien, that one is blaspheming the Lord; and that person shall be cut off from among his people.

Num 15:31 Because he has despised the word of the Lord and has broken His commandment, that person shall be completely cut off; his guilt will be on him.'"

Num 15:32 Now while the sons of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering wood on the sabbath day.

Num 15:33 Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation;

Num 15:34 and they put him in custody because it had not been declared what should be done to him.

Num 15:35 Then the Lord said to Moses, "The man shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp."

Num 15:36 So all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death with stones, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Num 15:37 The Lord also spoke to Moses, saying,

Num 15:38 "Speak to the sons of Israel, and tell them that they shall make for themselves tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and that they shall put on the tassel of each corner a cord of blue.

Num 15:39 It shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the Lord, so as to do them and not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you played the harlot,

Num 15:40 so that you may remember to do all My commandments and be holy to your God.

Num 15:41 I am the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt to be your God; I am the Lord your God."

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Psa 90:1 Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations.

Psa 90:2 Before the mountains were born Or You gave birth to the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.

Psa 90:3 You turn man back into dust And say, "Return, O children of men. "

Psa 90:4 For a thousand years in Your sight Are like yesterday when it passes by, Or as a watch in the night.

Psa 90:5 You have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep; In the morning they are like grass which sprouts anew.

Psa 90:6 In the morning it flourishes and sprouts anew; Toward evening it fades and withers away.

Psa 90:7 For we have been consumed by Your anger And by Your wrath we have been dismayed.

Psa 90:8 You have placed our iniquities before You, Our secret sins in the light of Your presence.

Psa 90:9 For all our days have declined in Your fury; We have finished our years like a sigh.

Psa 90:10 As for the days of our life, they contain seventy years, Or if due to strength, eighty years, Yet their pride is but labor and sorrow; For soon it is gone and we fly away.

Psa 90:11 Who understands the power of Your anger And Your fury, according to the fear that is due You?

Psa 90:12 So teach us to number our days, That we may present to You a heart of wisdom.

Psa 90:13 Do return, O Lord; how long will it be? And be sorry for Your servants.

Psa 90:14 O satisfy us in the morning with Your lovingkindness, That we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.

Psa 90:15 Make us glad according to the days You have afflicted us, And the years we have seen evil.

Psa 90:16 Let Your work appear to Your servants And Your majesty to their children.

Psa 90:17 Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us; And confirm for us the work of our hands; Yes, confirm the work of our hands.