And we departed from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which you saw, by the way of the mountain of the Amorite, as the Lord our God charged us, and we came as far as Kadesh Barnea.

Behold, the Lord your God has delivered to us the land before you; go up and inherit it as the Lord God of your fathers said to you; fear not, neither be afraid.

And the saying pleased me: and I took of you twelve men; one man from each tribe.

And they took in their hands of the fruit of the land, and brought it to you, and said, The land is good which the Lord our God gives us.

And you murmured in your tents, and said, Because the Lord hated us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites, to destroy us.

And I said to you, Fear not, neither be afraid of them;

and in this wilderness which you saw, by the way of the mountain of the Amorite; how the Lord your God will bear you like a son, as if any man should carry his son, through all the way which you have gone, until you came to this place.

who goes before you in the way to choose you a place, guiding you in the fire by night, showing you the way by which you should go, and a cloud by day.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

And Moses sent them out of the Wilderness of Paran by the word of the Lord; all these [were] the princes of the sons of Israel.

Of the tribe of Simeon, Saphat the son of Suri.

Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.

Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.

Of the tribe of Joseph of the sons of Mannasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.

Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael.

Of the tribe of Gad, Gaddiel the son of Macchi.

And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, Go up by this wilderness; and you shall go up to the mountain,

And what the land is on which they dwell, [whether] it is good or bad; and what the cities are in which these dwell in, whether they dwell in walled or unwalled [cities].

And they went up and surveyed the land from the Wilderness of Zin to Rehob, as men go in to Hamath.

And they came to the valley of the cluster and surveyed it; and they cut down from there a bough and one cluster of grapes upon it, and carried it on poles, and [they took] of the pomegranates and the figs.

And they returned from there, having surveyed the land, after forty days.

And they reported to him, and said, We came into the land into which you sent us, a land flowing with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.

And Amalek dwells in the land toward the south: and the Hittite and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite dwells in the hill country: and the Canaanite dwells by the sea, and by the River Jordan.

But the men that went up together with him said, We shall not go up! For we shall by no means be able to go up against the nation, for it is much stronger than we.

And there we saw the giants; and we were as mere insects in our own sight, and so we were before them.

And all the congregation lifted up their voice and cried; and the people wept all that night.

If only we would have died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we would have died in this wilderness! And why does the Lord bring us into this land to fall in war? Our wives and our children shall be for a prey: now then it is better to return into Egypt.

And all the congregation said to stone them with stones; and the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud on the tabernacle of witness to all the children of Israel.

I will smite them with death, and destroy them; and I will make of you and of your father's house a great nation, and much greater than this.

Moreover all the inhabitants of this land have heard that You are Lord in the midst of this people, who, O Lord, are seen [by them] face to face, and Your cloud rests upon them, and You go before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, and by night in a pillar of fire.

Because the Lord could not bring this people into the land which He swore to them, He has overthrown them in the wilderness.

The Lord [is] longsuffering and merciful, and true, removing transgressions and iniquities and sins, and He shall by no means clear the guilty, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation.

And the Lord said to Moses, I am gracious to them according to your word.

For all the men who see My glory, and the signs which I have done in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and have tempted Me this tenth time, and have not hearkened to My voice,

But My servant Caleb, because there was another spirit in him, and he followed Me, I will bring him into the land into which he entered, and his seed shall inherit it.

And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

Say to them, [As] I live, says the Lord, surely as you spoke into My ears, so will I do to you.

you shall not enter into the land for which I stretched out My hand to establish you upon it; except only Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

And your caracasses shall fall in this wilderness.

According to the number of the days during which you spied the land, forty days, a day for a year, you shall bear your sins forty years, and you shall know My fierce anger.

And the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, and who came and murmured against it to the assembly so as to bring out evil words concerning the land,

And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh [still] lived of those men that went to spy out the land.

And they rose early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, Behold, we that are here will go up to the place of which the Lord has spoken, because we have sinned.

But they disobeyed, and provoked His Holy Spirit; so He turned to be an enemy, He Himself contended against them.

And in this matter you believed not the Lord our God,

who goes before you in the way to choose you a place, guiding you in the fire by night, showing you the way by which you should go, and a cloud by day.

Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in His salvation.

Moreover they despised the desirable land, and did not believe His word.

And they murmured in their tents; they hearkened not to the voice of the Lord.

And to whom did He swear that they would not enter into His rest, except to those who disobeyed?

And we see that they were not able to enter on account of unbelief.

For indeed we have had the gospel preached [to us] just as those also; but the word which they heard did not profit those, not having been mixed with faith in those having heard it.