thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it
between two upon a staff; and they brought of the
pomegranates, and of the figs.
04:013:024 The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster
of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.
04:013:025 And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.
04:013:026 And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the
congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of
Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto
all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.
04:013:027 And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither
thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey;
and this is the fruit of it.
04:013:028 Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and
the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the
children of Anak there.
04:013:029 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the
Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the
mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the
coast of Jordan.
04:013:030 And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go
up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome
it.
04:013:031 But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go
up against the people; for they are stronger than we.
04:013:032 And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had
searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land,
through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth
up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in
it are men of a great stature.
04:013:033 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of
the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and
so we were in their sight.
04:014:001 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and
the people wept that night.
04:014:002 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and
against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them,
Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God
we had died in this wilderness!
04:014:003 And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall
by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a
prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
04:014:004 And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let
us return into Egypt.
04:014:005 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the
assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
04:014:006 And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh,
which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:
04:014:007 And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel,
saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an
exceeding good land.
04:014:008 If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this
land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and
honey.
04:014:009 Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people
of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is
departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.
04:014:010 But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the
glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the
congregation before all the children of Israel.
04:014:011 And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people
provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for
all the signs which I have shewed among them?
04:014:012 I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them,
and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
04:014:013 And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear
it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from
among them;)
04:014:014 And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for
they have heard that thou LORD art among this people, that
thou LORD art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth
over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a
pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.
04:014:015 Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the
nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
04:014:016 Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the
land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in
the wilderness.
04:014:017 And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great,
according as thou hast spoken, saying,
04:014:018 The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving
iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the
guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children
unto the third and fourth generation.
04:014:019 Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according
unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven
this people, from Egypt even until now.
04:014:020 And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word:
04:014:021 But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the
glory of the LORD.
04:014:022 Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my
miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have
tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my
voice;
04:014:023 Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their
fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
04:014:024 But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him,
and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land
whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.
04:014:025 (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.)
Tomorrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way
of the Red sea.
04:014:026 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
04:014:027 How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which
murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children
of Israel, which they murmur against me.
04:014:028 Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have
spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
04:014:029 Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were
numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty
years old and upward which have murmured against me.
04:014:030 Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I
sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of
Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
04:014:031 But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them
will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have
despised.
04:014:032 But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this
wilderness.
04:014:033 And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years,
and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the
wilderness.
04:014:034 After the number of the days in which ye searched the land,
even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your
iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of
promise.
04:014:035 I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil
congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this
wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
04:014:036 And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who
returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him,
by bringing up a slander upon the land,
04:014:037 Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the
land, died by the plague before the LORD.
04:014:038 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh,
which were of the men that went to search the land, lived
still.
04:014:039 And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel:
and the people mourned greatly.
04:014:040 And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into
the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go
up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have
sinned.
04:014:041 And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment
of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.
04:014:042 Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not
smitten before your enemies.
04:014:043 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you,
and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away
from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.
04:014:044 But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the
ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out
of the camp.
04:014:045 Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt
in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto
Hormah.
04:015:001 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
04:015:002 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye
be come into the land of your habitations, which I give unto
you,
04:015:003 And will make an offering by fire unto the LORD, a burnt
offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a freewill
offering, or in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet savour
unto the LORD, of the herd or of the flock:
04:015:004 Then shall he that offereth his offering unto the LORD bring a
meat offering of a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth
part of an hin of oil.
04:015:005 And the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering
shalt thou prepare with the burnt offering or sacrifice, for
one lamb.
04:015:006 Or for a ram, thou shalt prepare for a meat offering two tenth
deals of flour mingled with the third part of an hin of oil.
04:015:007 And for a drink offering thou shalt offer the third part of an
hin of wine, for a sweet savour unto the LORD.
04:015:008 And when thou preparest a bullock for a burnt offering, or for
a sacrifice in performing a vow, or peace offerings unto the
LORD:
04:015:009 Then shall he bring with a bullock a meat offering of three
tenth deals of flour mingled with half an hin of oil.
04:015:010 And thou shalt bring for a drink offering half an hin of wine,
for an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
04:015:011 Thus shall it be done for one bullock, or for one ram, or for
a lamb, or a kid.
04:015:012 According to the number that ye shall prepare, so shall ye do
to every one according to their number.
04:015:013 All that are born of the country shall do these things after
this manner, in offering an offering made by fire, of a sweet
savour unto the LORD.
04:015:014 And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever be among you
in your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire,
of a sweet savour unto the LORD; as ye do, so he shall do.
04:015:015 One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation, and
also for the stranger that sojourneth with you, an ordinance
for ever in your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger
be before the LORD.
04:015:016 One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger
that sojourneth with you.
04:015:017 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
04:015:018 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye
come into the land whither I bring you,
04:015:019 Then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land,
ye shall offer up an heave offering unto the LORD.
04:015:020 Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough for an
heave offering: as ye do the heave offering of the
threshingfloor, so shall ye heave it.
04:015:021 Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the LORD an
heave offering in your generations.
04:015:022 And if ye have erred, and not observed all these commandments,
which the LORD hath spoken unto Moses,
04:015:023 Even all that the LORD hath commanded you by the hand of
Moses, from the day that the LORD commanded Moses, and
henceforward among your generations;
04:015:024 Then it shall be, if ought be committed by ignorance without
the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation
shall offer one young bullock for a burnt offering, for a
sweet savour unto the LORD, with his meat offering, and his
drink offering, according to the manner, and one kid of the
goats for a sin offering.
04:015:025 And the priest shall make an atonement for all the
congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall be
forgiven them; for it is ignorance: and they shall bring their
offering, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD, and their
sin offering before the LORD, for their ignorance:
04:015:026 And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children
of Israel, and the stranger that sojourneth among them; seeing
all the people were in ignorance.
04:015:027 And if any soul sin through ignorance, then he shall bring a
she goat of the first year for a sin offering.
04:015:028 And the priest shall make an atonement for the soul that
sinneth ignorantly, when he sinneth by ignorance before the
LORD, to make an atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven
him.
04:015:029 Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance,
both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and
for the stranger that sojourneth among them.
04:015:030 But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be
born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the
LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
04:015:031 Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken
his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his
iniquity shall be upon him.
04:015:032 And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they
found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.
04:015:033 And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto
Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.
04:015:034 And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what
should be done to him.
04:015:035 And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to
death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones
without the camp.
04:015:036 And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and
stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded
Moses.
04:015:037 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
04:015:038 Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make
them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their
generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders
a ribband of blue:
04:015:039 And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon
it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do
them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own
eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:
04:015:040 That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy
unto your God.
04:015:041 I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of
Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD your God.
04:016:001 Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of
Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the
son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men:
04:016:002 And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of
Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous
in the congregation, men of renown:
04:016:003 And they gathered themselves together against Moses and
against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you,
seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and
the LORD is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves
above the congregation of the LORD?
04:016:004 And when Moses heard it, he fell upon his face:
04:016:005 And he spake unto Korah and unto all his company, saying, Even
to morrow the LORD will shew who are his, and who is holy; and
will cause him to come near unto him: even him whom he hath
chosen will he cause to come near unto him.
04:016:006 This do; Take you censers, Korah, and all his company;
04:016:007 And put fire therein, and put incense in them before the LORD
to morrow: and it shall be that the man whom the LORD doth
choose, he shall be holy: ye take too much upon you, ye sons
of Levi.
04:016:008 And Moses said unto Korah, Hear, I pray you, ye sons of Levi:
04:016:009 Seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel
hath separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring
you near to himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the
LORD, and to stand before the congregation to minister unto
them?
04:016:010 And he hath brought thee near to him, and all thy brethren the
sons of Levi with thee: and seek ye the priesthood also?
04:016:011 For which cause both thou and all thy company are gathered
together against the LORD: and what is Aaron, that ye murmur
against him?
04:016:012 And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab:
which said, We will not come up:
04:016:013 Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land
that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the
wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over
us?
04:016:014 Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth
with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and
vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will
not come up.
04:016:015 And Moses was very wroth, and said unto the LORD, Respect not
thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them,
neither have I hurt one of them.
04:016:016 And Moses said unto Korah, Be thou and all thy company before
the LORD, thou, and they, and Aaron, to morrow:
04:016:017 And take every man his censer, and put incense in them, and
bring ye before the LORD every man his censer, two hundred and
fifty censers; thou also, and Aaron, each of you his censer.
04:016:018 And they took every man his censer, and put fire in them, and
laid incense thereon, and stood in the door of the tabernacle
of the congregation with Moses and Aaron.
04:016:019 And Korah gathered all the congregation against them unto the
door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the glory of
the LORD appeared unto all the congregation.
04:016:020 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
04:016:021 Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may
consume them in a moment.
04:016:022 And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of
the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be
wroth with all the congregation?
04:016:023 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
04:016:024 Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the
tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.
04:016:025 And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram; and the
elders of Israel followed him.
04:016:026 And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray
you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of
their's, lest ye be consumed in all their sins.
04:016:027 So they gat up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and
Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and
stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their
sons, and their little children.
04:016:028 And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent
me to do all these works; for I have not done them of mine own
mind.
04:016:029 If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be
visited after the visitation of all men; then the LORD hath
not sent me.
04:016:030 But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her
mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them,
and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand
that these men have provoked the LORD.
04:016:031 And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all
these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under
them:
04:016:032 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and
their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and
all their goods.
04:016:033 They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into
the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished
from among the congregation.
04:016:034 And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of
them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.
04:016:035 And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two
hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
04:016:036 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
04:016:037 Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take
up the censers out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire
yonder; for they are hallowed.
04:016:038 The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them
make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they
offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and
they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.
04:016:039 And Eleazar the priest took the brasen censers, wherewith they
that were burnt had offered; and they were made broad plates
for a covering of the altar:
04:016:040 To be a memorial unto the children of Israel, that no
stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to
offer incense before the LORD; that he be not as Korah, and as
his company: as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses.
04:016:041 But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of
Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye
have killed the people of the LORD.
04:016:042 And it came to pass, when the congregation was gathered
against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the
tabernacle of the congregation: and, behold, the cloud covered
it, and the glory of the LORD appeared.
04:016:043 And Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the
congregation.
04:016:044 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
04:016:045 Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume
them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.
04:016:046 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein
from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto
the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is
wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun.
04:016:047 And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of
the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the
people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the
people.
04:016:048 And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague
was stayed.
04:016:049 Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and
seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of
Korah.
04:016:050 And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tabernacle
of the congregation: and the plague was stayed.
04:017:001 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
04:017:002 Speak unto the children of Israel, and take of every one of
them a rod according to the house of their fathers, of all
their princes according to the house of their fathers twelve
rods: write thou every man's name upon his rod.
04:017:003 And thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi: for
one rod shall be for the head of the house of their fathers.
04:017:004 And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the
congregation before the testimony, where I will meet with you.
04:017:005 And it shall come to pass, that the man's rod, whom I shall
choose, shall blossom: and I will make to cease from me the
murmurings of the children of Israel, whereby they murmur
against you.
04:017:006 And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, and every one of
their princes gave him a rod apiece, for each prince one,
according to their fathers' houses, even twelve rods: and the
rod of Aaron was among their rods.
04:017:007 And Moses laid up the rods before the LORD in the tabernacle
of witness.
04:017:008 And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the
tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the
house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed
blossoms, and yielded almonds.
04:017:009 And Moses brought out all the rods from before the LORD unto
all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every
man his rod.
04:017:010 And the LORD said unto Moses, Bring Aaron's rod again before
the testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels; and
thou shalt quite take away their murmurings from me, that they
die not.
04:017:011 And Moses did so: as the LORD commanded him, so did he.
04:017:012 And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold,
we die, we perish, we all perish.
04:017:013 Whosoever cometh any thing near unto the tabernacle of the
LORD shall die: shall we be consumed with dying?
04:018:001 And the LORD said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy
father's house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the
sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the
iniquity of your priesthood.