was the time of the firstripe grapes. 21) So they went up, and 'spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, to the entering in of Hamath. 22 And they went up by the South, and came unto Hebron; 'and' Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there'. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in 23) Egypt.) And they came unto the

valley of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it upon a staff between two; they brought also of the pomegranates, and of the figs. (24 That place was called the valley

lof Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down 25) from thence. And they returned

from 'spying out! the land at the end1 26 of forty days. 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. 27 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 28) of it. Howbeit the people that dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fenced', and very great: and moreover we saw the children 29 of Anak there. Amalek dwelleth in the land of the South: and the 'Hittite', and the 'Jebusite', and the Amorite', dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanite dwelleth! by the sea, and along by the side of Jordan. 30 And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able 31 to overcome it. But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for (32 they are stronger than we. °And

they brought up an evil report of the land which they had 'spied out unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to Ispy it out, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men 33 of great stature. And there we saw the Nephilim', the sons of Anak, which come of the 'Nephilim': and

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we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight. And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people 2 wept that night. 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 3 died in this wilderness! And wherefore 'doth the LORD bring us unto this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones shall be a prey were it not better for us to 4 return into Egypt? And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt. 5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel. 6 And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that spied out the 7 land, rent their clothes: and they spake unto all the congregation' of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to Ispy it out', is an exceeding good 8 land. If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it unto us; a land which (9 floweth with milk and honey.

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rebel not against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their 'defence is removed from over them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not. 10 But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tent of meeting unto all the children of Israel.

11 And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people despisel me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which 12) I have wrought among them? I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than 13 they. And Moses said unto the

LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear it; for thou broughtest up this people (14) in thy might from among them; and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land they have heard that thou LORD art in the midst of this people; 3 Or, giants

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Heb. shadow.

Ifor thou LORD art seen 1face to face, and thy cloud standeth over them, and thou goest before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar (15 of fire by night. Now if thou shalt

kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of 16 thee will speak, saying, "Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in 17 the wilderness. And now, I pray

thee, let the power of the Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, 18 saying, The LORD is 'slow to anger', and plenteous in' mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and 'that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation. 19 °Pardon, I pray thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and 'according' as thou hast forgiven this people, from 20 Egypt even until now. And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to 21 thy word: but 'in very deed', as I live,

and as all the earth shall be filled (22 with the glory of the LORD; 'because all those men which have seen my glory, and my 'signs', which I 'wrought! in Egypt and in the wilderness, 'yet! have tempted me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; 23 surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that "despised' me see it: 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. Now the 'Amalekite and the 'Canaanite dwell in the valley: to-morrow turn 'yel, and get you into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.

2 Heb. shepherds.

this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured 30 against me, surely1 ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I lifted up my hand that I would' make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of 31 Nun. But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land (32 which ye have 'rejected'. But as for you, your carcases shall fall in this 33 wilderness. And your children shali

be 2wanderers' in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be 'con34) sumed in the wilderness.

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the number of the days in which ye Ispied out the land, even forty days, for levery day a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and 35) ye shall know my 'alienation'. I the LORD have spoken', surely 'this' will I do unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be con36 sumed, and there they shall die. And the men, which Moses sent to 'spy out the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up lan evil report 37 against the land, even those men that did bring up lan evil report of the land, died by the plague before 38 the LORD. But Joshua the son of

Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, Iremained alive of those men that 39 went to 'spy out the land. And Moses told these words' unto all the children of Israel: and the people 40 mourned greatly. And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up to the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath 41 promised: for we have sinned. And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD, 'seeing it shall not prosper? 42 Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smitten 43) down before your enemies. ° For

there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned 'back' from 'following the

3 Or, Ithe revoking↑ of my promise

sojourneth among them; for in respect of all the people it was done 27 unwittingly. And if one person' sin Junwittingly, then he shall offer' a she-goat of the first year for a sin (28 offering. And the priest shall make atonement for the soul that lerreth', when he sinneth unwittingly, before the LORD, to make atonement for him; 29 and 'he' shall be forgiven. Yel shall have one law for him that 'doeth aught unwittingly, for him that is homeborn among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth 30 among them. But the soul that doeth aught with an high hand', whether he be homeborn' or a stranger, the same 'blasphemeth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his 31 people. 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.

32 And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks upon the sab33 bath day. And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation. And they put him in ward, because it had not been' declared what should be done to him. 5)And the LORD said unto Moses, The

man shall surely be put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with 36 stones without the camp. And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses.

37 And the LORD spake unto Moses, 38 saying, 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 leach border a cord of 39 blue: 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 gol not 'about' after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring: that ye may remember and do all my commandments, and 41 be holy unto your God. I am the

1 Or, Itassels in the corners❘ Heb. spy not out.

LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD your God.

161 Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, 'with' Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons 2) of Reuben, took men: and they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the congregation, 'called to the assembly, men of renown: 3 and they assembled 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 lyel up yourselves above the assembly of the LORD? 4 And when Moses heard it, he fell 5 upon his face and he spake unto Korah and unto all his company, saying, 'In the morning the LORD will shew who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near unto him even him whom he 'shall choose

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will he cause to come near unto him. 6 °This do; take you censers, Korah, 7 and all his company; and put fire therein, and put incense upon 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. 8 And Moses said unto Korah, Hear 9 'now', ye sons of Levi: 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 min(10 ister unto them; and that he hath

brought thee near, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee? and seek 11) ye the priesthood also? Therefore

thou and all thy company are gathered together against the LORD: and Aaron, what is 'he' that ye murmur 12 against him? And Moses sent to

call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab and they said. We will not 13 come up: is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land Iflowing with milk and honey, to kill

us in the wilderness, 'but thou 'must needs make thyself also a prince 14 over us? °Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? 15 we will not come up. 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. 16 And Moses said unto Korah, Be thou and all thy congregation before the LORD, thou, and they, and Aaron, to(17 morrow: and take ye every man his censer, and put incense lupon them, and bring ye before the LORD every man his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; thou also, and Aaron, each 18 his censer. "And they took every man his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood lat the door of the 'tent of 'meet19 ing with Moses and Aaron. ° And Korah assembled all the congregation against them unto the door of the 'tent' of 'meeting and the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the congregation.

20 And the LORD spake unto Moses 21 and unto Aaron, saying, Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a 22 moment. 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 23 the congregation? And the LORD 24 spake unto Moses, saying, Speak

unto the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the tabernacle of 25 Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. And

Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel 26 followed him. And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their 27 sins. So they gat them up from

the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood lat! the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little 28 ones. 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. 29 If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the 30 LORD hath not sent me. But if the LORD make a new thing, and the Iground' open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down 'alive into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have 'despised! the (31 LORD. And it came to pass, as he

made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder 32 that was under them: and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their 'households', and all the men that appertained unto 33 Korah, and all their goods.

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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 assemblyí. (34 And all Israel that were round about

them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up. 35)°And fire came 'forth' from the LORD, and 'devoured the two hundred and fifty men that offered 'the' incense.

36 And the LORD spake unto Moses, 37 saying, 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 38 are holy; leven the censers of 5these sinners against their own

lives, and let them 'be made beaten plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are holy': and they shall be a sign unto the children of 39 Israel. And Eleazar the priest took the brasen censers, which they that were burnt had offered; and they 'beat them out for a covering of the 40 altar to be a memorial unto the chil

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dren of Israel, to the end that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to burn incense before the LORD; that he be not as Korah, and as his company as the LORD spake unto him by the hand of Moses.

But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel mur

5 Or, these men who have sinned at the cost of their lives 6 Or, souls