35. dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, whether they be few or many; 19 and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad; and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in camps, or in strong holds; 20 and e Neh. 9. 25, what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time 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 Ha22 And they went up 1by He Ezek. 34. d Deut. 31. 6, 7, 23. e ch. 20. 1 & 33. 36 & 34. 3. с Josh. 15. 1. math. Josh. 19. 28 (?). g ch. 34. 8. ch. 21. 1. Josh. 15. 19. Judg. 1. 15. h See Josh. 14. 15. 15.14. Judg. 1.10. Deut. 1. 28 j ver. 33. & 2.10 & 9. 2. Josh. 11. 21, 22. Ps. 78. 12, fai. 19. 11. 43. 13 & 30. 4. Ezek. 30. 14. 1 ch. 32. 9. 25. 16 i a the South, and came unto a ver. 22, 29. bron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) 23 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 of 2 Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from thence. 25 And they returned from Deut. 1.24, spying out the land at the end of forty days. 26 And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness m ch. 20. 1, 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 p Deut.1.28 of it. 28P Howbeit the people that dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fenced, and very great: and moreover we saw the children q ch. 14. 43. of Anak there. 29 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. Cp. ch. 14. 30 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. 31'But Deut. 12 the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the & 32.8 & 33. 36. Deut. 1. 19. Josh. 14. 6, 7. n See Ex. 3. 8. . Deut. 1.25. people; for they are stronger than we. 32 And they brought up an ch. 14.36, evil report of the land which they had spied out unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and "all the people Cp. Amos that we saw in it are men of great stature. 33 And there we saw the 3w Nephilim, the sons of Anak, which come of the "Nephilim: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight. 1 And all the congregation 14 lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. 2 And all the children of Is rael 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 a would God we had died in this wilderness! 3 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 return into Egypt? 4 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 land, rent their clothes: 7 and they spake unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceeding good land. 8 If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it unto us; a land which floweth with milk and honey. 9 Only 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. Deut. 1.2 $9.21 & 106.24. Heb. 3. 18. Cp. John 12 37. Ex. 2.10 Cp. Deut. Ex. 2. 12. 9.29 & Ps. 106. & Ezek. 20. 2, 14. Josh. 2.9. TM See Ex. 13.21. Dent. 9. w believe in me, for all the signs which I have wrought among them? 12 I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they. 13 Ånd 'Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear it; for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them; 14 and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: Ex. 15. 14. they have heard that thou LORD art in the midst of this people; for 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 of fire by night. 15 Now if thou shalt kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying, 16 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. 17 And now, I pray thee, let the power of the Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying, 18 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 generEx. 34.9 ation. 19* Pardon, I pray thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and P according as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now. 20 And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word: 21 but in very deed, as I live, and John as all the earth shall be filled with P219 the glory of the LORD; 22 because Hab214 all those men which have seen my Cp. Josh. 7.9. z See Ex. 34.6, 7. y See Ex. 20.5. & 16.45. P. 23. Cp. James 14-16 d Deut. 1. 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: 24 but my servantCaleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath ch 12 followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it. Ter. 445. 25 Now the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley: to1 Heb. eye to eye. 2 Heb. shepherds. 26 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 27 How long shall I bear with this evil con- & ver. 35. gregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me. 28 Say unto them, "As I live, saith the ver.21.2 ch. 26. 65. LORD, surely "as ye have spoken n Cp. ver. 2. in mine ears, so will I do to you: 29°your carcases shall fall in this 01 Cor.10.5. wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years ch. 1.3. old and upward, which have murmured against me, 30 surely ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I lifted up my hand that see Gen. I would make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. 31 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 rejected. 32 But u Ps. 106. 24. as for you, your carcases shall fall in this wilderness. 33 And your children shall be 2 wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be consumed in the wilder ness. 34" After the number of the days in which ye spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my a alienation. 35I the LORD have spoken, surely this will I do unto all this evil congre- e ver. 27. gation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die. 36 d And the men, which deh. 13. 32. 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, 37 even those men that did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before the LORD. 38 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, remained alive of those men that went to spy out the land. 39 And Moses told these words unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly. 40 And Ex. 33. 4. they rose up early in the morning, CHAP. 14, v. 40.] A Deut. 1. 41. 24. 20. j Deut. 1. 42. 31. 17. See ch. 13. NUMBERS. 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 promised: for we i Cp. 2 Chr. have sinned. 41And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD, seeing it shall not prosper? 42 Go not Cp. Deut. up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smitten down before your enemies. 43 For there 1 ver. 25, 45. the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and ye shall fall by the sword because ye are turned back from following the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with 44 But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain: Cp.1 Sam. nevertheless "the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp. 45 Then "the Amalekite came down, and the Canaanite which dwelt in that mountain, and smote them and beat them down, even unto P Hormah. 29. m Deut. 1. 43. 4.3. o ver. 43. Cp. Deut. 1.44. pch. 21. 3. Judg. 1.17. q ver. 18. Deut. 26. 1. Lev. 22. 21 & 27.2. t ch. 28. 19, 27. u Ex. 29. 18. Lev: 4.31. 21. Lev. 2. 1 & 6. 14. 1 And the LORD spake unto 15 Moses, saying, 2 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, 3 and will make an offering by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice, 18 to accomplish a vow, or as a free will offering, or 'in your set feasts, to make a "sweet savour unto the LORD, of the herd, or of the flock: 4 then "shall he that offereth his oblation offer unto the LORD " a meal offering of a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mingled with the Ex. 29.40. fourth part of an hin of oil: 5"and Lev. 23.13. wine for the drink offering, the Lev. 14. 10. fourth part of an hin, shalt thou prepare with the burnt offering or for the sacrifice, for each lamb. 2 ch. 28. 12, 6 Or for a ram, thou shalt prepare for a meal offering two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mingled with the third part of an hin of oil: 7 and for the drink offering thou shalt offer the third part of an hin of wine, of a "sweet savour unto the LORD. 8 And when thou preparest a bullock for a burnt offering, or for a sacrifice, 18 to accomplish a Lev. 7. 11. a VOW, or for a peace offerings unto the LORD: 9 then shall he offer with the bullock a meal offering of three tenth parts of an ephah of x ch. 28. 5. y ch. 28. 7, 14. 14. b ch. 28. 12, fine flour mingled with half an hin and one ordinance shall be for you, 17 Ånd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 18 Speak unto the chil- ever. 2. dren of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land whither I bring you, 19 then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the Cp. Josh. land, ye shall offer up an heave offering unto the LORD. 209 Of the first of your 2dough ye shall offer up a cake for an heave offering: as ye do the heave offering of the threshing-floor, so shall ye heave it. 21 Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the LORD an heave offering throughout your generations. g Deut. 26. 2. 10. Ezek. 44. 30. Neh. 10.37. See Lev. 23. 10-17. Lev. 2.14. 4.2. 22' And when ye shall err, and Cp. Lev. not observe all these commandments, which the LORD hath spoken unto Moses, 23 even all that the LORD hath commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day that the LORD gave commandment, and onward throughout your generations; 24 then it shall be, if it be done unwittingly, without the Cp. Lev. 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 the meal offering thereof, and & ver. 8-10. 2 Or, coarse meal 1 Or, în making a special row 3 Or, in error 4. 13. Lev. 4. 23. Lev. 4. 20. the drink offering thereof, accordTeh. 28. 15. ing to the ordinance, and 'one hegoat for a sin offering. 25" And the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and they shall be forgiven; for it was an error, and they have brought their oblation, an offering made by fire unto the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD, for their error: 26 and all the congregation of the children of Israel shall be forgiven, and the stranger that sojourneth among them; for in respect of all the people it was Lev. 4.27, done unwittingly. 27 And "if one person sin unwittingly, then he shall offer a she-goat of the first Lev. 4. 35. year for a sin offering. 28° And the 23. » See ver. Li priest shall make atonement for the soul that erreth, when he sinneth unwittingly, before the LORD, to make atonement for him; and he shall be forgiven. 29" Ye 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 among them. 307 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 people. 31 Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment; that soul shall utEsd.7.24 terly be cut off, his iniquity shall be upon him. Cp. Dent. 1712 r2 Sam. 2 Chr. Prov. 13.13. they make them 1fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of each border a cord of blue: 39 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 2 go not about Cp. Job after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring: 40 that ye may remember and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God. 41" 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. z 31.7 6.9. & 106. 39. See Lev. a Lev. 22.33. See Lev. 20.8. I Now Korah, the son of bch. 27.3. 16 Izhar, the son of Kohath, the Ex. 6. 16, 18, 21. Ecclus. 45. 18, 19. Jude 11. 16-18. e ver. 7. see Ex. 19. 6. ch. 14. 14 & 35, 34. See Ex. 29. 45. h ch. 14.5 & 20. 6. son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, ch. 26. 9. took men: 2 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 d Ps. 106. together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, se Ye take too much upon you, seeing fall the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the assembly of the LORD? 4 And when Moses heard it, he fell upon his face: 5 and he spake unto Korah and unto all his company, saying, In the morning the LORD will shew who are his, iCp. 2 Tim. and who is holy, and will cause him to come near unto him: even him whom he shall choose will he cause 'to come near unto him. 6 This do; take you m censers, Korah, and all his company; 7 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 n ver. 3. sons of Levi. 8 And Moses said unto Korah, Hear now, ye sons of Levi: 9 seemeth it but a small thing 1 Sam. 18. unto you, that the God of Israel Isai. 7. 13. hath separated you from the conCp. Ezek. 16. 20. gregation of Israel, to bring you p ch. 8. 14. near to himself; to do the service Deut. 10.8. 3 Heb. It is enough for you. 4 Or, whom he will cause to come near CHAP. 16, v. 9.] Ex. 16. 8. CP1 Cor. 3. 5. r ver. 9. s See Ex. 3.8. t Ex. 2. 14. Acts 7. 27, 35. NUMBERS. of the tabernacle of the LORD, and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them; 10 and that he hath brought thee near, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee? and seek ye the priesthood also? II Therefore thou and all thy company are gathered together against the LORD: 9 and Aaron, what is he that ye murmur against him? 12 And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab: and they said, We will not come up: 13 is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but thou must needs make thyself also a 14 Moreover thou prince over us? hast not brought us into a land flow. ing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up. 15 And Moses was very wroth, and said unto the LORD, "Respect not thou their offering: "I have not taken one ass from them, neither 16 And have I hurt one of them. Moses said unto Korah, Be thou Ex. 16.9. and all thy congregation before the LORD, thou, and they, and Aaron, to-morrow: 17 and take ye every man his censer, and put in cense upon them, and bring ye before the LORD every man his censer, "two hundred and fifty censers; thou also, and Aaron, each his cen18 And they took every man his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood at the door of the tent of meeting with 19 And Korah Moses and Aaron. the congregation assembled all against them unto the door of the tent of meeting: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the congregation. u Cp. Gen. 12. 3. & 2 Cor. 7.2. 1 Sam. 12. 3,7. 2 ver. 6, 7. y ver. 35. z See Lev. a ver. 45. b Ex. 33. 5. c ver. 45. ch. 14. 5 & 20. 6. Job 12. 10. Eccles. 12. 7. Isai. 57. 16. Zech. 12. 1. e Cp. Gen. C ser. I a 20 And the LORD spake unto Mo- 1 Heb. bore out. 19. 12-14 11 & 2 Cor. 6. & Rev. you up from about the tabernacle 3 Heb. Sheol. Cp, 1 Kin. |