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1온 회중이 소리를 높여 부르짖으며 밤새도록 백성이 곡하였더라 2이스라엘 자손이 다 모세와 아론을 원망하며 온 회중이 그들에게 이르되 우리가 애굽 땅에서 죽었거나 이 광야에서 죽었더면 좋았을 것을 3어찌하여 여호와가 우리를 그 땅으로 인도하여 칼에 망하게 하려 하는고 우리 처자가 사로잡히리니 애굽으로 돌아가는 것이 낫지 아니하랴 4이에 서로 말하되 우리가 한 장관을 세우고 애굽으로 돌아가자 하매 5모세와 아론이 이스라엘 자손의 온 회중 앞에서 엎드린지라 6그 땅을 탐지한 자 중 눈의 아들 여호수아와 여분네의 아들 갈렙이 그 옷을 찢고 7이스라엘 자손의 온 회중에 일러 가로되 우리가 두루 다니며 탐지한 땅은 심히 아름다운 땅이라 8여호와께서 우리를 기뻐하시면 우리를 그 땅으로 인도하여 들이시고 그 땅을 우리에게 주시리라 이는 과연 젖과 꿀이 흐르는 땅이니라 9오직 여호와를 거역하지 말라 또 그 땅 백성을 두려워하지 말라 그들은 우리 밥이라 그들의 보호자는 그들에게서 떠났고 여호와는 우리와 함께 하시느니라 그들을 두려워 말라 하나 10온 회중이 그들을 돌로 치려하는 동시에 여호와의 영광이 회막에서 이스라엘 모든 자손에게 나타나시니라 11여호와께서 모세에게 이르시되 이 백성이 어느 때까지 나를 멸시하겠느냐 내가 그들 중에 모든 이적을 행한 것도 생각하지 아니하고 어느 때까지 나를 믿지 않겠느냐 12내가 전염병으로 그들을 쳐서 멸하고 너로 그들보다 크고 강한 나라를 이루게 하리라 13모세가 여호와께 여짜오되 애굽인 중에서 주의 능력으로 이 백성을 인도하여 내셨거늘 그리하시면 그들이 듣고 14이 땅 거민에게 고하리이다 주 여호와께서 이 백성 중에 계심을 그들도 들었으니 곧 주 여호와께서 대면하여 보이시며 주의 구름이 그들 위에 섰으며 주께서 낮에는 구름기둥 가운데서 밤에는 불기둥 가운데서 그들 앞에서 행하시는 것이니이다 15이제 주께서 이 백성을 한 사람 같이 죽이시면 주의 명성을 들은 열국이 말하여 이르기를 16여호와가 이 백성에게 주기로 맹세한 땅에 인도할 능이 없는 고로 광야에서 죽였다 하리이다 17이제 구하옵나니 이미 말씀하신 대로 주의 큰 권능을 나타내옵소서 이르시기를 18여호와는 노하기를 더디하고 인자가 많아 죄악과 과실을 사하나 형벌 받을 자는 결단코 사하지 아니하고 아비의 죄악을 자식에게 갚아 삼사대까지 이르게 하리라 하셨나이다 19구하옵나니 주의 인자의 광대하심을 따라 이 백성의 죄악을 사하시되 애굽에서부터 지금까지 이 백성을 사하신 것 같이 사하옵소서 20여호와께서 가라사대 내가 네 말대로 사하노라 21그러나 진실로 나의 사는 것과 여호와의 영광이 온 세계에 충만할 것으로 맹세하노니 22나의 영광과 애굽과 광야에서 행한 나의 이적을 보고도 이같이 열 번이나 나를 시험하고 내 목소리를 청종치 아니한 그 사람들은 23내가 그 조상들에게 맹세한 땅을 결단코 보지 못할 것이요 또 나를 멸시하는 사람은 하나라도 그것을 보지 못하리라 24오직 내 종 갈렙은 그 마음이 그들과 달라서 나를 온전히 좇았은즉 그의 갔던 땅으로 내가 그를 인도하여 들이리니 그 자손이 그 땅을 차지하리라 25아말렉인과 가나안인이 골짜기에 거하나니 너희는 내일 돌이켜 홍해 길로 하여 광야로 들어갈지니라 26여호와께서 모세와 아론에게 일러 가라사대 27나를 원망하는 이 악한 회중을 내가 어느 때까지 참으랴 이스라엘 자손이 나를 향하여 원망하는바 그 원망하는 말을 내가 들었노라 28그들에게 이르기를 여호와의 말씀에 나의 삶을 가리켜 맹세하노라 너희 말이 내 귀에 들린 대로 내가 너희에게 행하리니 29너희 시체가 이 광야에 엎드러질 것이라 너희 이십 세 이상으로 게수함을 받은 자 곧 나를 원망한 자의 전부가 30여분네의 아들 갈렙과 눈의 아들 여호수아 외에는 내가 맹세하여 너희로 거하게 하리라 한 땅에 결단코 들어가지 못하리라 31너희가 사로잡히겠다고 말하던 너희의 유아들은 내가 인도하여 들이리니 그들은 너희가 싫어하던 땅을 보려니와 32너희 시체는 이 광야에 엎드러질 것이요 33너희 자녀들은 너희의 패역한 죄를 지고 너희의 시체가 광야에서 소멸되기까지 사십 년을 광야에서 유리하는 자가 되리라 34너희가 그 땅을 탐지한 날 수 사십 일의 하루를 일년으로 환산하여 그 사십 년간 너희가 너희의 죄악을 질지니 너희가 나의 싫어 버림을 알리라 하셨다 하라 35나 여호와가 말하였거니와 모여 나를 거역하는 이 악한 온 회중에게 내가 단정코 이같이 행하리니 그들이 이 광야에서 소멸되어 거기서 죽으리라 36모세의 보냄을 받고 땅을 탐지하고 돌아와서 그 땅을 악평하여 온 회중으로 모세를 원망케 한 사람 37곧 그 땅에 대하여 악평한 자들은 여호와 앞에서 재앙으로 죽었고 38그 땅을 탐지하러 갔던 사람들 중에 오직 눈의 아들 여호수아와 여분네의 아들 갈렙은 생존하니라 39모세가 이 말로 이스라엘 모든 자손에게 고하매 백성이 크게 슬퍼하여 40아침에 일찍이 일어나 산꼭대기로 올라가며 가로되 보소서 우리가 여기 있나이다 우리가 여호와의 허락하신 곳으로 올라 가리니 우리가 범죄하였음이니이다 41모세가 가로되 너희가 어찌하여 이제 여호와의 명령을 범하느냐 이 일이 형통치 못하리라 42여호와께서 너희 중에 계시지 아니하니 올라가지 말라 너희 대적 앞에서 패할까 하노라 43아말렉인과 가나안인이 너희 앞에 있으니 너희가 그 칼에 망하리라 너희가 여호와를 배반하였으니 여호와께서 너희와 함께 하지 아니하시리라 하나 44그들이 그래도 산꼭대기로 올라갔고 여호와의 언약궤와 모세는 진을 떠나지 아니하였더라 45아말렉인과 산지에 거하는 가나안인이 내려와 쳐서 파하고 호르마까지 이르렀더라

1All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. 2All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness! 3Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be captured or killed! Wouldn’t it be better for us to return into Egypt?” 4They said one to another, “Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.” 5Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel. 6Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes. 7They spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, “The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceeding good land. 8If Yahweh delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey. 9Only don’t rebel against Yahweh, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us. Their defense is removed from over them, and Yahweh is with us. Don’t fear them.” 10But all the congregation threatened to stone them with stones. Yahweh’s glory appeared in the Tent of Meeting to all the children of Israel. 11Yahweh said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them? 12I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.” 13Moses said to Yahweh, “Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them. 14They will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you Yahweh are in the midst of this people; for you Yahweh are seen face to face, and 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. 15Now if you killed this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying, 16‘Because Yahweh was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.’ 17Now please let the power of the Lord be great, according as you have spoken, saying, 18‘Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’ 19Please pardon the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your loving kindness, and according as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.” 20Yahweh said, “I have pardoned according to your word: 21but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with Yahweh’s glory; 22because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice; 23surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who despised me see it. 24But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him I will bring into the land into which he went. His seed shall possess it. 25Since the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley, tomorrow turn, and go into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.” 26Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 27“How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, that murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me. 28Tell them, ‘As I live, says Yahweh, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you. 29Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me, 30surely you shall not come into the land, concerning which I swore that I would make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. 31But your little ones, that you said should be captured or killed, them I will bring in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected. 32But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness. 33Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies are consumed in the wilderness. 34After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, you will bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you will know my alienation.’ 35I, Yahweh, have spoken. I will surely do this to all this evil congregation, who are gathered together against me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.” 36The men, whom 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, 37even those men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Yahweh. 38But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, remained alive of those men who went to spy out the land. 39Moses told these words to all the children of Israel, and the people mourned greatly. 40They rose up early in the morning, and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, “Behold, we are here, and will go up to the place which Yahweh has promised: for we have sinned.” 41Moses said, “Why now do you disobey the commandment of Yahweh, since it shall not prosper? 42Don’t go up, for Yahweh isn’t among you; that you not be struck down before your enemies. 43For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and you shall fall by the sword, because you turned back from following Yahweh, therefore Yahweh will not be with you.” 44But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain. Nevertheless, the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and Moses, didn’t depart out of the camp. 45Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites who lived in that mountain, and struck them and beat them down, even to Hormah.

1Toen verhief zich de gehele vergadering, en zij hieven hun stem op, en het volk weende in dienzelven nacht. 2En al de kinderen Israels murmureerden tegen Mozes en tegen Aaron; en de gehele vergadering zeide tot hen: Och, of wij in Egypteland gestorven waren! of, och, of wij in deze woestijn gestorven waren! 3En waarom brengt ons de HEERE naar dat land, dat wij door het zwaard vallen, en onze vrouwen, en onze kinderkens ten roof worden? Zou het ons niet goed zijn naar Egypte weder te keren? 4En zij zeiden de een tot den ander: Laat ons een hoofd opwerpen, en wederkeren naar Egypte! 5Toen vielen Mozes en Aaron op hun aangezichten, voor het aangezicht van de ganse gemeente der vergadering van de kinderen Israels. 6En Jozua, de zoon van Nun, en Kaleb, de zoon van Jefunne, zijnde van degenen, die dat land verspied hadden, scheurden hun klederen. 7En zij spraken tot de ganse vergadering der kinderen Israels, zeggende: Het land, door hetwelk wij getrokken zijn, om hetzelve te verspieden, is een uitermate goed land. 8Indien de HEERE een welgevallen aan ons heeft, zo zal Hij ons in dat land brengen, en zal ons dat geven; een land, hetwelk van melk en honig is vloeiende. 9Alleen zijt tegen den HEERE niet wederspannig! en vreest gij niet het volk dezes lands; want zij zijn ons brood! hun schaduw is van hen geweken, en de HEERE is met ons; vreest hen niet! 10Toen zeide de ganse vergadering, dat men hen met stenen stenigen zoude. Maar de heerlijkheid des HEEREN verscheen in de tent der samenkomst, voor al de kinderen Israels. 11En de HEERE zeide tot Mozes: Hoe lang zal mij dit volk tergen? En hoe lang zullen zij aan Mij niet geloven, door alle tekenen, die Ik in het midden van hen gedaan heb? 12Ik zal het met pestilentie slaan, en Ik zal het verstoten; en Ik zal u tot een groter en sterker volk maken, dan dit is. 13En Mozes zeide tot den HEERE: Zo zullen het de Egyptenaars horen; want Gij hebt door Uw kracht dit volk uit het midden van hen doen optrekken; 14En zij zullen zeggen tot de inwoners van dit land, die gehoord hebben, dat Gij, HEERE! in het midden van dit volk zijt; dat Gij HEERE! oog aan oog gezien wordt, dat Uw wolk over hen staat, en Gij in een wolkkolom voor hun aangezicht gaat des daags, en in een vuurkolom des nachts. 15En zoudt Gij dit volk als een enigen man doden, zo zouden de heidenen, die Uw gerucht gehoord hebben, spreken, zeggende: 16Omdat de HEERE dit volk niet kon brengen in dat land, hetwelk Hij hun gezworen had, zo heeft Hij hen geslacht in de woestijn! 17Nu dan, laat toch de kracht des HEEREN groot worden, gelijk als Gij gesproken hebt, zeggende: 18De HEERE is lankmoedig en groot van weldadigheid, vergevende de ongerechtigheid en overtreding, die den schuldige geenszins onschuldig houdt, bezoekende de ongerechtigheid der vaderen aan de kinderen, in het derde en in het vierde lid. 19Vergeef toch de ongerechtigheid dezes volks, naar de grootte Uwer goedertierenheid, en gelijk Gij ze aan dit volk, van Egypteland af tot hiertoe, vergeven hebt! 20En de HEERE zeide: Ik heb hun vergeven naar uw woord. 21Doch zekerlijk, zo waarachtig als Ik leef, zo zal de ganse aarde met de heerlijkheid des HEEREN vervuld worden! 22Want al de mannen, die gezien hebben Mijn heerlijkheid, en Mijn tekenen, die Ik in Egypte en in de woestijn gedaan heb, en Mij nu tienmaal verzocht hebben, en Mijner stem niet zijn gehoorzaam geweest; 23Zo zij het land, hetwelk Ik aan hun vaderen gezworen heb, zien zullen. Ja, geen van die Mij getergd hebben, zullen dat zien! 24Doch Mijn knecht Kaleb, omdat een andere geest met hem geweest is, en hij volhard heeft Mij na te volgen, zo zal Ik hem brengen tot het land, in hetwelk hij gekomen was, en zijn zaad zal het erfelijk bezitten. 25De Amalekieten nu en de Kanaanieten wonen in het dal; wendt u morgen, en maakt uw reize naar de woestijn, op den weg naar de Schelfzee. 26Daarna sprak de HEERE tot Mozes en tot Aaron, zeggende: 27Hoe lang zal Ik bij deze boze vergadering zijn, die tegen Mij zijn murmurerende? Ik heb gehoord de murmureringen van de kinderen Israels, waarmede zij tegen Mij zijn murmurerende. 28Zeg tot hen: Zo waarachtig als Ik leef, spreekt de HEERE, indien Ik ulieden zo niet doe, gelijk als gij in Mijn oren gesproken hebt! 29Uw dode lichamen zullen in deze woestijn vallen; en al uw getelden, naar uw gehele getal, van twintig jaren oud en daarboven, gij, die tegen Mij gemurmureerd hebt. 30Zo gij in dat land komt, over hetwelk Ik Mijn hand opgeheven heb, dat Ik u daarin zou doen wonen, behalve Kaleb, de zoon van Jefunne, en Jozua, de zoon van Nun. 31En uw kinderkens, waarvan gij zeidet: Zij zullen ten roof worden! die zal Ik daarin brengen, en die zullen bekennen dat land, hetwelk gij smadelijk verworpen hebt. 32Maar u aangaande, uw dode lichamen zullen in deze woestijn vallen! 33En uw kinderen zullen gaan weiden in deze woestijn, veertig jaren, en zullen uw hoererijen dragen, totdat uw dode lichamen verteerd zijn in deze woestijn. 34Naar het getal der dagen, in welke gij dat land verspied hebt, veertig dagen, elken dag voor elk jaar, zult gij uw ongerechtigheden dragen, veertig jaren, en gij zult gewaar worden Mijn afbreking. 35Ik, de HEERE, heb gesproken: zo Ik dit aan deze ganse boze vergadering dergenen, die zich tegen Mij verzameld hebben, niet doe, zij zullen in deze woestijn te niet worden, en zullen daar sterven! 36En die mannen, die Mozes gezonden had, om het land te verspieden, en wedergekomen zijnde, de ganse vergadering tegen hem hadden doen murmureren, een kwaad gerucht over dat land voortbrengende; 37Diezelfde mannen, die een kwaad gerucht van dat land voortgebracht hadden, stierven door een plaag, voor het aangezicht des HEEREN. 38Maar Jozua, de zoon van Nun, en Kaleb, de zoon van Jefunne, bleven levende van de mannen, die heengegaan waren, om het land te verspieden. 39En Mozes sprak deze woorden tot al de kinderen Israels. Toen treurde het volk zeer. 40En zij stonden des morgens vroeg op, en klommen op de hoogte des bergs, zeggende: Ziet, hier zijn wij, en wij zullen optrekken tot de plaats, die de HEERE gezegd heeft; want wij hebben gezondigd! 41Maar Mozes zeide: Waarom overtreedt gij alzo het bevel des HEEREN? Want dat zal geen voorspoed hebben. 42Trekt niet op, want de HEERE zal in het midden van u niet zijn; opdat gij niet geslagen wordt, voor het aangezicht uwer vijanden. 43Want de Amalekieten, en de Kanaanieten zijn daar voor uw aangezicht, en gij zult door het zwaard vallen; want, omdat gij u afgekeerd hebt van den HEERE, zo zal de HEERE met u niet zijn. 44Nochtans poogden zij vermetel, om op de hoogte des bergs te klimmen; maar de ark des verbonds des HEEREN en Mozes scheidden niet uit het midden des legers. 45Toen kwamen af de Amalekieten en de Kanaanieten, die in dat gebergte woonden, en sloegen hen, en versmeten hen, tot Horma toe.