land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and more- A. C. 1489. over we saw the children of Anak there. 29 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. 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 the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we. 32 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. 33 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. NUMBERS XIV. 1 The people murmur at the news. 6 Joshua and Caleb labour to still them. 11 1 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. 2 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! 3 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? 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 searched the land, rent their clothes: 7 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. * Heb. men of statures. A.C. 1489. 8 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. 9 Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the *Heb. sha- people of the land; for they are bread for us: their * defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them dow. p Ex. xxxii. not. 10 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. 11 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? 12 I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they. 13 ¶ And P 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: for they have heard that thou LORD art among this people, q Ex. xiii. 21. 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. r Ex. xxxiv. 6. Ps. ciii. 8. 15 ¶ Now if thou shalt kill all 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 beseech thee, let the power of my LORD be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying, 18 The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing * Ex. xx. 5. & the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation. xxxiv. 7. S 19 Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast + Or, hitherto. forgiven this people, from Egypt even † until now. 20 And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word: 21 But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD. 22 Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; 23*Surely they shall not see the land which I sware A.C. 1489. unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it: *Heb. If they see the land. 24 But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit t Josh. xiv. 6. with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it. 25 (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To morrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea. 26 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 27 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. 28 Say unto them, "As truly as I live, saith the LORD, u Ch. xxvi. as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you : 29 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, 65. & xxxii. 11. Deut. i. 35. 30 Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the + Heb. lifted 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 despised. 32 But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness. up my hand. 33 And your children shall wander in the wilderness + Or, feed. forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness. X 34 After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your x Ps. xcv. 10, iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise. 35 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. 36 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, 37 Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD. Ezek. iv. 6. y 1 Cor. x. 10. Heb. iii. 17. 38 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Je- Jude 5. phunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still. A.C. 1489. 39 And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly. 40 And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them z Deut. i. 41. 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. a Deut. i. 44. * Or, A neration and b 2 Pet. iii. 8. 41 And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper. 42 Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies. 43 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. 44 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. 45 a Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah. PSALM XC 25 * A Prayer of Moses the man of God. 1 LORD, thou hast been our dwelling place † in all gene rations. 2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. ye 3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, children of men. 4 b For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday Or, when he when it is past, and as a watch in the night. hath passed thein. Or, is changed. Heb. turned away. * Or, as a meditation. 5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. 6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withéreth. 7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. 8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. 9 For all our days are || passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told. * 25 The opinion that the ninetieth Psalm was composed by Moses, when God shortened the life of man, after the murmuring in the wilderness, is very ancient. Lightfoot, vol. i. p. 34; Horne's Introduction to the Critical Study of the Bible, vol. ii. p. 154; Gray's Key, p. 261. 10*The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. A.C. 1489. * Heb. As for the days of our years in them are seventy 11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even accord- years. ing to thy fear, so is thy wrath. 12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply + Heb. cause our hearts unto wisdom. 13 Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants. 14 O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. 15 Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil. 16 Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children. 17 And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us : and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it. Laws of the Meat Offering, &c.—Sins of Ignorance. NUMBERS XV. 1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, to come. 10. 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, e Lev. xxiii. When ye be come into the land of your habitations, which I give unto you, a 3 And will make an offering by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice din ‡performing a vow, or in freewill offering, or in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet savour unto the LORD, of the herd, or of the flock: 18. 4 Then shall he that offereth his offering unto the LORD Lev. ii. 1. bring a meat offering of a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of oil. 5 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. 6 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. 7 And for a drink offering thou shalt offer the third part of an hin of wine, for a sweet savour unto the LORD. 8 And when thou preparest a bullock for a burnt offering, or for a sacrifice in performing a vow, or peace offerings unto the LORD: 9 Then shall he bring with a bullock a meat offering of three tenth deals of flour mingled with half an hin of oil. |