Numbers - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 142
The Five Books of Moses
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14 They also took pomcgranates, and figs; therefore they named that spot the Brook of Grapes on account of the grapes which they cut from there for the sons of Israel. There they tumed back from sur-veying the country at the end of forty days, and marched and came to Moses and Aaron, and all the chiefs of the children of Israel, in the Wilderness of Paran, at Kadish, and reported the matter to them and all the Council, and showed the fruit of the country, and continued, and said; Qlzpnrt ui il;2 Spies-. ‘We have been to the country to
which you sent us, and it is indeed {lowing with milk and honey, and this is its produce; however, the people who inhabit the country are strong, and their cities are very great fortresses, and we saw the sons of Anak there! Amalek inhabits the south country, and the Hitites, and the jebusites, and the Amorites-in— habit the hills, and the Cananites inhabit along the sea, and alongside the jordan. But Kaleb had been silent before
the people and Moses. Now he said ; ‘Ascending let us go up and conquer them, for we are able to do it! But the princes who went up with
We are not able to overpower those people, for they are And they brought reports to the Children of Israel about the country they had surveyed, The country that we travelled over to examine it, is a country that devours its inhabitants ; and all the people whom we saw were tall men; and we saw the Nephilim there, sons of Anak, more than giants, and we were in our own eyes like locusts,~—and we were like gnats Then all the Council arose and
gave out their votes. The people also wept in that night ; and all the children of Israel com· plained against Moses and against Aaron. And all the Council asked; ‘ Which was better for us ? to die in the land of the Mitzeraim, or for us to die here in this desert? And why did the Evan-Livmc bring us to this country to fall by the sword? Our wives and our children will be plunder. Is it not better for us to return to Mitzer2’ Then every man said to his brother,
‘ Let us choose a leader and return to the Mitzeraim. But Moses and Aaron fell on their
faces before all the chiefs of the children of Israel, and joshua the son of Nun, and Kaleb the son of jephunah, who had surveyed the country tore their garments, and addressed all the chiefs of the chil- dren of Israel and said ;—~· ‘The country that we travelled
over to survey it, is a very, very good land. If the Evan-Lrvnvo is pleased with us, and goes with us to this country, He can give us this land which flows with milk and honey. Rebel not against the EVER-L1v~ ING! and fear not the people of the country, for we can devour them, throwing a shadow over them. Since the Loma is with us, fear them not !’ All the Council threatened, how·
ever, to murder them with stones; but the Glory of the Evan-Lrvmc appeared in the Hall of Assembly to all the children of Israel. Then ]EHOvAH said to Moses, How long shall I be despised by
this people ? How long will they not trust to Me,»in spite of all the won- ders I have effected for them? I could strike them with a word and destroy them, and could make from yourself a nation mightier than they. Moses, however, said to the EVER—
But when the Mitzerites hear of it, from the midst of whom YOU brought up this people by Your Might, and the inhabitants of this country hear, who have heard that janovlm is in the midst of this People;-who eye to eye have seen You are the Evan-r.xv1No,—-— and Your cloud has stood over them`, and with a perpetual cloud You have marched before them by day, and with a perpetual fire by night,—that You have killed this People as a single man,—then the heathen, who have heard this report of You, wi-ll say; ‘ Because ]EHOvAH was not able to bring this People to the country that He swore to them, He has slain them in the desert l' Consequently, now, O! EvER—LIVING, increase Your mercy, as You promised, say- ing, ‘I am the EVER-LIVING, slow to anger, and of great mercy; for- bearing towards passion and sin; and not destroying the helpless; punishing the fault of the fathers
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