18a‘The Lord is longsuffering and abundant in mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He by no means clears theguilty,bvisiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation.’
19aPardon the iniquity of this people, I pray, baccording to the greatness of Your mercy, just cas You have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.”
20 Then the Lord said: “I have pardoned, aaccording to your word;
21 but truly, as I live, aall the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord—
22abecause all these men who have seen My glory and the signs which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have put Me to the test now bthese ten times, and have not heeded My voice,
23 they certainly shall not asee the land of which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who rejected Me see it.
24 But My servant aCaleb, because he has a different spirit in him and bhas followed Me fully, I will bring into the land where he went, and his descendants shall inherit it.
25 Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valley; tomorrow turn and amove out into the wilderness by the Way of the Red Sea.”
27a“How long shallIbearwith this evil congregation who complain against Me? bI have heard the complaints which the children of Israel make against Me.
28aSay to them, ‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you:
29 The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness, aall of you who were numbered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above.
30aExcept for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun, you shall by no means enter the land which I1 swore I would make you dwell in.
31aBut your little ones, whom you said would be victims, I will bring in, and they shall1 know the land which byou have despised.
32 But asfor you, ayour carcasses shall fall in this wilderness.
33 And your sons shall abe shepherds in the wilderness bforty years, and cbear the brunt of your infidelity, until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness.
34aAccording to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, bforty days, for each day you shall bear your1 guilt one year, namely forty years, cand you shall know My rejection.
35aI the Lord have spoken this. I will surely do so to all bthis evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.’ ”
36 Now the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation complain against him by bringing a bad report of the land,
NUMBERS. This book is so called because it contains an account of the enumeration and arrangement of the Israelites. The early part of it, from the first through the tenth chapters, appears to be a supplement to Leviticus, being occupied with relating the appointment of the Levites to the sacred offices. The journal of the march through the wilderness is then given as far as Numbers 21:20; after which the early incidents of the invasion are narrated. One direct quotation only from this book (Numbers 16:5) is made in the New Testament (II Timothy 2:19); but indirect references to it by the later sacred writers are very numerous.
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