Hethites, Iebusites and the Amorites dwell in the mountains, and the
Cananites dwell by the sea and along by the coast of Iordan. And Caleb
stilled the murmur of the people against Moses saying: let us go up and
conquer it, for we be able to overcome it. 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: And they brought up an evil report of the land
which they had searched, unto the children of Israel saying: The land
which we have gone thorow to search it out, is a land that eateth up
the inhabiters thereof, and the people that we saw in it are men of
stature. And there we saw also giants, the children of Enack which are
of the giants. And we seemed in our sight as it were grasshoppers and
so we did in their sight.
Chapter .xiiij.
And the multitude cried out, and the people wept thorowout that night,
and all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron. And
the whole congregation said unto them: would God that we had died in
the land of Egypt, either we would that we had died in this wilderness.
Wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land to fall upon the
sword, that both our wives, and also our children should be a prey? is
it not better that we return unto Egypt again? And they said one to
another: let us make a captain and return unto Egypt again. And Moses
and Aaron fell on their faces before all the congregation of the
multitude of the children of Israel. And Iosua the son of Nun, and
Caleb the son of Iephune which were of them that searched the land rent
their clothes and spake unto all the company of the children of Israel
saying: The land which we walked thorow to search it, is a very good
land. If the LORD have lust to us, he will bring us into this land and
give it us, which is a land that floweth with milk and honey. But in
any wise rebel not against the LORD. Moreover fear ye not the people of
the land, for they are but bread for us. Their shield is departed from
them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not therefore. And all the
whole multitude bade stone them with stones. But the glory of the LORD
appeared in the tabernacle of witness, unto all the children of Israel.
And the LORD said unto Moses: How long shall this people rail upon me,
and how long will it be, yer they believe me, for all my signs which I
have shewed among them? I will smite them with the pestilence and
destroy them, and will make of thee a greater nation and a mightier
than they. And Moses said unto the LORD: then the Egyptians shall hear
it, for thou broughtest this people with thy might from among them. And
it will be told to the inhabiters of this land also, for they have
heard likewise, that thou the LORD art among this people, and that thou
art seen face to face, and that thy cloud stondeth over them and that
thou goest before them by day time in a pillar of cloud, and in a
pillar of fire by night. If thou shalt kill all this people as they
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