were but one man then the nations which have heard the fame of thee,
will speak saying: because the LORD was not able to bring in this
people into the land which he swore unto them, therefore he slew them
in the wilderness. So now let the power of my Lord {|LORDE|} be great,
according as thou hast spoken saying: the LORD is long yer he be angry,
and full of mercy, and suffereth sin and trespass, and leaveth no man
innocent, and visiteth the unrighteousness of the fathers upon the
children, even upon the third and fourth generation, be merciful I
beseech ye therefore, unto the sin of this people according unto thy
great mercy, and according as thou hast forgiven this people from Egypt
even unto this place. And the LORD said: I have forgiven it, according
to thy request. But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled
with my glory. For of all those men which have seen my glory and my
miracles which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have
tempted me now this ten times and have not hearkened unto my voice,
there shall not one see the land which I sware unto their fathers,
neither shall any of them that railed upon me, see it. But my servant
Caleb, because there is another manner spirit with him, and because he
hath followed me unto the utmost: him I will bring into the land which
he hath walked in, and his seed shall conquer it, and also the
Amalekites and Cananites which dwell in the low countries. Tomorrow
turn you and get you into the wilderness: even the way toward the Red
Sea. And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron saying: how long shall
this evil multitude murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of
the children of Israel which they murmur against me. Tell them, that
the LORD sayeth: As truly as I live, I will do unto you even as ye have
spoken in mine ears. Your carcasses shall lie in this wilderness,
neither shall any of these numbers which were numbered from twenty
years and above of you which have murmured against me come in to the
land over which I lifted mine hand to make you dwell therein, save
Caleb the son of Iephune, and Iosua the son of Nun. And your children
which ye said should be a prey, them I will bring in, and they shall
know the land which ye have refused, and your carcases shall lie in
this wilderness And your children shall wander in this wilderness forty
years and suffer for your whoredom until your carcases be wasted in the
wilderness, after the number of the days in which ye searched out the
land forty days, and every day a year: so that they shall bear your
unrighteousness forty years, and ye shall feel my vengeance I the LORD
have said that I will do it unto all this evil congregation that are
gathered together against me: even in this wilderness ye shall be
consumed, and here ye shall die. And the men which Moses sent to search
the land, and which (when they came again) made all the people to
murmur against it in that they brought up a slander upon the land: died
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