29 And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the LORD'S people
were prophets, andthat the LORD would put his spirit upon them!
30 And Moses gat him into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
31 And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them
fall by the camp, as it were a day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the
other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits highupon the face of the earth.
32 And the people stood up all that day, and all thatnight, and all the next day, and they
gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread themall abroad
for themselves round about the camp.
33 And while the flesh wasyet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD
was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague.
34 And he called the name of that place Kibrothhattaavah: because there they buried the people
that lusted.
35 Andthe people journeyed from Kibrothhattaavah unto Hazeroth; and abode at Hazeroth.
1 And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had
married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.
2 And they said, Hath the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? And
the LORD heard it.
3 (Now the man Moses wasvery meek, above all the men which wereupon the face of the earth.)
4 And the LORD spake suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam, Come out ye three
unto the tabernacle of the congregation. And they three came out.
5 And the LORD came down in the pillar of the cloud, and stood inthe door of the tabernacle,
and called Aaron and Miriam: and they both came forth.
6 And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, Ithe LORD will make
myself known unto him in a vision, andwill speak unto him in a dream.
7 My servant Moses isnot so, who isfaithful in all mine house.
8 With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the
similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my
servant Moses?
9 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them; and he departed.
10 And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam becameleprous, white
as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she wasleprous.
11 And Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, my lord, I beseech thee, lay not the sin upon us, wherein
we have done foolishly, and wherein we have sinned.
12 Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his
mother's womb.
13 And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee.
14 And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be
ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be
received in again.
15 And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days: and the people journeyed not till Miriam
was brought in again.
16 And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of
Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them.
3 And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all
those men wereheads of the children of Israel.
4 And these weretheir names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.

5 Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.
6 Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
7 Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.
8 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun.
9 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.
10 Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi.
11 Of the tribe of Joseph, namely, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.
12 Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.
13 Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael.
14 Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi.
15 Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.
16 These arethe names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called
Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.
17 And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way
southward, and go up into the mountain:
18 And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they bestrong or
weak, few or many;
19 And what the land isthat they dwell in, whether it begood or bad; and what cities they be
that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strong holds;
20 And what the land is, whether it befat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And
be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time wasthe time of the
firstripe grapes.
21 So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come
to Hamath.
22 And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai,
the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
23 And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster
of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they broughtof the pomegranates, and
of the figs.
24 The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children
of Israel cut down from thence.
25 And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.
26 And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children
of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto
all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.
27 And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it
floweth with milk and honey; and this isthe fruit of it.
28 Nevertheless the people bestrong that dwell in the land, and the cities arewalled, andvery
great: and moreover 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
arestronger 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, isa land that eateth up the
inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it aremen of a great stature.

33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which comeof the giants: and we were in our
own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
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 wereof 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, isan exceeding good land.
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 people of the land; for they arebread
for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD iswith us: fear them 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 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 itto the inhabitants of this land: forthey have heard that thou LORD art
among this people, that thou LORD art seen face to face, and thatthy cloud standeth over them,
and thatthou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by
night.
15 Now ifthou shalt kill allthis 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 islongsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by
no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third
and fourth generation.
19 Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy
mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
20 And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word:
21 But astruly asI 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, and 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 unto their fathers, neither shall any of
them that provoked me see it: