by Septuagint
[11] And it came to pass in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, the cloud went up from the tabernacle of witness. [12] And the children of Israel set forward with their baggage in the wilderness of Sina; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Pharan. [13] And the first rank departed by the word of the Lord by the hand of Moses.
[14] And they first set in motion the order of the camp of the children of Juda with their host; and over their host was Naasson, son of Aminadab. [15] And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Issachar, was Nathanael son of Sogar. [16] And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Zabulon, was Eliab the son of Chaelon. [17] And they shall take down the tabernacle, and the sons of Gedson shall set forward, and the sons of Merari, who bear the tabernacle.
[18] And the order of the camp of Ruben set forward with their host; and over their host was Elisur the son of Sediur. [19] And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Symeon, was Salamiel son of Surisadai. [20] And over the host of the tribe of the children of Gad, was Elisaph the son of Raguel. [21] And the sons of Caath shall set forward bearing the holy things, and the others shall set up the tabernacle until they arrive. [22] And the order of the camp of Ephraim shall set forward with their forces; and over their forces was Elisama the son of Semiud.
[23] And over the forces of the tribes of the sons of Manasse, was Gamaliel the son of Phadassur. [24] And over the forces of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, was Abidan the son of Gadeoni. [25] And the order of the camp of the sons of Dan shall set forward the last of all the camps, with their forces: and over their forces was Achiezer the son of Amisadai. [26] And over the forces of the tribe of the sons of Aser, was Phageel the son of Echran. [27] And over the forces of the tribe of the sons of Nephthali, was Achire the son of Ænan. [28] These are the armies of the children of Israel; and they set forward with their forces.
[29] And Moses said to Obab the son of Raguel the Madianite, the father-in-law of Moses, We are going forward to the place concerning which the Lord said, This will I give to you: Come with us, and we will do thee good, for the Lord has spoken good concerning Israel. [30] And he said to him, I will not go, but I will go to my land and to my kindred. [31] And he said, Leave us not, because thou hast been with us in the wilderness, and thou shalt be an elder among us. [32] And it shall come to pass if thou wilt go with us, it shall even come to pass that in whatsoever things the Lord shall do us good, we will also do thee good.
[33] And they departed from the mount of the Lord a three days’ journey; and the ark of the covenant of the Lord went before them a three days’ journey to provide rest for them. [34] And the cloud overshadowed them by day, when they departed from the camp. [35] And it came to pass when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Arise, O Lord, and let thine enemies be scattered: let all that hate thee flee. [36] And in the resting he said, Turn again, O Lord, the thousands and tens of thousands in Israel.
Chapter 11
[1] And the people murmured sinfully before the Lord; and the Lord heard them and was very angry; and fire was kindled among them from the Lord, and devoured a part of the camp. [2] And the people cried to Moses: and Moses prayed to the Lord, and the fire was quenched. [3] And the name of that place was called Burning; for a fire was kindled among them from the Lord.
[4] And the mixed multitude among them lusted exceedingly; and they and the children of Israel sat down and wept and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? [5] We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt freely; and the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the garlic, and the onions. [6] But now our soul is dried up; our eyes turn to nothing but to the manna. [7] And the manna is as coriander seed, and the appearance of it the appearance of hoar-frost. [8] And the people went through the field, and gathered, and ground it in the mill, or pounded it in a mortar, and baked it in a pan, and made cakes of it; and the sweetness of it was as the taste of wafer made with oil. [9] And when the dew came upon the camp by night, the manna came down upon it.
[10] And Moses heard them weeping by their families, every one in his door: and the Lord was very angry; and the thing was evil in the sight of Moses. [11] And Moses said to the Lord, Why hast thou afflicted thy servant, and why have I not found grace in thy sight, that thou shouldest lay the weight of this people upon me? [12] Have I conceived all this people, or have I born them? that thou sayest to me, Take them into thy bosom, as a nurse would take her suckling, into the land which thou swarest to their fathers? [13] Whence have I flesh to give to all this people? for they weep to me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat. [14] I shall not be able to bear this people alone, for this thing is too heavy for me. [15] And if thou doest thus to me, slay me utterly, if I have found favour with thee, that I may not see my affliction.
[16] And the Lord said to Moses, Gather me seventy men from the elders of Israel, whom thou thyself knowest that they are the elders of the people, and their scribes; and thou shalt bring them to the tabernacle of witness, and they shall stand there with thee. [17] And I will go down, and speak there with thee; and I will take of the spirit that is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear together with thee the burden of the people, and thou shalt not bear them alone. [18] And to the people thou shalt say, Purify yourselves for the morrow, and ye shall eat flesh; for ye wept before the Lord, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: and the Lord shall allow you to eat flesh, and ye shall eat flesh. [19] Ye shall not eat one day, nor two, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days; [20] ye shall eat for a full month, until the flesh come out at your nostrils; and it shall be nausea to you, because ye disobeyed the Lord, who is among you, and wept before him, saying, What had we to do to come out of Egypt? [21] And Moses said, The people among whom I am are six hundred thousand footmen; and thou saidst, I will give them flesh to eat, and they shall eat a whole month. [22] Shall sheep and oxen be slain for them, and shall it suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, and shall it suffice them? [23] And the Lord said to Moses, Shall not the hand of the Lord be fully sufficient? now shalt thou know whether my word shall come to pass to thee or not.
[24] And Moses went out, and spoke the words of the Lord to the people; and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and he set them round about the tabernacle. [25] And the Lord came down in a cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and put it upon the seventy men that were elders; and when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied and ceased. [26] And there were two men left in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Modad; and the spirit rested upon them, and these were of the number of them that were enrolled, but they did not come to the tabernacle; and they prophesied in the camp. [27] And a young man ran and told Moses, and spoke, saying, Eldad and Modad prophesy in the camp. [28] And Joshua the son of Naue, who attended on Moses, the chosen one, said, My lord Moses, forbid them. [29] And Moses said to him, Art thou jealous on my account? and would that all the Lord’s people were prophets; whenever the Lord shall put his spirit upon them. [30] And Moses departed into the camp, himself and the elders of Israel.
[31] And there went forth a wind from the Lord, and brought quails over from the sea; and it brought them down upon the camp a day’s journey on this side, and a day’s journey on that side, round about the camp, as it were two cubits from the earth. [32] And the people rose up all the day, and all the night, and all the next day, and gathered quails; he that gathered least, gathered ten measures; and they refreshed themselves round about the camp. [33] The flesh was yet between their teeth, before it failed, when the Lord was wroth with the people, and the Lord smote the people with a very great plague. [34] And the name of that place was called the Graves of Lust; for there they buried the people that lusted. [35] The people departed from the Graves of Lust to Aseroth; and the people halted at Aseroth.
Chapter 12
[1] And Mariam and Aaron spoke against Moses, because o
f the Ethiopian woman whom Moses took; for he had taken an Ethiopian woman. [2] And they said, Has the Lord spoken to Moses only? has he not also spoken to us? and the Lord heard it. [3] And the man Moses was very meek beyond all the men that were upon the earth. [4] And the Lord said immediately to Moses and Aaron and Mariam, Come forth all three of you to the tabernacle of witness. [5] And the three came forth to the tabernacle of witness; and the Lord descended in a pillar of a cloud, and stood at the door of the tabernacle of witness; and Aaron and Mariam were called; and both came forth. [6] And he said to them, Hear my words: If there should be of you a prophet to the Lord, I will be made known to him in a vision, and in sleep will I speak to him. [7] My servant Moses is not so; he is faithful in all my house. [8] I will speak to him mouth to mouth apparently, and not in dark speeches; and he has seen the glory of the Lord; and why were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses? [9] And the great anger of the Lord was upon them, and he departed. [10] And the cloud departed from the tabernacle; and, behold, Mariam was leprous, white as snow; and Aaron looked upon Mariam, and, behold, she was leprous. [11] And Aaron said to Moses, I beseech thee, my lord, do not lay sin upon us, for we were ignorant wherein we sinned. [12] Let her not be as it were like death, as an abortion coming out of his mother’s womb, when the disease devours the half of the flesh. [13] And Moses cried to the Lord, saying, O God, I beseech thee, heal her. [14] And the Lord said to Moses, If her father had only spit in her face, would she not be ashamed seven days? let her be set apart seven days without the camp, and afterwards she shall come in.
[15] And Mariam was separated without the camp seven days; and the people moved not forward till Mariam was cleansed.
Chapter 13
[1] And afterwards the people set forth from Aseroth, and encamped in the wilderness of Pharan. [2] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, [3] Send for thee men, and let them spy the land of the Chananites, which I give to the sons of Israel for a possession; one man for a tribe, thou shalt send them away according to their families, every one of them a prince.
[4] And Moses sent them out of the wilderness of Pharan by the word of the Lord; all these were the princes of the sons of Israel. [5] And these are their names: of the tribe of Ruben, Samuel the son of Zachur. [6] Of the tribe of Symeon, Saphat the son of Suri. [7] Of the tribe of Judah, Chaleb the son of Jephonne. [8] Of the tribe of Issachar, Ilaal the son of Joseph. [9] Of the tribe of Ephraim, Ause the son of Naue. [10] Of the tribe of Benjamin, Phalti the son of Raphu. [11] Of the tribe of Zabulon, Gudiel the son of Sudi. [12] Of the tribe of Joseph of the sons of Manasse, Gaddi the son of Susi. [13] Of the tribe of Dan, Amiel the son of Gamali. [14] Of the tribe of Aser, Sathur the son of Michael. [15] Of the tribe of Nephthali, Nabi the son of Sabi. [16] Of the tribe of Gad, Gudiel the son of Macchi. [17] These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land; and Moses called Ause the son of Naue, Joshua.
[18] And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Chanaan, and said to them, Go up by this wilderness; and ye shall go up to the mountain, [19] and ye shall see the land, what it is, and the people that dwells on it, whether it is strong or weak, or whether they are few or many. [20] And what the land is on which they dwell, whether it is good or bad; and what the cities are wherein these dwell, whether they dwell in walled cities or unwalled. [21] And what the land is, whether rich or poor; whether there are trees in it or no: and ye shall persevere and take of the fruits of the land: and the days were the days of spring, the forerunners of the grape.
[22] And they went up and surveyed the land from the wilderness of Sin to Rhoob, as men go in to Æmath. [23] And they went up by the wilderness, and departed as far as Chebron; and there was Achiman, and Sessi, and Thelami, the progeny of Enach. Now Chebron was built seven years before Tanin of Egypt. [24] And they came to the valley of the cluster and surveyed it; and they cut down thence a bough and one cluster of grapes upon it, and bore it on staves, and they took of the pomegranates and the figs. [25] And they called that place, The valley of the cluster, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from thence. [26] And they returned from thence, having surveyed the land, after forty days.
[27] And they proceeded and came to Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Pharan Cades; and they brought word to them and to all the congregation, and they shewed the fruit of the land: [28] and they reported to him, and said, We came into the land into which thou sentest us, a land flowing with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it. [29] Only the nation that dwells upon it is bold, and they have very great and strong walled towns, and we saw there the children of Enach. [30] And Amalec dwells in the land toward the south: and the Chettite and the Evite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite dwells in the hill country: and the Chananite dwells by the sea, and by the river Jordan. [31] And Chaleb stayed the people from speaking before Moses, and said to him, Nay, but we will go up by all means, and will inherit it, for we shall surely prevail against them. [32] But the men that went up together with him said, We will not go up, for we shall not by any means be able to go up against the nation, for it is much stronger than we. [33] And they brought a horror of that land which they surveyed upon the children of Israel, saying, The land which we passed by to survey it, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people whom we saw in it are men of extraordinary stature. [34] And there we saw the giants; and we were before them as locusts, yea even so were we before them.
Chapter 14
[1] And all the congregation lifted up their voice and cried; and the people wept all that night. [2] And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron; and all the congregation said to them, [3] Would we had died in the land of Egypt! or in this wilderness, would we had died! and why does the Lord bring us into this land to fall in war? our wives and our children shall be for a prey: now then it is better to return into Egypt. [4] And they said one to another, Let us make a ruler, and return into Egypt. [5] And Moses and Aaron fell upon their face before all the congregation of the children of Israel.
[6] But Joshua the son of Naue, and Chaleb the son of Jephonne, of the number of them that spied out the land, rent their garments, [7] and spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, The land which we surveyed is indeed extremely good. [8] If the Lord choose us, he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which flows with milk and honey. [9] Only depart not from the Lord; and fear ye not the people of the land, for they are meat for us; for the season of prosperity is departed from them, but the Lord is among us: fear them not.
[10] And all the congregation bade stone them with stones; and the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud on the tabernacle of witness to all the children of Israel. [11] And the Lord said to Moses, How long does this people provoke me? and how long do they refuse to believe me for all the signs which I have wrought among them? [12] I will smite them with death, and destroy them; and I will make of thee and of thy father’s house a great nation, and much greater than this. [13] And Moses said to the Lord, So Egypt shall hear, for thou hast brought up this people from them by thy might. [14] Moreover all the dwellers upon this land have heard that thou art Lord in the midst of this people, who, O Lord, art seen by them face to face, and thy cloud rests upon them, and thou goest before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, and by night in a pillar of fire. [15] And if thou shalt destroy this nation as one man; then all the nations that have heard thy name shall speak, saying, [16] Because the Lord could not bring this people into the land which he sware to them, he has overthrown them in the wilderness. [17] And now, O Lord, let thy strength be exalted, as thou spakest, saying, [18] The Lord is long-suffering and merciful, and true, removing transgressions and iniquities and sins, and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation. [19] Forgive this people their sin according to thy great mercy, as thou wast favourable to them from Egypt until now.
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p; [20] And the Lord said to Moses, I am gracious to them according to thy word. [21] But as I live and my name is living, so the glory of the Lord shall fill all the earth. [22] For all the men who see my glory, and the signs which I wrought in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and have tempted me this tenth time, and have not hearkened to my voice, [23] surely they shall not see the land, which I sware to their fathers; but their children which are with me here, as many as know not good or evil, every inexperienced youth, to them will I give the land; but none who have provoked me shall see it. [24] But my servant Chaleb, because there was another spirit in him, and he followed me, I will bring him into the land into which he entered, and his seed shall inherit it. [25] But Amalec and the Chananite dwell in the valley: to-morrow turn and depart for the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.
[26] And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, [27] How long shall I endure this wicked congregation? I have heard their murmurings against me, even the murmuring of the children of Israel, which they have murmured concerning you. [28] Say to them, As I live, saith the Lord: surely as ye spoke into my ears, so will I do to you. [29] Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all those of you that were reviewed, and those of you that were numbered from twenty years old and upward, all that murmured against me, [30] ye shall not enter into the land for which I stretched out my hand to establish you upon it; except only Chaleb the son of Jephonne, and Joshua the son of Naue. [31] And your little ones, who ye said should be a prey, them will I bring into the land; and they shall inherit the land, which ye rejected. [32] And your carcases shall fall in this wilderness. [33] And your sons shall be fed in the wilderness forty years, and they shall bear your fornication, until your carcases be consumed in the wilderness. [34] According to the number of the days during which ye spied the land, forty days, a day for a year, ye shall bear your sins forty years, and ye shall know my fierce anger. [35] I the Lord have spoken, Surely will I do thus to this evil congregation that has risen up together against me: in this wilderness they shall be utterly consumed, and there they shall die.