14

Israel Refuses to Enter Canaan

¹So all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people ⚓wept that night. ²⚓And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness! ³Why has the Lord brought us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and ⚓children should become victims? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?” ⁴So they said to one another, ⚓“Let us select a leader and ⚓return to Egypt.”
⁵Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
⁶But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes; ⁷and they spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying: ⚓“The land we passed through to spy out is an exceedingly good land. ⁸If the Lord⚓delights in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us, ⚓‘a land which flows with milk and honey.’ ⁹Only ⚓do not rebel against the Lord, ⚓nor fear the people of the land, for ⚓they are our bread; their protection has departed from them, ⚓and the Lordis with us. Do not fear them.”
¹⁰⚓And all the congregation said to stone them with stones. Now ⚓the glory of the Lord appeared in the tabernacle of meeting before all the children of Israel.

Moses Intercedes for the People

¹¹Then the Lord said to Moses: “How long will these people ⚓reject Me? And how long will they not ⚓believe Me, with all the signs which I have performed among them? ¹²I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will ⚓make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”
¹³And ⚓Moses said to the Lord: ⚓“Then the Egyptians will hear it, for by Your might You brought these people up from among them, ¹⁴and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have ⚓heard that You, Lord, are among these people; that You, Lord, are seen face to face and Your cloud stands above them, and You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night. ¹⁵Now if You kill these people as one man, then the nations which have heard of Your fame will speak, saying, ¹⁶‘Because the Lord was not ⚓able to bring this people to the land which He swore to give them, therefore He killed them in the wilderness.’ ¹⁷And now, I pray, let the power of my Lord be great, just as You have spoken, saying, ¹⁸⚓‘The Lord is longsuffering and abundant in mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He by no means clears the guilty,⚓visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation.’ ¹⁹⚓Pardon the iniquity of this people, I pray, ⚓according to the greatness of Your mercy, just ⚓as You have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.”
²⁰Then the Lord said: “I have pardoned, ⚓according to your word; ²¹but truly, as I live, ⚓all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord— ²²⚓because 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 ⚓these ten times, and have not heeded My voice, ²³they certainly shall not ⚓see the land of which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who rejected Me see it. ²⁴But My servant ⚓Caleb, because he has a different spirit in him and ⚓has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land where he went, and his descendants shall inherit it. ²⁵Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valley; tomorrow turn and ⚓move out into the wilderness by the Way of the Red Sea.”

Death Sentence on the Rebels

²⁶And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, ²⁷⚓“How long shall I bear with this evil congregation who complain against Me? ⚓I have heard the complaints which the children of Israel make against Me. ²⁸⚓Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you: ²⁹The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness, ⚓all of you who were numbered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above. ³⁰⚓Except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun, you shall by no means enter the land which I swore I would make you dwell in. ³¹⚓But your little ones, whom you said would be victims, I will bring in, and they shall know the land which ⚓you have despised. ³²But as for you, ⚓your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness. ³³And your sons shall ⚓be shepherds in the wilderness ⚓forty years, and ⚓bear the brunt of your infidelity, until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness. ³⁴⚓According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, ⚓forty days, for each day you shall bear your guilt one year, namely forty years, ⚓and you shall know My rejection. ³⁵⚓I the Lord have spoken this. I will surely do so to all ⚓this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.’ ”
³⁶Now 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, ³⁷those very men who brought the evil report about the land, ⚓died by the plague before the Lord. ³⁸⚓But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive, of the men who went to spy out the land.

A Futile Invasion Attempt

³⁹Then Moses told these words to all the children of Israel, ⚓and the people mourned greatly. ⁴⁰And they rose early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, ⚓“Here we are, and we will go up to the place which the Lord has promised, for we have sinned!”
⁴¹And Moses said, “Now why do you transgress the command of the Lord? For this will not succeed. ⁴²⚓Do not go up, lest you be defeated by your enemies, for the Lordis not among you. ⁴³For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you shall fall by the sword; ⚓because you have turned away from the Lord, the Lord will not be with you.”
⁴⁴⚓But they presumed to go up to the mountaintop. Nevertheless, neither the ark of the covenant of the Lord nor Moses departed from the camp. ⁴⁵Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who dwelt in that mountain came down and attacked them, and drove them back as far as ⚓Hormah.

14

Zuangx Mienh Guaix Mose Mbuo

¹Wuov muonz zuangx mienh qaqv nyiemv mbui nyei. ²I^saa^laa^en nyei zuangx mienh ngopv Mose caux Aalon. Ninh mbuo gorngv, “Feix duqv yie mbuo yiem I^yipv Deic-Bung daic, fai yiem naaiv deic-bung-huaang daic maiv zei! ³Ziouv weic haaix diuc dorh yie mbuo taux naaiv norm deic-bung zuqc nzuqc ndaauv daix? Liemh yie mbuo nyei auv-jueiv yaac oix zuqc caangv mingh. Yie mbuo nzuonx I^yipv Deic-Bung zungv gauh longx maiv zeiz?” ⁴Laanh yaac mbuox laanh, “Mbuo ginv dauh zoux bieiv zeiv dorh mbuo nzuonx I^yipv Deic-Bung orqc?”
⁵Mose caux Aalon ziouc mbaapv njiec I^saa^laa^en zuangx mienh gapv zunv nyei dorngx nza'hmien. ⁶Nun nyei dorn, Yo^su^waa, caux Ye^fun^ne nyei dorn, Kaalepv, dongh mingh zaah deic-bung nyei i dauh, nzauh haic ziouc betv ganh nyei lui, ⁷yaac gorngv mbuox zuangx mienh, “Yie mbuo mingh youh zaah gormx wuov norm deic-bung, buatc deic-bung za'gengh! longx haic. ⁸Se gorngv Ziouv horpc hnyouv mbuo nor, ninh haih dorh mbuo bieqc wuov norm deic-bung, yaac zorqv wuov norm deic-bung bun mbuo. Se ndau-touv longx nyei deic-bung.⚓ ⁹Mv baac maiv dungx ngaengc Ziouv, yaac maiv dungx gamh nziex yiem wuov norm deic-bung nyei mienh. Mbuo hungh hec mborqv hingh ninh mbuo.⚓ Nzie ninh mbuo wuov nyungc qaqv zitc mi'aqv. Ziouv yaac caux mbuo yiem. Maiv dungx gamh nziex ninh mbuo maah!” ¹⁰Zuangx mienh ziouc gorngv oix zorqv la'bieiv zong daic ninh mbuo. Wuov zanc, Ziouv nyei njang-laangc hinc cuotv daaih yiem Wuic Buangh nyei Ndopv-Liuh, bun I^saa^laa^en nyei zuangx mienh buatc.

Mose Weic Zuangx Mienh Tov Ziouv

¹¹Ziouv mbuox Mose, “Naaiv deix mienh oix mangc piex yie taux haaix zanc? Maiv gunv yie yiem ninh mbuo mbu'ndongx zoux mbuoqc horngh nyei jangx-hoc ndongc naaic camv, ninh mbuo corc oix ngaengc jienv maiv sienx yie taux haaix zanc? ¹²Yie oix bun ninh mbuo butv domh wuon-baengc mietc ninh mbuo, bun ninh mbuo maiv duqv nzipc wuov norm deic-bung. Mv baac yie oix bun meih zoux yietc fingx nyei ong-taaix. Wuov fingx oix zoux gauh hlo, gauh henv ninh mbuo nyei fingx.”
¹³Mose gorngv mbuox Ziouv, “Meih longc meih nyei domh qaqv dorh naaiv deix mienh yiem I^yipv Mienh mbu'ndongx cuotv daaih.⚓ I^yipv Mienh haiz meih daix meih nyei mienh, ¹⁴ninh mbuo ziouc mbuox yiem jienv naaiv norm deic-bung nyei mienh. O Ziouv aac, naaiv norm deic-bung nyei mienh zungv haiz gorngv meih caux naaiv deix mienh yiem. Meih hmien doix hmien bun mienh buatc jiex. Meih nyei mbuonx yiem jienv ninh mbuo gu'nguaaic. Lungh hnoi zanc Ziouv yiem mbuonx-ndiouh dorh ninh mbuo. Lungh muonz zanc yiem douz-ndiouh. ¹⁵Se gorngv Ziouv zoux yietc nzunc daix nzengc naaiv deix I^saa^laa^en Mienh, beiv daix yietc dauh mienh, fingx-fingx haiz meih hnangv naaiv nor zoux ninh mbuo ziouc gorngv, ¹⁶‘Ziouv maiv maaih banh zeic dorh naaiv deix mienh bieqc ninh houv bun ninh mbuo wuov norm deic-bung, ziouc yiem wuov deic-bung-huaang daix nzengc ninh mbuo.’
¹⁷“Ziouv aac, ih zanc tov bun meih nyei domh qaqv biux mengh cuotv daaih ziux meih gorngv jiex nyei waac. ¹⁸Meih gorngv, ‘Ziouv maiv qiex jiez siepv, ziepc zuoqv nyei hnamv mienh, guangc mienh nyei zuiz caux mienh ngaengc Ziouv nyei sic. Mv baac maiv zeiz maiv bun zuqc dingc zuiz, zungv dingc diex maac nyei zuiz njiec taux buo biei doic fun-faqv.’⚓ ¹⁹Ziouv aac, ziux meih ziepc zuoqv nyei hnamv haic mienh, tov guangc nqoi naaiv deix mienh nyei zuiz, hnangv ninh mbuo yiem I^yipv Deic-Bung cuotv daaih taux ih zanc meih guangc ninh mbuo nyei zuiz wuov nor.”

Ziouv Dingc I^saa^laa^en Mienh Nyei Zuiz

²⁰Ziouv dau, “Ziux meih tov nyei waac yie guangc ninh mbuo nyei zuiz. ²¹Mv baac yie za'gengh ziangh jienv, yie nyei njang-laangc yaac oix buangv nzengc lungh ndiev. Naaiv i nyungc se zien haic. Ndongc naaiv deix zien ²²se yie houv jienv naaiv deix mienh, maiv maaih yietc dauh duqv ziangh jienv taux bieqc wuov norm deic-bung.⚓ Ninh mbuo buatc jiex yie nyei njang-laangc, yaac buatc jiex yie yiem I^yipv Deic-Bung caux deic-bung-huaang zoux mbuoqc horngh nyei jangx-hoc, mv baac ninh mbuo seix yie ziepc nzunc, yaac maiv muangx yie nyei waac. ²³Ninh mbuo ziouc yietc liuz maiv duqv bieqc yie laengz bun ninh mbuo nyei ong-taaix nyei deic-bung. Mangc piex yie wuov deix maiv maaih yietc dauh duqv buatc. ²⁴Mv baac yie nyei bou, Kaalepv, nyei hnyouv caux wuov deix maiv fih hnangv. Ninh yaac gan nzengc yie. Yie ziouc oix dorh ninh bieqc ninh zaah liuz wuov norm deic-bung. Ninh nyei zeiv-fun yaac oix duqv nzipc.⚓ ²⁵Weic zuqc Aa^maa^lekv Mienh caux Kaa^naa^an Mienh yiem wuov deix horngc zaangc nyei dorngx, njang hnoi meih mbuo oix zuqc daaux sin cuotv jauv hungx jienv deic-bung-huaang, gan Koiv-Siqv wuov diuh jauv mingh.”⚓

Baeqc Fingx Guaix Ziouv Ziouc Zuqc Dingc Zuiz

²⁶Ziouv gorngv mbuox Mose caux Aalon, ²⁷“Naaiv deix orqv haic nyei zuangx mienh oix ngopv yie taux haaix zanc? Yie haiz naaiv deix I^saa^laa^en Mienh ngopv yie, guaix yie. ²⁸Weic naaiv oix zuqc mbuox ninh mbuo, ‘Ziouv gorngv, “Yie ziangh jienv yie ganh nyei maengc gorngv, ziux haiz meih mbuo gorngv nyei waac yie zungv oix zoux bun meih mbuo aqv. ²⁹Ei saauv mienh wuov zanc, yiem nyic ziepc hnyangx faaux maengx nyei mienh, dongh ngopv yie wuov deix, zungv oix zuqc yiem naaiv deic-bung-huaang ndortv nzengc.⚓ ³⁰Cuotv liuz Ye^fun^ne nyei dorn, Kaalepv, caux Nun nyei dorn, Yo^su^waa, maiv maaih yietc dauh haih duqv bieqc yie houv bun ninh mbuo yiem wuov norm deic-bung. ³¹Mv baac meih mbuo nyei fu'jueiv, dongh meih mbuo gorngv oix zuqc caangv mingh, yie oix dorh bieqc meih mbuo nqemh wuov norm deic-bung. Wuov norm deic-bung ziouc benx ninh mbuo nyei mi'aqv. ³²Mv baac meih mbuo aeqv, oix zuqc yiem naaiv deic-bung-huaang ndortv nzengc. ³³Meih mbuo nyei fu'jueiv oix zuqc yiem naaiv zoux mangc yungh nyei mienh. Se laaix meih mbuo maiv ziepc zuoqv, ninh mbuo cingx zuqc siouc kouv buangv feix ziepc hnyangx,⚓ zuov taux meih mbuo dauh dauh daic nzengc. ³⁴Meih mbuo oix zuqc siouc meih mbuo ganh nyei zuiz buangv feix ziepc hnyangx. Ziux mingh zaah deic-bung wuov deix feix ziepc hnoi, oix zuqc yietc hnyangx div yietc hnoi. Meih mbuo ziouc hiuv duqv yie maiv horpc hnyouv meih mbuo se hnangv haaix nor.” ’ ³⁵Yie, Ziouv, gorngv liuz aqv. Yie ndongc haaix zungv oix hnangv naaiv nor zoux bun naaiv deix waaic haic nyei zuangx mienh, dongh gapv hnyouv caux yie doix-dekc nyei mienh. Ninh mbuo oix zuqc yiem naaiv deic-bung-huaang buangh zuqc ninh mbuo nyei setv mueiz hnoi. Oix zuqc yiem naaiv daic nzengc aqv.”

Nduov Mienh Guaix Ziouv Wuov Deix Ziepc Dauh Zuqc Daic

³⁶Mose paaiv mingh zaah deic-bung nyei mienh nzuonx daaih gorngv doqc deic-bung nyei jauv-louc nduov zuangx mienh guaix ninh, ³⁷se nzuonx daaih zunh waaic nyei fienx gorngv doqc wuov norm deic-bung wuov deix, zuqc Ziouv bun ninh mbuo butv domh wuon-baengc daic nzengc mi'aqv.⚓ ³⁸Mingh zaah deic-bung nyei mienh kungx maaih Nun nyei dorn, Yo^su^waa, caux Ye^fun^ne nyei dorn, Kaalepv, maaih maengc ziangh hnangv.

I^saa^laa^en Mienh Yiem Homaa Zuqc Suei

³⁹Mose gorngv naaiv deix jauv-louc bun I^saa^laa^en nyei zuangx mienh muangx. Baeqc fingx ziouc nzauh haic, qaqv nyiemv. ⁴⁰Da'nyeic ndorm nziouv nyei, ninh mbuo faaux mbong hlang deix nyei dorngx mingh gorngv, “Yie mbuo ih zanc oix mingh bieqc Ziouv laengz bun nyei dorngx. Yie mbuo baamz zuiz mi'aqv.”
⁴¹Mv baac Mose gorngv, “Meih mbuo weic haaix diuc ngaengc Ziouv nyei lingc? Meih mbuo maiv haih zoux maiv ziangh sic. ⁴²Maiv dungx mingh weic zuqc Ziouv maiv caux meih mbuo yiem. Meih mbuo ziouc zuqc win-wangv daix meih mbuo, ⁴³weic zuqc Aa^maa^lekv Mienh caux Kaa^naa^an Mienh yiem meih mbuo nyei wuov ndaangc maengx. Meih mbuo oix zuqc ninh mbuo nyei nzuqc ndaauv daix. Ziouv maiv caux meih mbuo yiem weic zuqc meih mbuo huin nqaang, maiv gan jienv Ziouv. ”
⁴⁴Mv baac zuangx mienh gaamv faaux mbong hlang deix nyei dorngx mingh maiv gunv Mose caux Ziouv nyei Laengz Ngaengc Waac Faang maiv cuotv ndopv-liuh ciangv. ⁴⁵Yiem wuov mbong nyei Aa^maa^lekv Mienh caux Kaa^naa^an Mienh ziouc njiec daaih mborqv hingh, zunc ninh mbuo taux Homaa Deic.