13 And Yehovah spake unto Moshe, saying, ²Send thou men, that they may spy out the land of Kena’an, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a prince among them. ³And Moshe sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of Yehovah: all of them men who were heads of the children of Isra’el. ⁴And these were their names: Of the tribe of Re’uven, Shammua the son of Zakur. ⁵Of the tribe of Shim’on, Shafat the son of Hori. ⁶Of the tribe of Y’hudah, Kalev the son of Y’funeh. ⁷Of the tribe of Yissakhar, Yig’al the son of Yosef. ⁸Of the tribe of Efrayim, Hoshea the son of Nun. ⁹Of the tribe of Binyamin, Palti the son of Rafu. ¹⁰Of the tribe of Z’vulun, Gadi’el the son of Sodi. ¹¹Of the tribe of Yosef, namely, of the tribe of M’nasheh, Gadi the son of Susi. ¹²Of the tribe of Dan, ‘Ammi’el the son of G’malli. ¹³Of the tribe of Asher, S’tur the son of Mikha’el. ¹⁴Of the tribe of Naftali, Nachbi the son of Vofsi. ¹⁵Of the tribe of Gad, Ge’u’el the son of Makhi. ¹⁶These are the names of the men that Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moshe called Hoshea the son of Nun Y’hoshua. 

¹⁷And Moshe sent them to spy out the land of Kena’an, and said unto them, Get you up this way by the South, and go up into the hill-country: ¹⁸and see the land, what it is; and the people that dwell therein, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many; ¹⁹and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it is good or bad; and what cities they are that they dwell in, whether in camps, or in strongholds; ²⁰and what the land is, whether it is fat or lean, whether there is wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes. 

²¹So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath. ²²And they went up by the South, and came unto Hebron; and Ahaiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of ‘Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) ²³And they came unto the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it upon a staff between two; they brought also of the pomegranates, and of the figs. ²⁴That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from thence. 

²⁵And they returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days. ²⁶And they went and came to Moshe, and to Aharon, and to all the congregation of the children of Isra’el, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land. ²⁷And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us; and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it. ²⁸Howbeit the people that dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there. ^29′Amalek dwelleth in the land of the South: and the Hitti, and the Y’vusi, and the Emori, dwell in the hill-country; and the Kena’ani dwelleth by the sea, and along by the side of the Yarden. 

³⁰And Kalev stilled the people before Moshe, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it. ³¹But the men that went up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we. ³²And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out unto the children of Isra’el, saying, The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature. ³³And there we saw the N’filim, the sons of ‘Anak, who come of the N’filim: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight. 

14 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. ²And all the children of Isra’el murmured against Moshe and against Aharon: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this wilderness! ³And wherefore doth Yehovah bring us unto this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: were it not better for us to return into Egypt? 

⁴And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt. ⁵Then Moshe and Aharon fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Isr’ael. ⁶And Y’hoshua the son of Nun and Kalev the son of Y’funeh, who were of them that spied out the land, rent their clothes: ⁷and they spake unto all the congregation of the children of Isra’el, saying, The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceeding good land. ⁸If Yehovah delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it unto us; a land which floweth with milk and honey. ⁹Only rebel not against Yehovah, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is removed from over them, and Yehovah is with us: fear them not. ¹⁰But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of Yehovah appeared in the tent of meeting unto all the children of Isra’el. 

¹¹And Yehovah said unto Moshe, How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have wrought among them? ¹²I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they. 

¹³And Moshe said unto Yehovah, Then the Egyptians will hear it; for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them; ¹⁴and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that thou Yehovah art in the midst of this people; for thou Yehovah art seen face to face, and thy cloud standeth over them, and thou goest before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night. ¹⁵Now if thou shalt kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying, ¹⁶Because Yehovah was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness. ¹⁷And now, I pray thee, let the power of the Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying, ¹⁸Yehovah is slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation. ¹⁹Pardon, I pray thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy lovingkindness, and according as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now. 

²⁰And Yehovah said, I have pardoned according to thy word: ²¹but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of Yehovah; ²²because all those men that have seen my glory, and my signs, which I wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; ²³surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that despised me see it: ²⁴but my servant Kalev, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it. ²⁵Now the ‘Amaleki and the Kena’ani dwell in the valley: to-morrow turn ye, and get you into the wilderness by the way to the Sea of Suf. 

²⁶And Yehovah spake unto Moshe and unto Aharon, saying, ²⁷How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, that murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Isra’el, which they murmur against me. ²⁸Say unto them, As I live, saith Yehovah, surely as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you: ²⁹your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, that have murmured against me, ³⁰surely ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware that I would make you dwell therein, save Kalev the son of Y’funeh, and Y’hoshua the son of Nun. ³¹But your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have rejected. ³²But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness. ³³And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whoredoms, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness. ³⁴After the number of the days in which ye spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my alienation. ³⁵I, Yehovah, have spoken, surely this will I do unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die. 

³⁶And the men, whom Moshe sent to spy out the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report against the land, ³⁷even those men that did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Yehovah. ³⁸But Y’hoshua the son of Nun, and Kalev the son of Y’funeh, remained alive of those men that went to spy out the land. 

³⁹And Yehovah told these words unto all the children of Isra’el: and the people mourned greatly. ⁴⁰And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up to the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we are here, and will go up unto the place which Yehovah hath promised: for we have sinned. ⁴¹And Moshe said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of Yehovah, seeing it shall not prosper? ⁴²Go not up, for Yehovah is not among you; that ye be not smitten down before your enemies. ⁴³For there the ‘Amalekim and the Kena’anim are before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned back from following Yehovah, therefore Yehovah will not be with you. ⁴⁴But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of Yehovah, and Moshe, departed not out of the camp. ⁴⁵Then the ‘Amalekim came down, and the Kena’anim who dwelt in that mountain, and smote them and beat them down, even unto Hormah. 

15 And Yehovah spake unto Moshe, saying, ²Speak unto the children of Isra’el, and say unto them, When ye are come into the land of your habitations, which I give unto you, ³and will make an offering by fire unto Yehovah, a burnt-offering, or a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or as a freewill-offering, or in your set feasts, to make a sweet savor unto Yehovah, of the herd, or of the flock; ⁴then shall he that offereth his oblation offer unto Yehovah a meal-offering of a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mingled with the fourth part of a hin of oil: ⁵and wine for the drink-offering, the fourth part of a hin, shalt thou prepare with the burnt-offering, or for the sacrifice, for each lamb. ⁶Or for a ram, thou shalt prepare for a meal-offering two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mingled with the third part of a hin of oil: ⁷and for the drink-offering thou shalt offer the third part of a hin of wine, of a sweet savor unto Yehovah. ⁸And when thou preparest a bullock for a burnt-offering, or for a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or for peace-offerings unto Yehovah; ⁹then shall he offer with the bullock a meal-offering of three tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mingled with half a hin of oil: ¹⁰and thou shalt offer for the drink-offering half a hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Yehovah. 

¹¹Thus shall it be done for each bullock, or for each ram, or for each of the he-lambs, or of the kids. ¹²According to the number that ye shall prepare, so shall ye do to every one according to their number. ¹³All that are home-born shall do these things after this manner, in offering an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Yehovah. ¹⁴And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever may be among you throughout your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Yehovah; as ye do, so he shall do. ¹⁵For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you, a statute for ever throughout your generations: as ye are, so shall the sojourner be before Yehovah. ¹⁶One law and one ordinance shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you. 

¹⁷And Jehovah spake unto Moshe, saying, ¹⁸Speak unto the children of Isra’el, and say unto them, When ye come into the land whither I bring you, ¹⁹then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall offer up a heave-offering unto Yehovah. ²⁰Of the first of your dough ye shall offer up a cake for a heave-offering: as the heave-offering of the threshing-floor, so shall ye heave it. ²¹Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto Yehovah a heave-offering throughout your generations. 

²²And when ye shall err, and not observe all these commandments, which Yehovah hath spoken unto Moshe, ²³even all that Yehovah hath commanded you by Moshe, from the day that Yehovah gave commandment, and onward throughout your generations; ²⁴then it shall be, if it be done unwittingly, without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt-offering, for a sweet savor unto Jehovah, with the meal-offering thereof, and the drink-offering thereof, according to the ordinance, and one he-goat for a sin-offering. ²⁵And the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the children of Isra’el, and they shall be forgiven; for it was an error, and they have brought their oblation, an offering made by fire unto Yehovah, and their sin-offering before Jehovah, for their error: ²⁶and all the congregation of the children of Israel shall be forgiven, and the stranger that sojourneth among them; for in respect of all the people it was done unwittingly. 

²⁷And if one person sin unwittingly, then he shall offer a she-goat a year old for a sin-offering. ²⁸And the priest shall make atonement for the soul that erreth, when he sinneth unwittingly, before Yehovah, to make atonement for him; and he shall be forgiven. ²⁹Ye shall have one law for him that doeth aught unwittingly, for him that is home-born among the children of Isra’el, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them. ³⁰But the soul that doeth aught with a high hand, whether he be home-born or a sojourner, the same blasphemeth Yehovah; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people. ³¹Because he hath despised the word of Yehovah, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him. 

³²And while the children of Isra’el were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks upon the sabbath day. ³³And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moshe and Aharon, and unto all the congregation. ³⁴And they put him in ward, because it had not been declared what should be done to him. ³⁵And Yehovah said unto Moshe, The man shall surely be put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp. ³⁶And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him to death with stones; as Yehovah commanded Moshe. 

³⁷And Yehovah spake unto Moshe, saying, ³⁸Speak unto the children of Isra’el, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of each border a cord of blue: ³⁹and it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of Yehovah, and do them; and that ye follow not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to play the harlot; ⁴⁰that ye may remember and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God. ⁴¹I am Yehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am Yehovah your God.