Moses' complaint to God. B. C. 1490. n Ps. 78. 21. o Deut. 1. 12. p Is. 40. 11. q Is. 49. 23. 1 Thess. 2. 7. r Gen. 26. 3. & 50. 24. Ex. 13. 5. 8 Matt. 15. 33. Mark 8. 4. t Ex. 18. 18. 19. 4. Jonah 4. 3. Zeph. 3. 15. y See Ex. 24. 1, 9. NUMBERS. camp in the night, the manna fell i Seventy elders appointed. 22 Shall the flocks and the herds | B. C. 1490. be slain for them, to suffice them? i See 2 Kings or shall all the fish of the sea be 7.2. Matt. 15. gathered together for them, to suf- 33. Mark 8. 4. John 6. 7, 9. fice them? 23 And the LORD said unto Moses, k Is the LORD's hand waxed short? thou shalt see now whether 1my word shall come to pass unto thee or not. 24 T And Moses went out, and told k Is. 50. 2. & 59. 1. 1 ch. 23. 19. Ez. 12. 25. & 24. 14. 10 ¶ Then Moses heard the people S q 13 $ Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat. t 14 I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me. 15 And if thou deal thus with me, Ꭹ u See 1 Kings "kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if 17 And I will a come down and talk Gen. 11. 5. & with thee there and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will 2 Kings 2. 15. put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone. 18 And say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow, and ye shall eat flesh: for ye have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and ye shall eat. c Ex. 19. 10. d Ex. 16. 7. e ver. 5. Acts 7. 39. f Ps. 78. 29. & 106. 15. † Heb. month of days. g ch. 21. 5. Th Gen. 12. 2. 19 Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days; 20 'But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the LORD which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt? 21 And Moses said, "The people, 38. 26. c. 1. among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month. 46. 26 But there remained two of the men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the spirit rested upon them; and they were of them that were written, but went not out unto the tabernacle: and they prophesied in the camp. 27 And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp. 28 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them. 29 And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the LORD's people were prophets, and that 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 twind 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 high upon the face of the earth. 32 And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten "homers and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp. : X n ver. 17. ch. 12. 5. o See 2 Kings 2. 15. p See 1 Sam. 10. 5, 6, 10. & 19. 20, 21, 23. Joel 2. 28. Acts 2. 17, 18. 1 Cor. 14. 1, &c. q See 1 Sam. r See Mark 9. 38. Luke 9. 49. John 3. 26. s 1 Cor. 14. 5. t Ex. 16. 13. Ps. 78. 26, 27, 28. & 105. 40. † Heb. as it were the way of a day. u Ex. 16. 36. Ez. 45. 11. 33 And while the flesh was yet be-x Ps. 78.30, 31. tween 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 Kibroth-hattaavah: because That is, The graves of lust, Deut. 9. 22. 35 And the people journeyed from Kibroth-hattaavah unto Hazeroth; and tabode at Hazeroth. The names of the spies. t See Heb. 12. 9. If her father had but spit in her B. C. 1490. 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. X 15 * And Miriam was shut out from journeyed not till Miriam was brought the camp seven days: and the people in again. 16 And afterward the people re u Lev. 13. 46. ch. 5. 2, 3. x Deut. 24. 9. 2 Chr. 26. 20, 21. AND Miriam and Aaron spake moved from "Hazeroth, and pitched ch 11. 35. & against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married for a he had married an Ethiopian woman. in the wilderness of Paran. CHAPTER XIII. The names of the men who were sent to search the land. 17 Their instructions. 21 Their acts. 26 Their report. 2 And they said, Hath the LORD in- cheard it. 3 (Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.) 4 d 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 in the 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, I the LORD will make myself known unto him fin a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream. i 7 h My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house. k 8. With him will I speak 'mouth to mouth, even m apparently, and not in dark speeches; and "the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then o were ye not afraid to speak k 1 Tim.3. 15. against my servant Moses? i Heb. 3. 2, 5. 1 Ex. 33. 11. Deut. 34. 10. m 1 Cor. 13. 12. n Ex. 33. 19. o 2 Pet. 2. 10. Jude 8. p Deut. 24. 9. q 2 Kings 5. 27. & 15. 5. 2 Chr. 26. 19, 20. r 2 Sam. 19. 19. & 24. 10. Prov. 30. 32. $ Ps. 88. 4. 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 became leprous, white as snow and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous. 11 And Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, my lord, I beseech thee, rlay 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. 33. a ch. 32. 8. Deut. 1. 22. 3 And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the wil- | b ch. 12. 16. & derness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel. And these were their 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, d Caleb the son of Jephunneh. 7 Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph. 8 of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea Of 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. 14 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses, or many; Judg. 1. 9, 19. The evil report of the spies. B. C. 1490. Ez. 34. 14. k Deut. 31. 6, 7,23 NUMBERS. 19 And what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad; and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strong holds ; The murmuring of the people. saying, The land, through which we B. C. 1490. e Am. 2. 9. & 2. 10. & 9. 2. 33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of thef Deut. 1. 28. giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were hing Is. 40. 22. their sight. CHAPTER XIV. 20 And what the land is, whether i Neh.9.25, 35. it be ifat 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 was the time of the first ripe 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, o the children of Anak, were. Now PHebron was built seven years before Zoan AND all the congregation lifted up 1 ch. 34. 3. h1 Sam. 17.42. a ch. 11. 4. 17.3. ch. 16.41. Ps. 106. 25. 2 b And all the children of Israel b Ex. 16. 2. & 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 cwould 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 25 And they returned from search-children should be a prey? were it ing of the land after forty days. 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. 26 ¶ And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, S 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 is the fruit of it. 28 Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great and moreover we saw the children of Anak there. 29 a 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 are stronger than we. c See ver. 28, 29. d Neh. 9. 17. 5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly off ch. 16. 4, 22. the congregation of the children of | Israel. g ver. 24, 30. ch. 13. 6, 8. Deut. 1. 25. 6 ¶ And Joshua the son of Nun, h ch. 13. 27. and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of 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, is an 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 10 P But all the congregation bade 11 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses, Ps. 121. 5. p Ex. 17. 4. & 24. 16, 17. & 40. 34. Lev. 9. 23. ch. 16. 19, 42. & 20. 6. r ver. 23. Deut. 9. 7, 8. Ps. 95. 8. Heb. 3. 8, 16 |