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Números 14 — Bíblia New American Bible Revised Edition, 2011 (Catholic) | Gospelmais
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1At this, the whole community broke out with loud cries, and the people wept into the night.
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1The whole community was in an uproar, wailing all night long.
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2All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, the whole community saying to them, "If only we had died in the land of Egypt," or "If only we would die here in the wilderness!
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2All the People of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The entire community was in on it: "Why didn't we die in Egypt? Or in this wilderness?
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3Why is the Lord bringing us into this land only to have us fall by the sword? Our wives and little ones will be taken as spoil. Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?"
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3Why has God brought us to this country to kill us? Our wives and children are about to become plunder. Why don't we just head back to Egypt? And right now!"
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4So they said to one another, "Let us appoint a leader and go back to Egypt."
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4Soon they were all saying it to one another: "Let's pick a new leader; let's head back to Egypt."
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5But Moses and Aaron fell prostrate before the whole assembled community of the Israelites;
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5Moses and Aaron fell on their faces in front of the entire community, gathered in emergency session.
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6while Joshua, son of Nun, and Caleb, son of Jephunneh, who had been among those that reconnoitered the land, tore their garments
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6Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, members of the scouting party, ripped their clothes
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7and said to the whole community of the Israelites, "The land which we went through and reconnoitered is an exceedingly good land.
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7and addressed the assembled People of Israel: "The land we walked through and scouted out is a very good land—very good indeed.
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8If the Lord is pleased with us, he will bring us in to this land and give it to us, a land which flows with milk and honey.
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8If God is pleased with us, he will lead us into that land, a land that flows, as they say, with milk and honey. And he'll give it to us.
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9Only do not rebel against the Lord! You need not be afraid of the people of the land, for they are but food for us! Their protection has left them, but the Lord is with us. Do not fear them."
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9Just don't rebel against God! And don't be afraid of those people. Why, we'll have them for lunch! They have no protection and God is on our side. Don't be afraid of them!"
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10The whole community threatened to stone them. But the glory of the Lord appeared at the tent of meeting to all the Israelites.
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10But, up in arms now, the entire community was talking of hurling stones at them.Just then the bright Glory of God appeared at the Tent of Meeting. Every Israelite saw it.
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11And the Lord said to Moses: How long will this people spurn me? How long will they not trust me, despite all the signs I have performed among them?
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11God said to Moses, "How long will these people treat me like dirt? How long refuse to trust me? And with all these signs I've done among them!
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12I will strike them with pestilence and disown them. Then I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.
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12I've had enough—I'm going to hit them with a plague and kill them. But I'll make you into a nation bigger and stronger than they ever were."
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13But Moses said to the Lord: "The Egyptians will hear of this, for by your power you brought out this people from among them.
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13But Moses said to God, "The Egyptians are going to hear about this! You delivered this people from Egypt with a great show of strength, and now this?
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14They will tell the inhabitants of this land, who have heard that you, Lord, are in the midst of this people; you, Lord, who directly revealed yourself! Your cloud stands over them, and you go before them by day in a column of cloud and by night in a column of fire.
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14The Egyptians will tell everyone. They've already heard that you are God, that you are on the side of this people, that you are present among them, that they see you with their own eyes in your Cloud that hovers over them, in the Pillar of Cloud that leads them by day and the Pillar of Fire at night.
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15If now you slay this people all at once, the nations who have heard such reports of you will say,
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15If you kill this entire people in one stroke, all the nations that have heard what has been going on will say,
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16'The Lord was not able to bring this people into the land he swore to give them; that is why he slaughtered them in the wilderness.'
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16'Since God couldn't get these people into the land which he had promised to give them, he slaughtered them out in the wilderness.'
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17Now then, may my Lord's forbearance be great, even as you have said,
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17"Now, please, let the power of the Master expand, enlarge itself greatly, along the lines you have laid out earlier when you said,
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18'The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in kindness, forgiving iniquity and rebellion; yet certainly not declaring the guilty guiltless, but punishing children to the third and fourth generation for their parents' iniquity.'
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18God, slow to get angry and huge in loyal love,forgiving iniquity and rebellion and sin;Still, never just whitewashing sin.But extending the fallout of parents' sinsto children into the third,even the fourth generation.
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19Pardon, then, the iniquity of this people in keeping with your great kindness, even as you have forgiven them from Egypt until now."
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19"Please forgive the wrongdoing of this people out of the extravagance of your loyal love just as all along, from the time they left Egypt, you have been forgiving this people."
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20The Lord answered: I pardon them as you have asked.
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20God said, "I forgive them, honoring your words.
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21Yet, by my life and the Lord's glory that fills the whole earth,
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21But as I live and as the Glory of God fills the whole Earth—
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22of all the people who have seen my glory and the signs I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and who nevertheless have put me to the test ten times already and have not obeyed me,
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22not a single person of those who saw my Glory, saw the miracle signs I did in Egypt and the wilderness, and who have tested me over and over and over again, turning a deaf ear to me—
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23not one shall see the land which I promised on oath to their ancestors. None of those who have spurned me shall see it.
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23not one of them will set eyes on the land I so solemnly promised to their ancestors. No one who has treated me with such repeated contempt will see it.
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24But as for my servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and follows me unreservedly, I will bring him into the land which he entered, and his descendants shall possess it.
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24"But my servant Caleb—this is a different story. He has a different spirit; he follows me passionately. I'll bring him into the land that he scouted and his children will inherit it.
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25But now, since the Amalekites and Canaanites are living in the valleys, turn away tomorrow and set out into the wilderness by way of the Red Sea road.
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25"Since the Amalekites and Canaanites are so well established in the valleys, for right now change course and head back into the wilderness following the route to the Red Sea."
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26The Lord also said to Moses and Aaron:
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26God spoke to Moses and Aaron:
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27How long will this wicked community grumble against me? I have heard the grumblings of the Israelites against me.
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27"How long is this going to go on, all this grumbling against me by this evil-infested community? I've had my fill of complaints from these grumbling Israelites.
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28Tell them: "By my life"—oracle of the Lord—"I will do to you just what I have heard you say.
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28Tell them, As I live—God's decree—here's what I'm going to do:
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29Here in the wilderness your dead bodies shall fall. Of all your men of twenty years or more, enrolled in your registration, who grumbled against me,
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29Your corpses are going to litter the wilderness—every one of you twenty years and older who was counted in the census, this whole generation of grumblers and grousers.
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30not one of you shall enter the land where I solemnly swore to settle you, except Caleb, son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, son of Nun.
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30Not one of you will enter the land and make your home there, the firmly and solemnly promised land, except for Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
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31Your little ones, however, who you said would be taken as spoil, I will bring in, and they shall know the land you rejected.
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31"Your children, the very ones that you said would be taken for plunder, I'll bring in to enjoy the land you rejected
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32But as for you, your bodies shall fall here in the wilderness,
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32while your corpses will be rotting in the wilderness.
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33while your children will wander for forty years, suffering for your infidelity, till the last of you lies dead in the wilderness.
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33These children of yours will live as shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, living with the fallout of your whoring unfaithfulness until the last of your generation lies a corpse in the wilderness.
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34Corresponding to the number of days you spent reconnoitering the land—forty days—you shall bear your punishment one year for each day: forty years. Thus you will realize what it means to oppose me.
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34You scouted out the land for forty days; your punishment will be a year for each day, a forty-year sentence to serve for your sins—a long schooling in my displeasure.
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35I, the Lord, have spoken; and I will surely do this to this entire wicked community that conspired against me: here in the wilderness they shall come to their end and there they will die."
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35"I, God, have spoken. I will most certainly carry out these things against this entire evil-infested community which has banded together against me. In this wilderness they will come to their end. There they will die."
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36And the men whom Moses had sent to reconnoiter the land and who on returning had set the whole community grumbling against him by spreading discouraging reports about the land—
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36So it happened that the men Moses sent to scout out the land returned to circulate false rumors about the land causing the entire community to grumble against Moses—
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37these men who had spread discouraging reports about the land were struck down by the Lord and died.
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37all these men died. Having spread false rumors of the land, they died in a plague, confronted by God.
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38Only Joshua, son of Nun, and Caleb, son of Jephunneh, survived of all the men who had gone to reconnoiter the land.
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38Only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh were left alive of the men who went to scout out the land.
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39When Moses repeated these words to all the Israelites, the people mourned greatly.
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39When Moses told all of this to the People of Israel, they mourned long and hard.
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40Early the next morning they started up high into the hill country, saying, "Here we are, ready to go up to the place that the Lord spoke of: for we did wrong."
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40But early the next morning they started out for the high hill country, saying, "We're here; we're ready—let's go up and attack the land that God promised us. We sinned, but now we're ready."
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41But Moses said, "Why are you now transgressing the Lord's order? This cannot succeed.
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41But Moses said, "Why are you crossing God's command yet again? This won't work.
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42Do not go up, because the Lord is not in your midst; do not allow yourself to be struck down by your enemies.
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42Don't attack. God isn't with you in this—you'll be beaten badly by your enemies.
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43For there the Amalekites and Canaanites will face you, and you will fall by the sword. You have turned back from following the Lord; therefore the Lord will not be with you."
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43The Amalekites and Canaanites are ready for you and they'll kill you. Because you have left off obediently following God, God is not going to be with you in this."
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44Yet they dared to go up high into the hill country, even though neither the ark of the covenant of the Lord nor Moses left the camp.
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44But they went anyway; recklessly and arrogantly they climbed to the high hill country. But the Chest of the Covenant and Moses didn't budge from the camp.
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45And the Amalekites and Canaanites who dwelt in that hill country came down and defeated them, beating them back as far as Hormah.
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45The Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in the hill country came out of the hills and attacked and beat them, a rout all the way down to Hormah.