1   Therfore al the multitude crying out wept that night,

2   and al the children of Israel murmured against Moyses and Aaron, saying:

3   Would God we had died in Ægypt: and ^note in this vaste wildernesse would God we might die, and that our Lord would not bring vs into this Land, lest we fal by the sword, and our wiues and children be ledde captiue. Is it not better to returne into Ægypt?

4   And one said to an other: ^note Let vs appoint a captaine, and let vs returne into Ægypt.

5   Which Moyses and Aaron hearing fel

The people murmur. flatte vpon the ground before al the multitude of the children of Israel.

6   But Iosue the sonne of Nun, and Caleb the sonne of Iephone, who them selues also had viewed the land, rent their garmentes,

7   and spake to al the multitude of the children of Israel: The Land, which we haue circuted, is very good.

8   If our Lord be propitious, he shal bring vs into it, and deliuer vs a ground flowing with milke and honie.

9   Be not rebellious against our Lord: neither feare ye the people of this land, for euen as bread so we may deuoure them. al aide is gone from them: our Lord is with vs, feare ye not.

10   And when al the multitude cried, and would haue stoned them, the glorie of our Lord appeared ouer the roofe of couenant in the sight of al the children of Israel.

11   And our Lord said to Moyses: How long wil this people detract me? How long wil they not beleue me in al the signes, that I haue done before them?

12   I wil strike them therfore with pestilence, and wil consume them: but thee I wil make prince ouer a great nation, and a stronger then this is.

13   And Moyses said to our Lord: That the Ægyptians, from the middes of whom thou hast brought forth this people,

14   and the inhabitantes of this Land, which haue heard that thou Lord art among this people, and art sene face to face, and thy cloude protecteth them, and in a piller of a cloude thou goest before them by day, and in a piller of fire by night:)

15   may heare that thou hast killed so great a multitude as it were one man, and may say:

16   He could not bring in the people into the Land, for which he had sworne: therfore did he kil them in the wildernesse.

17   Let therfore the strength of our Lord be magnified as thou hast sworne, saying:

18   The Lord is patient and ful of mercie, taking away iniquitie and wicked deedes, & leauing no man innocent, which visitest the sinnes of the fathers vpon the children vnto the third and fourth generation.

18   Forgeue, I besech thee, the sinne of this thy people, according to the greatnes of thy mercie, as thou hast bene propitious to them since their going out of Ægypt vnto this place.

20   And our Lord said: I haue forgeuen it according to thy word.

21   Liue I: and the whole earth shal be replenished with the glorie of the Lord.

22    ^noteBut yet al the men that haue sene my maiestie, and the signes that I haue done in Ægypt, and in the wildernesse, and haue tempred me now ten times, neither haue obeied my voice,

23   they shal

Death threatned. not see the Land for the which I sware to their fathers, neither shal any of them that hath detracted me, behold it.

24   My seruant Caleb, who ^note being ful of an other spirit hath folowed me, wil I bring in vnto this Land which he hath circuted: and his seede shal possesse it.

25   Because the Amalecite and the Cananeite dwel in the valleis. To morrow remoue the campe, and returne into the wildernesse by the way of the Redde sea.

26   And our Lord spake to Moyses and Aaron, saying:

27   How long doth this vngratious multitude murmur against me? I haue heard the complaintes of the children of Israel.

28   Say therfore to them: liue I, sayeth our Lord: According as you haue spoken I hearing it, so wil I do to you.

29   In this wildernesse shal your carcasses lie. Al you that are numbered from twentie yeares & vpward, and haue murmured against me,

30   you shal not enter into the Land, ouer the which I haue lifted vp my hand to make you inhabite it, except Caleb the sonne of Iephone, and Iosue the sonne of Nun.

31   But your litle ones, of whom you said, that they should be a pray to the enemies, wil I bring in: that they may see the Land, that hath misliked you.

32   Your carcasses shal lie in the wildernesse.

33   Your children shal wander in the desert fourtie yeares, and ^note shal beare your fornication, vntil the carcasses of their fathers be consumed in the desert,

34   according to the number of the fourtie daies, wherin you viewed the Land: a yeare shal be reputed for a day. And fourtie yeares you shal receiue your iniquities, and shal know my reuenge:

35   for as I haue spoken, so wil I doe to al this wicked multitude, that hath risen togeather against me: in this wildernesse shal it faile, and die.

36   Therfore al the men, whom Moyses had sent to view the Land, and which returning had made al the multitude to murmur against him, detracting from the Land that it was naught,

37   died and were stroken in the sight of our Lord.

38   But Iosue the sonne of Nun, and Caleb the sonne of Iephone liued of al them, that had gone to view the Land.

39   And Moyses spake al these wordes to al the children of Israel, and the people mourned excedingly.

40   And behold very early in the morning rising they went vp to the toppe of the mountaine, and said: We are readie to goe vp to the place, wherof our Lord hath spoken: for we haue sinned.

41   To whom Moyses said: Why transgresse you the word of our Lord, which shal not suceede

Manie slaine. prosperousely with you?

42   Goe not vp, for our Lord is not with you: lest you fal before your enemies.

43   The Amalecite and the Chananeite are before you, by whose sword you shal fal, for that you would not consent to our Lord, neither wil our Lord be with you.

44   But they being blinded went vp to the toppe of the mountaine. But the arke of the testament of our Lord & Moyses departed not from the campe.

45   And the Amalecite came downe and the Cananeite, that dwelt in the mountaine: and striking and hewing them, pursewed them as farre as Horma.

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