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Numbers 14:39 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Moses told these words to all the children of Israel, and the people mourned greatly. "
Numbers 14:39
Verse in Context
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37 even those men who brought up an evil report of 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 those men who went to spy out the land.
39 Moses told these words to all the children of Israel, and the people mourned greatly.
40 They rose up early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, “Behold, we are here, and will go up to the place which the LORD has promised; for we have sinned.”
41 Moses said, “Why now do you disobey the commandment of the LORD, since it shall not prosper?
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Numbers 14:1
"All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night."
Numbers 14:2
"All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness!"
Numbers 14:3
"Why does the LORD bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be captured or killed! Wouldn’t it be better for us to return into Egypt?”"
Numbers 14:4
"They said to one another, “Let’s choose a leader, and let’s return into Egypt.”"
Numbers 14:5
"Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel."
Numbers 14:6
"Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes."
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