Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Numbers 14:16-25 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

16. He could not bring the people into the land for which he had sworn, therefore did he kill them in the wilderness.

17. Let their the strength of the Lord be magnified, as thou hast sworn, saying:

18. The Lord is patient and full of mercy, taking away iniquity and wickedness, and leaving no man clear, who visitest the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.

19. Forgive, I beseech thee, the sins of this people, according to the greatness of thy mercy, as thou hast been merciful to them from their going out of Egypt unto this place.

20. And the Lord said: I have forgiven according to thy word.

21. As I live: and the whole earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord.

22. But yet all the men that have seen my majesty, and the signs that I have done in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now ten times, and have not obeyed my voice,

23. Shall not see the land for which I aware to their fathers, neither shall any one of them that hath detracted me behold it.

24. My servant Caleb, who being full of another spirit hath followed me, I will bring into this land which he hath gone round: and his seed shall possess it.

25. For the Amalecite and the Chanaanite dwell in the valleys. To morrow remove the camp, and return into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.