Orthodox Jewish Bible

Bamidbar 14:21-38 Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB)

21. But as surely as I live, Kol HaAretz (all the Earth) shall be filled with the Kavod Hashem.

22. Because all those men which have seen My kavod, and My otot (miraculous signs), which I performed in Mitzrayim and in the midbar, and have tested Me now these ten times, and have not paid heed to My voice;

23. Surely they shall not see HaAretz which I swore unto their avot, neither shall any of them that treated Me with contempt see it:

24. But Avdi Kalev, because he hath a ruach acheret in him, and hath followed after Me fully, him will I bring into HaAretz whereinto he went; and his zera shall inherit it.

25. (Now the Amaleki and the Kena'ani dwelt in the valley.) Tomorrow turn and get you into the midbar by the way of the Yam Suph.

26. And Hashem spoke unto Moshe and unto Aharon, saying,

27. How long shall I bear with this Edah Hara'ah, which murmur against Me? I have heard the murmurings of the Bnei Yisroel, which they murmur against Me.

28. Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith Hashem, as ye have spoken in Mine ears, so will I do to you:

29. Your corpses shall fall in this midbar; and all that were numbered of you, according to your entire mispar (number, census), from twenty years old and upward which have murmured against Me.

30. Not one of you shall come into HaAretz, concerning which I swore to make you dwell therein, except for Kalev ben Yephunneh, and Yehoshua ben Nun.

31. But your little ones, which ye said would be plunder, them will I bring in, and they shall know HaAretz which ye have rejected.

32. But as for you, your corpses, they shall fall in this midbar.

33. And your banim shall wander [wandering ro'im] in the midbar arba'im shanah, and bear [the penalty of] your whoredoms [zenut, spiritual disloyalty and rebellion], until the last of your corpses lies in the midbar.

34. After the number of the days in which ye explored HaAretz, even arba'im, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even arba'im shanah, and ye shall know My Tenu'a (Opposition).

35. I, Hashem, have spoken, I will surely do it unto this Kol HaEdah, that are gathered together against Me: in this midbar they shall come to an end, and there they shall die.

36. And the anashim, which Moshe sent to spy out the land, who returned, and made Kol HaEdah to murmur against him, the ones spreading a dibbah (bad report, slander) about HaAretz,

37. Even those anashim that did bring up the evil report of HaAretz, died by the maggefah before Hashem.

38. But Yehoshua ben Nun, and Kalev ben Yephunneh survived of the anashim that went to explore HaAretz.