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the cities are great and walled. We saw there 6 But Josue the son of Nun, and Caleb the son
the race of Enac. of Jephone, who themselves also had viewed the
30 Amalec dwelleth in the south, the Hethite land, rent their garments,
and the Jebusite and the Amorrhite in the moun- 7 And said to all the multitude of the children
tains: but the Chanaanite abideth by the sea and of Israel: The land which we have gone round is
near the streams of the Jordan. very good:
31 In the mean time Caleb, to still the mur- 8 If the Lord be favourable, he will bring us
muring of the people that rose against Moses, into it, and give us a land flowing with milk and
said: Let us go up and possess the land, for we honey.
shall be able to conquer it. 9 Be not rebellious against the Lord: and fear
32 But the others, that had been with him, ye not the people of this land, for we are able to
said: No, we are not able to go up to this people, eat them up as bread. All aid is gone from them:
because they are stronger than we. the Lord is with us, fear ye not.
33 And they spoke ill of the land, which they 10 And when all the multitude cried out, and
had viewed, before the children of Israel, saying: would have stoned them, the glory of the Lord
The land which we have viewed, devoureth its appeared over the tabernacle of the covenant to
inhabitants: the people, that we beheld are of a all the children of Israel.
tall stature.
11 And the Lord said to Moses: How long will
34 There we saw certain monsters of the sons this people detract me? how long will they not
of Enac, of the giant kind: in comparison of
believe me for all the signs that I have wrought
whom, we seemed like locusts. before them?
12 I will strike them therefore with pestilence,
Chapter 14 and will consume them: but thee I will make a
ruler over a great nation, and a mightier than
Therefore the whole multitude crying wept that this is.
night. 13 And Moses said to the Lord: That the
2 And all the children of Israel murmured Egyptians, from the midst of whom thou hast
against Moses and Aaron, saying: brought forth this people,
3 Would God that we had died in Egypt: and 14 And the inhabitants of this land, (who have
would God we may die in this vast wilderness, heard that thou, O Lord, art among this people,
and that the Lord may not bring us into this and art seen face to face, and thy cloud pro-
land, lest we fall by the sword, and our wives and tecteth them, and thou goest before them in a
children be led away captives. Is it not better to pillar of a cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by
return into Egypt? night,)
4 And they said one to another: Let us ap- 15 May hear that thou hast killed so great a
point a captain, and let us return into Egypt. multitude as it were one man and may say:
5 And when Moses and Aaron heard this, they 16 He could not bring the people into the land
fell down flat upon the ground before the multi- for which he had sworn, therefore did he kill
tude of the children of Israel. them in the wilderness.