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17 Let then the strength of the Lord be mag- old and upward, and have murmured against me,
nified, as thou hast sworn, saying: 30 Shall not enter into the land, over which
18 The Lord is patient and full of mercy, by I lifted up my hand to make you dwell therein,
taking away iniquity and wickedness, and leaving except Caleb the son of Jephone, and Josue the
no man clear, who visitest the sins of the fathers son of Nun.
upon the children unto the third and fourth gen- 31 But your children, of whom you said, that
eration. they should be a prey to the enemies, will I bring
19 Forgive, I beseech thee, the sins of this peo- in: that they may see the land which you have
ple, according to the greatness of thy mercy, as despised.
thou hast been merciful to them from their going 32 Your carcasses shall lie in the wilderness.
out of Egypt unto this place. 33 Your children shall wander in the desert
20 And the Lord said: I have forgiven accord- forty years, and shall bear your fornication, until
ing to thy word. the carcasses of their fathers be consumed in the
21 As I live: and the whole earth shall be filled desert,
with the glory of the Lord. 34 According to the number of the forty days,
22 But yet all the men that have seen my wherein you viewed the land: a year shall be
majesty, and the signs that I have done in Egypt, counted for a day. And forty years you shall re-
and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now ceive your iniquities, and shall know my revenge:
ten times, and have not obeyed my voice, 35 For as I have spoken, so will I do to all this
23 Shall not see the land for which I swore to wicked multitude, that hath risen up together
their fathers, neither shall any one of them that against me: in this wilderness shall it faint away
hath detracted me behold it. and die.
24 My servant Caleb, who being full of an- 36 Therefore all the men, whom Moses had
other spirit hath followed me, I will bring into sent to view the land, and who at their re-
this land which he hath gone round: and his turn had made the whole multitude to murmur
seed shall possess it. against him, speaking ill of the land that it was
25 For the Amalecite and the Chanaanite naught,
dwell in the valleys. To morrow remove the 37 Died and were struck in the sight of the
camp, and return into the wilderness by the way Lord.
of the Red Sea. 38 But Josue the son of Nun, and Caleb had
26 And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, gone to view the land.
saying: 39 And Moses spoke all these words to all the
27 How long doth this wicked multitude mur- children of Israel, and the people mourned ex-
mur against me? I have heard the murmurings ceedingly.
of the children of Israel. 40 And behold rising up very early in the
28 Say therefore to them: As I live, saith the morning, they went up to the top of the moun-
Lord: According as you have spoken in my hear- tain, and said: We are ready to go up to the
ing, so will I do to you. place, of which the Lord hath spoken: for we
29 In the wilderness shall your carcasses lie. have sinned.
All you that were numbered from twenty years 41 And Moses said to them: Why transgress