God Dooms His People – Desert Journey – The Brick Bible

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Two of the men who had investigated the country, Joshua and Caleb, addressed the whole community as follows: 'Do not rebel against Yahweh or be afraid of the people of the country, for we shall gobble them up. We have Yahweh on our side. Do not be afraid of them.'

1 of 12 Numbers 14:6–9

The whole community talked of stoning Joshua and Caleb with stones.

2 of 12 Numbers 14:10

Then the glory of Yahweh appeared to all the Israelites, and Yahweh said to Moses, 'How much longer will these people treat me with contempt? How much longer will they refuse to trust me? I shall strike them with a pestilence and destroy them!'

3 of 12 Numbers 14:10–12

Moses said to Yahweh, 'Suppose the Egyptians hear about this. If you kill this people now, the nations will say, "Yahweh was not able to bring this people into the country which he had sworn to give them, and so he has slaughtered them in the desert.'"

4 of 12 Numbers 14:13–16

'Now is the time to assert your power as you promised earlier when you said, "Yahweh, slow to anger, rich in faithful love, forgiving faults and transgressions."'

5 of 12 Numbers 14:17–18

Yahweh said, 'I forgive them as you ask. But as I live, of all these people, not one shall see the country which I promised to give their ancestors.'

6 of 12 Numbers 14:17–18

'However, since Caleb has obeyed me completely, I shall bring him into the country and his descendants shall own it.'

7 of 12 Numbers 14:24

Tomorrow you will turn about and go back into the desert. Say to the Israelites, "In this desert your dead bodies will fall. None of you twenty years or older will enter the country where I solemnly swore to settle you."

8 of 12 Numbers 14:25, 29–30

Your dead bodies will fall in this desert, and your children will be nomads in the desert for 40 years until the last one of you lies dead in the desert.

9 of 12 Numbers 14:32–33

In this desert, to the last man, they shall die.

10 of 12 Numbers 14:35

The men who had investigated the country and then incited the community to mutter against Yahweh, these men were all struck dead before Yahweh.

11 of 12 Numbers 14:36–37

Of the men who had gone out to investigate the country, only Joshua and Caleb were left alive.

12 of 12 Numbers 14:38

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