Liber Numeri 14
1 igitur vociferans omnis turba flevit nocte illa
And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
2 et murmurati sunt contra Mosen et Aaron cuncti filii Israhel dicentes
And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said to them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!
3 utinam mortui essemus in Aegypto et non in hac vasta solitudine utinam pereamus et non inducat nos Dominus in terram istam ne cadamus gladio et uxores ac liberi nostri ducantur captivi nonne melius est reverti in Aegyptum
And why has the LORD brought us to this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
4 dixeruntque alter ad alterum constituamus nobis ducem et revertamur in Aegyptum
And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
5 quo audito Moses et Aaron ceciderunt proni in terram coram omni multitudine filiorum Israhel
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
6 at vero Iosue filius Nun et Chaleb filius Iepphonne qui et ipsi lustraverant terram sciderunt vestimenta sua
And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:
7 et ad omnem multitudinem filiorum Israhel locuti sunt terram quam circuivimus valde bona est
And they spoke to all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.
8 si propitius fuerit Dominus inducet nos in eam et tradet humum lacte et melle manantem
If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which flows with milk and honey.
9 nolite rebelles esse contra Dominum neque timeatis populum terrae huius quia sicut panem ita eos possumus devorare recessit ab illis omne praesidium Dominus nobiscum est nolite metuere
Only rebel not you against the LORD, neither fear you the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defense is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.
10 cumque clamaret omnis multitudo et lapidibus eos vellet opprimere apparuit gloria Domini super tectum foederis cunctis filiis Israhel
But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.
11 et dixit Dominus ad Mosen usquequo detrahet mihi populus iste quousque non credent mihi in omnibus signis quae feci coram eis
And the LORD said to Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be before they believe me, for all the signs which I have showed among them?
12 feriam igitur eos pestilentia atque consumam te autem faciam principem super gentem magnam et fortiorem quam haec est
I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a greater nation and mightier than they.
13 et ait Moses ad Dominum ut audiant Aegyptii de quorum medio eduxisti populum istum
And Moses said to the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for you brought up this people in your might from among them; )
14 et habitatores terrae huius qui audierunt quod tu Domine in populo isto sis et facie videaris ad faciem et nubes tua protegat illos et in columna nubis praecedas eos per diem et in columna ignis per noctem
And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that you LORD are among this people, that you LORD are seen face to face, and that your cloud stands over them, and that you go before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.
15 quod occideris tantam multitudinem quasi unum hominem et dicant
Now if you shall kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,
16 non poterat introducere populum in terram pro qua iuraverat idcirco occidit eos in solitudine
Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.
17 magnificetur ergo fortitudo Domini sicut iurasti dicens
And now, I beseech you, let the power of my LORD be great, according as you have spoken, saying,
18 Dominus patiens et multae misericordiae auferens iniquitatem et scelera nullumque innoxium derelinquens qui visitas peccata patrum in filios in tertiam et quartam generationem
The LORD is long-suffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation.
19 dimitte obsecro peccatum populi tui huius secundum magnitudinem misericordiae tuae sicut propitius fuisti egredientibus de Aegypto usque ad locum istum
Pardon, I beseech you, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your mercy, and as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
20 dixitque Dominus dimisi iuxta verbum tuum
And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to your word:
21 vivo ego et implebitur gloria Domini universa terra
But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD.
22 attamen omnes homines qui viderunt maiestatem meam et signa quae feci in Aegypto et in solitudine et temptaverunt me iam per decem vices nec oboedierunt voci meae
Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;
23 non videbunt terram pro qua iuravi patribus eorum nec quisquam ex illis qui detraxit mihi intuebitur eam
Surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
24 servum meum Chaleb qui plenus alio spiritu secutus est me inducam in terram hanc quam circuivit et semen eius possidebit eam
But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him will I bring into the land into where he went; and his seed shall possess it.
25 quoniam Amalechites et Chananeus habitant in vallibus cras movete castra et revertimini in solitudinem per viam maris Rubri
(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelled in the valley.) Tomorrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
26 locutusque est Dominus ad Mosen et Aaron dicens
And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
27 usquequo multitudo haec pessima murmurat contra me querellas filiorum Israhel audivi
How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
28 dic ergo eis vivo ego ait Dominus sicut locuti estis audiente me sic faciam vobis
Say to them, As truly as I live, says the LORD, as you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you:
29 in solitudine hac iacebunt cadavera vestra omnes qui numerati estis a viginti annis et supra et murmurastis contra me
Your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward which have murmured against me.
30 non intrabitis terram super quam levavi manum meam ut habitare vos facerem praeter Chaleb filium Iepphonne et Iosue filium Nun
Doubtless you shall not come into the land, concerning which I swore to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
31 parvulos autem vestros de quibus dixistis quod praedae hostibus forent introducam ut videant terram quae vobis displicuit
But your little ones, which you said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which you have despised.
32 vestra cadavera iacebunt in solitudine
But as for you, your carcasses, they shall fall in this wilderness.
33 filii vestri erunt vagi in deserto annis quadraginta et portabunt fornicationem vestram donec consumantur cadavera patrum in deserto
And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your prostitutions, until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness.
34 iuxta numerum quadraginta dierum quibus considerastis terram annus pro die inputabitur et quadraginta annis recipietis iniquitates vestras et scietis ultionem meam
After the number of the days in which you searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall you bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you shall know my breach of promise.
35 quoniam sicut locutus sum ita faciam omni multitudini huic pessimae quae consurrexit adversum me in solitudine hac deficiet et morietur
I the LORD have said, I will surely do it to all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
36 igitur omnes viri quos miserat Moses ad contemplandam terram et qui reversi murmurare fecerant contra eum omnem multitudinem detrahentes terrae quod esset mala
And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander on the land,
37 mortui sunt atque percussi in conspectu Domini
Even those men that did bring up the evil report on the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
38 Iosue autem filius Nun et Chaleb filius Iepphonne vixerunt ex omnibus qui perrexerant ad considerandam terram
But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.
39 locutusque est Moses universa verba haec ad omnes filios Israhel et luxit populus nimis
And Moses told these sayings to all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.
40 et ecce mane primo surgentes ascenderunt verticem montis atque dixerunt parati sumus ascendere ad locum de quo Dominus locutus est quia peccavimus
And they rose up early in the morning, and got them up into the top of the mountain, saying, See, we be here, and will go up to the place which the LORD has promised: for we have sinned.
41 quibus Moses cur inquit transgredimini verbum Domini quod vobis non cedet in prosperum
And Moses said, Why now do you transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.
42 nolite ascendere non enim est Dominus vobiscum ne corruatis coram inimicis vestris
Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that you be not smitten before your enemies.
43 Amalechites et Chananeus ante vos sunt quorum gladio corruetis eo quod nolueritis adquiescere Domino nec erit Dominus vobiscum
For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you shall fall by the sword: because you are turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.
44 at illi contenebrati ascenderunt in verticem montis arca autem testamenti Domini et Moses non recesserunt de castris
But they presumed to go up to the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.
45 descenditque Amalechites et Chananeus qui habitabant in monte et percutiens eos atque concidens persecutus est usque Horma
Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelled in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even to Hormah.
