But the whole assembly talked about stoning them. Then the glory of the LORD appeared at the tent of meeting to all the Israelites. The LORD said to Moses, "How long will these people treat me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in me, in spite of all the signs I have performed among them? I will strike them down with a plague and destroy them, but I will make you into a nation gre...  Read More

"Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.It is nothing compared to what I am going to do. For I am about to do something new.See, I have already begun! Do you not see it?I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.The wild animals in the field will thank Me, the jackals and the owls, too, for giving them water in the desert.Yes, I will make ri...  Read More

That night all the members of the community raised their voices and wept aloud. All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron . . . And they said to each other, "We should choose a leader and go back to Egypt.". . . Joshua son of Nun and Caleb, son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had explored the land, tore their clothes and said to the entire Israelite assembly, "The land we passed t...  Read More

But Caleb tried to quiet the people as they stood before Moses. "Let's go at once to take the land," he said. "We can certainly conquer it!"But the other men who had explored the land with him disagreed. "We can't go up against them! They are stronger than we are!" So they spread this bad report about the land among the Israelites: "The land we traveled through and explored will devour anyone who ...  Read More

The LORD now said to Moses, "Send out men to explore the land of Canaan, the land I am giving to the Israelites.  . . . So Moses did as the LORD commanded him. He sent out twelve men . . . After exploring the land for forty days, the men returned to Moses, Aaron, and the whole community of Israel . . .  They reported to the whole community what they had seen and showed them the fruit they had take...  Read More

Hear the word of the LORD, you descendants of Jacob, all you clans of Israel.This is what the LORD says:  "What fault did your ancestors find in Me, that they strayed so far from Me?They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves. They did not ask, 'Where is the LORD, who brought us up out of Egypt and led us through the barren wilderness, through a land of deserts and ravines, a lan...  Read More