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But Moses said to him, "Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the Lord 's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit on them!"

So the people worked all that day and night and all the next day, gathering the quails; the least anyone gathered was ten homers; and they spread them out for themselves all around the camp.

While they were at Hazeroth, Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married (for he had indeed married a Cushite woman);

Then Aaron said to Moses, "Oh, my lord, do not punish us for a sin that we have so foolishly committed.

But the Lord said to Moses, "If her father had but spit in her face, would she not bear her shame for seven days? Let her be shut out of the camp for seven days, and after that she may be brought in again."

So Miriam was shut out of the camp for seven days; and the people did not set out on the march until Miriam had been brought in again.

But Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, "Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it."

Then the men who had gone up with him said, "We are not able to go up against this people, for they are stronger than we."

Why is the Lord bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become booty; would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?"

Only, do not rebel against the Lord ; and do not fear the people of the land, for they are no more than bread for us; their protection is removed from them, and the Lord is with us; do not fear them."

But Moses said to the Lord , "Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for in your might you brought up this people from among them,

and they will tell the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you, O Lord , are in the midst of this people; for you, O Lord , are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them and you go in front of them, in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.

Now, since the Amalekites and the Canaanites live in the valleys, turn tomorrow and set out for the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea."

But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.

And your children shall be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and shall suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness.

According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, for every day a year, you shall bear your iniquity, forty years, and you shall know my displeasure."

They rose early in the morning and went up to the heights of the hill country, saying, "Here we are. We will go up to the place that the Lord has promised, for we have sinned."

Do not go up, for the Lord is not with you; do not let yourselves be struck down before your enemies.

For the Amalekites and the Canaanites will confront you there, and you shall fall by the sword; because you have turned back from following the Lord , the Lord will not be with you."

and you make an offering by fire to the Lord from the herd or from the flock—whether a burnt offering or a sacrifice, to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering or at your appointed festivals—to make a pleasing odor for the Lord ,