Numbers 14 - 15

The People Rebel

1 Then all the congregation raised a loud cry, and the people i wept that night. 2 And all the people of Israel j grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, "Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or k would that we had died in this wilderness! 3 Why is the Lord bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? l Our wives and our little ones will become a prey. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?" 4 And they said to one another, m "Let us choose a leader and n go back to Egypt."

5 Then o Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the people of Israel. 6 p And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes 7 and said to all the congregation of the people of Israel, q "The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land. 8 If r the Lord delights in us, he will bring us into this land and give it to us, s a land that flows with milk and honey. 9 Only t do not rebel against the Lord. And u do not fear the people of the land, for v they are bread for us. Their protection is removed from them, and the Lord is with us; do not fear them." 10 w Then all the congregation said to stone them with stones. But x the glory of the Lord appeared at the tent of meeting to all the people of Israel.

11 And the Lord said to Moses, "How long will this people y despise me? And how long will they not z believe in me, in spite of all the signs that I have done among them? 12 I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I a will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they."

Moses Intercedes for the People

13 But b Moses said to the Lord, "Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for you brought up this people in your might from among them, 14 and they will tell the inhabitants of this land. c They have heard that you, O Lord, are in the midst of this people. For you, O Lord, are seen face to face, and d your cloud stands over them and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night. 15 Now if you kill this people as one man, then the nations who have heard your fame will say, 16 'It is because the Lord e was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to give to them that he has killed them in the wilderness.' 17 And now, please let the power of the Lord be great as you have promised, saying, 18 f 'The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, g visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the third and the fourth generation.' 19 Please h pardon the iniquity of this people, according to the greatness of your steadfast love, just i as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt until now."

God Promises Judgment

20 Then the Lord said, "I have pardoned, j according to your word. 21 But truly, as I live, and as all k the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord, 22 l none of the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have put me to the test these m ten times and have not obeyed my voice, 23 n shall see the land that I swore to give to their fathers. And none of those who despised me shall see it. 24 But my servant o Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has p followed me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it. 25 q Now, since the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valleys, r turn tomorrow and set out for the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea."

26 And the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 27 "How long shall s this wicked congregation grumble against me? t I have heard the grumblings of the people of Israel, which they grumble against me. 28 Say to them, u 'As I live, declares the Lord, v what you have said in my hearing I will do to you: 29 w your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and x of all your number, listed in the census y from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against me, 30 not one shall come into the land where I z swore that I would make you dwell, a except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun. 31 b But your little ones, who you said would become a prey, I will bring in, and they shall know the land that c you have rejected. 32 But as for you, w your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness. 33 And your children d shall be shepherds in the wilderness e forty years and shall f suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness. 34 g According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, h forty days, a year for each day, you shall bear your iniquity forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.' 35 i I, the Lord, have spoken. Surely this will I do to all j this wicked congregation who are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall come to a full end, and there they shall die."

36 k And the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation grumble against him by bringing up a bad report about the land - 37 the men who brought up a bad report of the land - l died by plague before the Lord. 38 Of those men who went to spy out the land, m only Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive.

Israel Defeated in Battle

39 When Moses told these words to all the people of Israel, the people n mourned greatly. 40 And they rose early in the morning and went up to the heights of the hill country, saying, o "Here we are. We will go up to the place that the Lord has promised, for we have sinned." 41 p But Moses said, "Why now are you transgressing the command of the Lord, when that will not succeed? 42 q Do not go up, r for the Lord is not among you, lest you be struck down before your enemies. 43 For there s the Amalekites and the Canaanites are facing you, and you shall fall by the sword. Because you have turned back from following the Lord, the Lord will not be with you." 44 t But they presumed to go up to the heights of the hill country, although neither u the ark of the covenant of the Lord nor Moses departed out of the camp. 45 Then v the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country came down and defeated them and pursued them, even to w Hormah.

Numbers 15

Laws About Sacrifices

1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 "Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, x When you come into the land you are to inhabit, which I am giving you, 3 and y you offer to the Lord from the herd or from the flock a food offering 1 or a burnt offering or a sacrifice, z to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering or a at your appointed feasts, to make a b pleasing aroma to the Lord, 4 then c he who brings his offering shall offer to the Lord d a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah 2 of fine flour, e mixed with a quarter of a hin 3 of oil; 5 and you shall offer with the burnt offering, or for the sacrifice, a quarter of a hin of f wine for the drink offering for each lamb. 6 g Or for a ram, you shall offer for a grain offering two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a third of a hin of oil. 7 And for the drink offering you shall offer a third of a hin of wine, a b pleasing aroma to the Lord. 8 And when you offer a bull as a burnt offering or sacrifice, to z fulfill a vow or for h peace offerings to the Lord, 9 then one shall offer i with the bull a grain offering of three tenths of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with half a hin of oil. 10 And you shall offer for the drink offering half a hin of wine, as a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

11 j "Thus it shall be done for each bull or ram, or for each lamb or young goat. 12 As many as you offer, so shall you do with each one, as many as there are. 13 Every native Israelite shall do these things in this way, in offering a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the Lord. 14 And if a stranger is sojourning with you, or anyone is living permanently among you, and he wishes to offer a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the Lord, he shall do as you do. 15 For the assembly, k there shall be one statute for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you, a statute forever throughout your generations. You and the sojourner shall be alike before the Lord. 16 One law and one rule shall be for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you."

17 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 18 l "Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land to which I bring you 19 and when you eat of m the bread of the land, you shall present a contribution to the Lord. 20 n Of the first of your dough you shall present a loaf as a contribution; like a o contribution from the threshing floor, so shall you present it. 21 n Some of the first of your dough you shall give to the Lord as a contribution throughout your generations.

Laws About Unintentional Sins

22 p "But if you sin unintentionally, 4 and do not observe all these commandments that the Lord has spoken to Moses, 23 all that the Lord has commanded you by Moses, from the day that the Lord gave commandment, and onward throughout your generations, 24 then if it was done unintentionally q without the knowledge of the congregation, all the congregation shall offer one bull from the herd for a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma to the Lord, r with its grain offering and its drink offering, according to the rule, and s one male goat for a sin offering. 25 t And the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the people of Israel, and they shall be forgiven, because it was a mistake, and they have brought their offering, a food offering to the Lord, and their sin offering before the Lord for their mistake. 26 And all the congregation of the people of Israel shall be forgiven, and the stranger who sojourns among them, because the whole population was involved in the mistake.

27 u "If one person sins unintentionally, he shall offer a female goat a year old for a sin offering. 28 v And the priest shall make atonement before the Lord for the person who makes a mistake, when he sins unintentionally, to make atonement for him, and he shall be forgiven. 29 w You shall have one law for him who does anything unintentionally, for him who is native among the people of Israel and for the stranger who sojourns among them. 30 x But the person who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native or a sojourner, reviles the Lord, and that person shall be cut off from among his people. 31 Because he has y despised the word of the Lord and has broken his commandment, that person shall be utterly cut off; his iniquity shall be on him."

A Sabbathbreaker Executed

32 While the people of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man z gathering sticks on the Sabbath day. 33 And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation. 34 a They put him in custody, because it had not been made clear what should be done to him. 35 And the Lord said to Moses, b "The man shall be put to death; all the congregation shall c stone him with stones outside the camp." 36 And all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death with stones, as the Lord commanded Moses.

Tassels on Garments

37 The Lord said to Moses, 38 "Speak to the people of Israel, and tell them to d make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a cord of blue on the tassel of each corner. 39 And it shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the Lord, to do them, e not to follow 5 after your own heart and your own eyes, which you are inclined f to whore after. 40 So you shall remember and do all my commandments, and be g holy to your God. 41 h I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God: I am the Lord your God."

  1. Cross References
    Numbers 11:4
    Now the rabble that was among them had a strong craving. And the people of Israel also wept again and said, "Oh that we had meat to eat!
  2. Cross References
    Numbers 14:27
    How long shall this wicked congregation grumble...
    Numbers 14:29
    Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness,...
    Numbers 14:33
    And your children shall be shepherds in the wil...
    Numbers 16:41
    But on the next day all the congregation of the...
    Exodus 15:24
    And the people grumbled against Moses, saying, ...
    Exodus 16:2
    And the whole congregation of the people of Isr...
    Exodus 17:3
    But the people thirsted there for water, and th...
    Psalms 106:25
    They murmured in their tents, and did not obey ...
    Joshua 9:18
    But the people of Israel did not attack them, b...
  3. Cross References
    Numbers 14:27 - 29
    How long shall this wicked congregation grumble against me? I have heard the grumblings of the people of Israel, which they grumble against me.
  4. Cross References
    Numbers 14:31
    But your little ones, who you said would become a prey, I will bring in, and they shall know the land that you have rejected.
  5. Cross References
    Nehemiah 9:17
    They refused to obey and were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them, but they stiffened their neck and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and did not forsake them.
  6. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 17:16
    Only he must not acquire many horses for himself or cause the people to return to Egypt in order to acquire many horses, since the Lord has said to you, 'You shall never return that way again.
    Acts 7:39
    Our fathers refused to obey him, but thrust him aside, and in their hearts they turned to Egypt.
  7. Cross References
    Numbers 16:4
    When Moses heard it, he fell on his face.
    Numbers 16:22
    And they fell on their faces and said, "O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?
    Numbers 20:6
    Then Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the entrance of the tent of meeting and fell on their faces. And the glory of the Lord appeared to them.
  8. Cross References
    Numbers 14:30
    Not one shall come into the land where I swore that I would make you dwell, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.
    Numbers 13:6
    From the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
    Numbers 13:8
    From the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun.
  9. Cross References
    Numbers 13:27
    And they told him, "We came to the land to which you sent us. It flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.
    Deuteronomy 1:25
    And they took in their hands some of the fruit of the land and brought it down to us, and brought us word again and said, 'It is a good land that the Lord our God is giving us.
  10. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 10:15
    Yet the Lord set his heart in love on your fath...
    2 Samuel 22:20
    He brought me out into a broad place; he rescue...
    1 Kings 10:9
    Blessed be the Lord your God, who has delighted...
    Psalms 18:19
    He brought me out into a broad place; he rescue...
    Psalms 22:8
    "He trusts in the Lord ; let him deliver him; l...
    Isaiah 62:4
    You shall no more be termed Forsaken, and your ...
  11. Cross References
    Exodus 3:8
    And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
  12. Cross References
    Joshua 22:16
    Thus says the whole congregation of the Lord, 'What is this breach of faith that you have committed against the God of Israel in turning away this day from following the Lord by building yourselves an altar this day in rebellion against the Lord ?
    Joshua 22:18 - 19
    That you too must turn away this day from following the Lord ? And if you too rebel against the Lord today then tomorrow he will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel.
    Joshua 22:29
    Far be it from us that we should rebel against the Lord and turn away this day from following the Lord by building an altar for burnt offering, grain offering, or sacrifice, other than the altar of the Lord our God that stands before his tabernacle!
  13. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 7:18
    You shall not be afraid of them but you shall remember what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt.
    Deuteronomy 20:3
    And shall say to them, 'Hear, O Israel, today you are drawing near for battle against your enemies: let not your heart faint. Do not fear or panic or be in dread of them.
  14. Cross References
    Numbers 24:8
    God brings him out of Egypt and is for him like the horns of the wild ox; he shall eat up the nations, his adversaries, and shall break their bones in pieces and pierce them through with his arrows.
    Psalms 14:4
    Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon the Lord ?
    Psalms 74:14
    You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.
  15. Cross References
    Exodus 17:4
    So Moses cried to the Lord, "What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me.
  16. Cross References
    Leviticus 9:23
    And Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting, and when they came out they blessed the people, and the glory of the Lord appeared to all the people.
  17. Cross References
    Numbers 14:23
    Shall see the land that I swore to give to their fathers. And none of those who despised me shall see it.
    Numbers 16:30
    But if the Lord creates something new, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall know that these men have despised the Lord.
  18. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 1:32
    Yet in spite of this word you did not believe t...
    Deuteronomy 9:23
    And when the Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, ...
    Psalms 78:22
    Because they did not believe in God and did not...
    Psalms 78:32
    In spite of all this, they still sinned; despit...
    Psalms 106:24
    Then they despised the pleasant land, having no...
    Hebrews 3:18
    And to whom did he swear that they would not en...
    John 12:37
    Though he had done so many signs before them, t...
  19. Cross References
    Exodus 32:10
    Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them, in order that I may make a great nation of you.
  20. Cross References
    Exodus 32:12
    Why should the Egyptians say, 'With evil intent...
    Deuteronomy 9:28
    Lest the land from which you brought us say, "B...
    Deuteronomy 32:27
    Had I not feared provocation by the enemy, lest...
    Psalms 106:23
    Therefore he said he would destroy them - had n...
    Ezekiel 20:9
    But I acted for the sake of my name, that it sh...
    Ezekiel 20:14
    But I acted for the sake of my name, that it sh...
  21. Cross References
    Exodus 15:14
    The peoples have heard; they tremble; pangs have seized the inhabitants of Philistia.
    Joshua 2:9 - 10
    And said to the men, "I know that the Lord has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.
    Joshua 5:1
    As soon as all the kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan to the west, and all the kings of the Canaanites who were by the sea, heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan for the people of Israel until they had crossed over, their hearts melted and there was no longer any spirit in them because of the people of Israel.
  22. Cross References
    Exodus 13:21
    And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them along the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, that they might travel by day and by night.
  23. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 9:28
    Lest the land from which you brought us say, "Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land that he promised them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness.
    Joshua 7:9
    For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it and will surround us and cut off our name from the earth. And what will you do for your great name?
  24. Cross References
    Exodus 34:6 - 7
    The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, "The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.
  25. Cross References
    Exodus 20:5
    You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me.
  26. Cross References
    Exodus 34:9
    And he said, "If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, please let the Lord go in the midst of us, for it is a stiff-necked people, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.
  27. Cross References
    Psalms 78:38
    Yet he, being compassionate, atoned for their iniquity and did not destroy them; he restrained his anger often and did not stir up all his wrath.
    Psalms 106:45
    For their sake he remembered his covenant, and relented according to the abundance of his steadfast love.
  28. Cross References
    Psalms 106:23
    Therefore he said he would destroy them - had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him, to turn away his wrath from destroying them.
    James 5:16
    Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
    1 John 5:14 - 16
    And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.
  29. Cross References
    Psalms 72:19
    Blessed be his glorious name forever; may the whole earth be filled with his glory! Amen and Amen!
    Habakkuk 2:14
    For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.
  30. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 1:35
    Not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land that I swore to give to your fathers.
    Psalms 95:11
    Therefore I swore in my wrath, "They shall not enter my rest.
    Psalms 106:26
    Therefore he raised his hand and swore to them that he would make them fall in the wilderness.
    Hebrews 3:17 - 18
    And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
  31. Cross References
    Genesis 31:7
    Yet your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times. But God did not permit him to harm me.
    Job 19:3
    These ten times you have cast reproach upon me; are you not ashamed to wrong me?
  32. Cross References
    Numbers 32:11
    Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, because they have not wholly followed me.
    Ezekiel 20:15
    Moreover, I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most glorious of all lands.
    Numbers 26:64
    But among these there was not one of those listed by Moses and Aaron the priest, who had listed the people of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
  33. Cross References
    Numbers 14:6
    And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes
    Numbers 13:6
    From the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
  34. Cross References
    Numbers 32:12
    None except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have wholly followed the Lord.
    Joshua 14:8 - 9
    But my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; yet I wholly followed the Lord my God.
  35. Cross References
    Numbers 14:43
    For there the Amalekites and the Canaanites are facing you, and you shall fall by the sword. Because you have turned back from following the Lord, the Lord will not be with you.
    Numbers 14:45
    Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country came down and defeated them and pursued them, even to Hormah.
    Numbers 13:29
    The Amalekites dwell in the land of the Negeb. The Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the hill country. And the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and along the Jordan.
  36. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 1:40
    But as for you, turn, and journey into the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea.
  37. Cross References
    Numbers 14:35
    I, the Lord, have spoken. Surely this will I do to all this wicked congregation who are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall come to a full end, and there they shall die.
  38. Cross References
    Exodus 16:7
    And in the morning you shall see the glory of the Lord, because he has heard your grumbling against the Lord. For what are we, that you grumble against us?
    Exodus 16:12
    "I have heard the grumbling of the people of Israel. Say to them, 'At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. Then you shall know that I am the Lord your God.'"
  39. Cross References
    Numbers 14:21
    But truly, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord.
    Numbers 14:23
    Shall see the land that I swore to give to their fathers. And none of those who despised me shall see it.
    Numbers 26:65
    For the Lord had said of them, "They shall die in the wilderness." Not one of them was left, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.
  40. Cross References
    Numbers 14:2
    And all the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, "Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness!
  41. Cross References
    1 Corinthians 10:5
    Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
    Hebrews 3:17
    And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
  42. Cross References
    Numbers 1:45
    So all those listed of the people of Israel, by their fathers' houses, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war in Israel -
    Numbers 26:64
    But among these there was not one of those listed by Moses and Aaron the priest, who had listed the people of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
    Deuteronomy 1:35
    Not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land that I swore to give to your fathers.
  43. Cross References
    Numbers 1:3
    From twenty years old and upward, all in Israel who are able to go to war, you and Aaron shall list them, company by company.
    Exodus 30:14
    Everyone who is numbered in the census, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the Lord 's offering.
  44. Cross References
    Genesis 14:22
    But Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have lifted my hand to the Lord, God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth.
  45. Cross References
    Numbers 14:6
    And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes
    Numbers 14:38
    Of those men who went to spy out the land, only Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive.
    Numbers 13:6
    From the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
  46. Cross References
    Numbers 14:3
    Why is the Lord bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become a prey. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?
    Deuteronomy 1:39
    And as for your little ones, who you said would become a prey, and your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there. And to them I will give it, and they shall possess it.
  47. Cross References
    Psalms 106:24
    Then they despised the pleasant land, having no faith in his promise.
  48. Cross References
    Numbers 14:29
    Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and of all your number, listed in the census from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against me.
  49. Cross References
    Numbers 32:13
    And the Lord 's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the Lord was gone.
    Psalms 107:40
    He pours contempt on princes and makes them wander in trackless wastes.
  50. Cross References
    Psalms 95:10
    For forty years I loathed that generation and said, "They are a people who go astray in their heart, and they have not known my ways.
    Deuteronomy 2:14
    And the time from our leaving Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the brook Zered was thirty-eight years, until the entire generation, that is, the men of war, had perished from the camp, as the Lord had sworn to them.
  51. Cross References
    Ezekiel 23:35
    Therefore thus says the Lord God : Because you have forgotten me and cast me behind your back, you yourself must bear the consequences of your lewdness and whoring.
  52. Cross References
    Numbers 13:25
    At the end of forty days they returned from spying out the land.
  53. Cross References
    Ezekiel 4:6
    And when you have completed these, you shall lie down a second time, but on your right side, and bear the punishment of the house of Judah. Forty days I assign you, a day for each year.
  54. Cross References
    Numbers 23:19
    God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?
  55. Cross References
    Numbers 14:27
    How long shall this wicked congregation grumble against me? I have heard the grumblings of the people of Israel, which they grumble against me.
  56. Cross References
    Numbers 13:32
    So they brought to the people of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying, "The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people that we saw in it are of great height.
  57. Cross References
    1 Corinthians 10:10
    Nor grumble, as some of them did and were destroyed by the Destroyer.
    Hebrews 3:17
    And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
    Jude 1:5
    Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
  58. Cross References
    Numbers 26:65
    For the Lord had said of them, "They shall die in the wilderness." Not one of them was left, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.
    Numbers 13:16
    These were the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.
  59. Cross References
    Exodus 33:4
    When the people heard this disastrous word, they mourned, and no one put on his ornaments.
  60. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 1:41
    Then you answered me, 'We have sinned against the Lord. We ourselves will go up and fight, just as the Lord our God commanded us.' And every one of you fastened on his weapons of war and thought it easy to go up into the hill country.
  61. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 24:20
    Then the Spirit of God clothed Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, and he stood above the people, and said to them, "Thus says God, 'Why do you break the commandments of the Lord, so that you cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken the Lord, he has forsaken you.'
  62. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 1:42
    And the Lord said to me, 'Say to them, Do not go up or fight, for I am not in your midst, lest you be defeated before your enemies.
  63. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 31:17
    Then my anger will be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them and hide my face from them, and they will be devoured. And many evils and troubles will come upon them, so that they will say in that day, 'Have not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?
  64. Cross References
    Numbers 14:25
    Now, since the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valleys, turn tomorrow and set out for the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.
    Numbers 14:45
    Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country came down and defeated them and pursued them, even to Hormah.
    Numbers 13:29
    The Amalekites dwell in the land of the Negeb. The Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the hill country. And the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and along the Jordan.
  65. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 1:43
    So I spoke to you, and you would not listen; but you rebelled against the command of the Lord and presumptuously went up into the hill country.
  66. Cross References
    1 Samuel 4:3
    And when the troops came to the camp, the elders of Israel said, "Why has the Lord defeated us today before the Philistines? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord here from Shiloh, that it may come among us and save us from the power of our enemies.
  67. Cross References
    Numbers 14:43
    For there the Amalekites and the Canaanites are facing you, and you shall fall by the sword. Because you have turned back from following the Lord, the Lord will not be with you.
    Deuteronomy 1:44
    Then the Amorites who lived in that hill country came out against you and chased you as bees do and beat you down in Seir as far as Hormah.
  68. Cross References
    Numbers 21:3
    And the Lord heeded the voice of Israel and gave over the Canaanites, and they devoted them and their cities to destruction. So the name of the place was called Hormah.
    Judges 1:17
    And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they defeated the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath and devoted it to destruction. So the name of the city was called Hormah.
  69. Cross References
    Numbers 15:18
    Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land to which I bring you
    Leviticus 23:10
    Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land that I give you and reap its harvest, you shall bring the sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest.
    Deuteronomy 26:1
    When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance and have taken possession of it and live in it.
  70. Cross References
    Leviticus 1:2 - 3
    Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When any one of you brings an offering to the Lord, you shall bring your offering of livestock from the herd or from the flock.
  71. Cross References
    Leviticus 22:21
    And when anyone offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering from the herd or from the flock, to be accepted it must be perfect; there shall be no blemish in it.
    Leviticus 27:2
    Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, If anyone makes a special vow to the Lord involving the valuation of persons.
  72. Cross References
    Numbers 28:19
    But offer a food offering, a burnt offering to ...
    Numbers 28:27
    But offer a burnt offering, with a pleasing aro...
    Leviticus 23:8
    But you shall present a food offering to the Lo...
    Leviticus 23:12
    And on the day when you wave the sheaf, you sha...
    Leviticus 23:36
    For seven days you shall present food offerings...
    Deuteronomy 16:10
    Then you shall keep the Feast of Weeks to the L...
  73. Cross References
    Exodus 29:18
    And burn the whole ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the Lord. It is a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the Lord.
    Leviticus 4:31
    And all its fat he shall remove, as the fat is removed from the peace offerings, and the priest shall burn it on the altar for a pleasing aroma to the Lord. And the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be forgiven.
    Genesis 8:21
    And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, "I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.
  74. Cross References
    Leviticus 2:1
    When anyone brings a grain offering as an offering to the Lord, his offering shall be of fine flour. He shall pour oil on it and put frankincense on it
    Leviticus 6:14
    And this is the law of the grain offering. The sons of Aaron shall offer it before the Lord in front of the altar.
  75. Cross References
    Exodus 29:40
    And with the first lamb a tenth seah of fine flour mingled with a fourth of a hin of beaten oil, and a fourth of a hin of wine for a drink offering.
    Leviticus 23:13
    And the grain offering with it shall be two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, a food offering to the Lord with a pleasing aroma, and the drink offering with it shall be of wine, a fourth of a hin.
  76. Cross References
    Numbers 28:5
    Also a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with a quarter of a hin of beaten oil.
    Leviticus 14:10
    And on the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish, and a grain offering of three tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, and one log of oil.
  77. Cross References
    Numbers 28:7
    Its drink offering shall be a quarter of a hin for each lamb. In the Holy Place you shall pour out a drink offering of strong drink to the Lord.
    Numbers 28:14
    Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, a third of a hin for a ram, and a quarter of a hin for a lamb. This is the burnt offering of each month throughout the months of the year.
  78. Cross References
    Numbers 28:12
    Also three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, for each bull, and two tenths of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, for the one ram.
    Numbers 28:14
    Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, a third of a hin for a ram, and a quarter of a hin for a lamb. This is the burnt offering of each month throughout the months of the year.
  79. Cross References
    Numbers 15:3
    And you offer to the Lord from the herd or from the flock a food offering or a burnt offering or a sacrifice, to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering or at your appointed feasts, to make a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
  80. Cross References
    Numbers 15:3
    And you offer to the Lord from the herd or from the flock a food offering or a burnt offering or a sacrifice, to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering or at your appointed feasts, to make a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
  81. Cross References
    Leviticus 7:11
    And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings that one may offer to the Lord.
  82. Cross References
    Numbers 28:12
    Also three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, for each bull, and two tenths of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, for the one ram.
    Numbers 28:14
    Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, a third of a hin for a ram, and a quarter of a hin for a lamb. This is the burnt offering of each month throughout the months of the year.
    Leviticus 6:14 - 17
    And this is the law of the grain offering. The sons of Aaron shall offer it before the Lord in front of the altar.
  83. Cross References
    Numbers 28:1
    The Lord spoke to Moses, saying.
  84. Cross References
    Numbers 15:29 - 30
    You shall have one law for him who does anything unintentionally, for him who is native among the people of Israel and for the stranger who sojourns among them.
    Numbers 9:14
    And if a stranger sojourns among you and would keep the Passover to the Lord, according to the statute of the Passover and according to its rule, so shall he do. You shall have one statute, both for the sojourner and for the native.
    Exodus 12:49
    There shall be one law for the native and for the stranger who sojourns among you.
  85. Cross References
    Numbers 15:2
    Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land you are to inhabit, which I am giving you.
  86. Cross References
    Joshua 5:11 - 12
    And the day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate of the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and parched grain.
  87. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 26:2
    You shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from your land that the Lord your God is giving you, and you shall put it in a basket, and you shall go to the place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name to dwell there.
    Deuteronomy 26:10
    And behold, now I bring the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, O Lord, have given me.' And you shall set it down before the Lord your God and worship before the Lord your God.
    Nehemiah 10:37
    And to bring the first of our dough, and our contributions, the fruit of every tree, the wine and the oil, to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and to bring to the Levites the tithes from our ground, for it is the Levites who collect the tithes in all our towns where we labor.
    Ezekiel 44:30
    And the first of all the firstfruits of all kinds, and every offering of all kinds from all your offerings, shall belong to the priests. You shall also give to the priests the first of your dough, that a blessing may rest on your house.
  88. Cross References
    Leviticus 2:14
    If you offer a grain offering of firstfruits to the Lord, you shall offer for the grain offering of your firstfruits fresh ears, roasted with fire, crushed new grain.
    Leviticus 23:10 - 17
    Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land that I give you and reap its harvest, you shall bring the sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest.
  89. Cross References
    Numbers 15:20
    Of the first of your dough you shall present a loaf as a contribution; like a contribution from the threshing floor, so shall you present it.
  90. Cross References
    Leviticus 4:2
    Speak to the people of Israel, saying, If anyone sins unintentionally in any of the Lord 's commandments about things not to be done, and does any one of them.
  91. Cross References
    Leviticus 4:13
    If the whole congregation of Israel sins unintentionally and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they do any one of the things that by the Lord 's commandments ought not to be done, and they realize their guilt.
  92. Cross References
    Numbers 15:8 - 10
    And when you offer a bull as a burnt offering or sacrifice, to fulfill a vow or for peace offerings to the Lord.
  93. Cross References
    Numbers 28:15
    Also one male goat for a sin offering to the Lord ; it shall be offered besides the regular burnt offering and its drink offering.
    Leviticus 4:23
    Or the sin which he has committed is made known to him, he shall bring as his offering a goat, a male without blemish.
  94. Cross References
    Leviticus 4:20
    Thus shall he do with the bull. As he did with the bull of the sin offering, so shall he do with this. And the priest shall make atonement for them, and they shall be forgiven.
  95. Cross References
    Leviticus 4:27 - 28
    If anyone of the common people sins unintentionally in doing any one of the things that by the Lord 's commandments ought not to be done, and realizes his guilt.
  96. Cross References
    Leviticus 4:35
    And all its fat he shall remove as the fat of the lamb is removed from the sacrifice of peace offerings, and the priest shall burn it on the altar, on top of the Lord 's food offerings. And the priest shall make atonement for him for the sin which he has committed, and he shall be forgiven.
  97. Cross References
    Numbers 15:15
    For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you, a statute forever throughout your generations. You and the sojourner shall be alike before the Lord.
  98. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 17:12
    The man who acts presumptuously by not obeying the priest who stands to minister there before the Lord your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.
    Psalms 19:13
    Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me! Then I shall be blameless, and innocent of great transgression.
    Hebrews 10:26
    For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins.
  99. Cross References
    2 Samuel 12:9
    Why have you despised the word of the Lord, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.
    2 Chronicles 36:16
    But they kept mocking the messengers of God, despising his words and scoffing at his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord rose against his people, until there was no remedy.
    Proverbs 13:13
    Whoever despises the word brings destruction on himself, but he who reveres the commandment will be rewarded.
  100. Cross References
    Exodus 35:3
    You shall kindle no fire in all your dwelling places on the Sabbath day.
    Exodus 20:8 - 9
    Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
  101. Cross References
    Leviticus 24:12
    And they put him in custody, till the will of the Lord should be clear to them.
  102. Cross References
    Exodus 31:14 - 15
    You shall keep the Sabbath, because it is holy for you. Everyone who profanes it shall be put to death. Whoever does any work on it, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
  103. Cross References
    Leviticus 24:14 - 16
    Bring out of the camp the one who cursed, and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.
    Joshua 7:25
    And Joshua said, "Why did you bring trouble on us? The Lord brings trouble on you today." And all Israel stoned him with stones. They burned them with fire and stoned them with stones.
    1 Kings 21:13
    And the two worthless men came in and sat opposite him. And the worthless men brought a charge against Naboth in the presence of the people, saying, "Naboth cursed God and the king." So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death with stones.
    Acts 7:58
    Then they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
  104. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 22:12
    You shall make yourself tassels on the four corners of the garment with which you cover yourself.
    Matthew 23:5
    They do all their deeds to be seen by others. For they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long.
  105. Cross References
    Job 31:7
    If my step has turned aside from the way and my heart has gone after my eyes, and if any spot has stuck to my hands.
    Ecclesiastes 11:9
    Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
    Ezekiel 6:9
    Then those of you who escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and over their eyes that go whoring after their idols. And they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their abominations.
  106. Cross References
    Psalms 73:27
    For behold, those who are far from you shall perish; you put an end to everyone who is unfaithful to you.
    Psalms 106:39
    Thus they became unclean by their acts, and played the whore in their deeds.
    Ezekiel 6:9
    Then those of you who escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and over their eyes that go whoring after their idols. And they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their abominations.
  107. Cross References
    Leviticus 11:44
    For I am the Lord your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls on the ground.
  108. Cross References
    Leviticus 22:33
    Who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God: I am the Lord.
    Leviticus 20:8
    Keep my statutes and do them; I am the Lord who sanctifies you.
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