From: ngninja@baptist.email   
      
   Bible Reading for February 17   
      
   Numbers Chapter 14   
      
   1 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the   
   people wept that night.   
      
   2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against   
   Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had   
   died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!   
      
   3 And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto 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 And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return   
   into Egypt.   
      
   5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of   
   the congregation of the children of Israel.   
      
   6 And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were   
   of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:   
      
   7 And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying,   
   The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.   
      
   8 If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and   
   give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.   
      
   9 Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the   
   land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them,   
   and the LORD is with us: fear them not.   
      
   10 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 And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me?   
   and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I   
   have shewed among them?   
      
   12 I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will   
   make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.   
      
   13 And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for   
   thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;)   
      
   14 And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have   
   heard that thou LORD art among this people, that thou LORD art seen face   
   to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest   
   before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire   
   by night.   
      
   15 Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations   
   which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,   
      
   16 Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land   
   which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.   
      
   17 And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according   
   as thou hast spoken, saying,   
      
   18 The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and   
   transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the   
   iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth   
   generation.   
      
   19 Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto   
   the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from   
   Egypt even until now.   
      
   20 And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word:   
      
   21 But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory   
   of the LORD.   
      
   22 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 hearkened to my voice;   
      
   23 Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers,   
   neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:   
      
   24 But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and   
   hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he   
   went; and his seed shall possess it.   
      
   25 (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To   
   morrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.   
      
   26 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,   
      
   27 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 Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken   
   in mine ears, so will I do to you:   
      
   29 Your carcases 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 Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware   
   to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua   
   the son of Nun.   
      
   31 But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I   
   bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.   
      
   32 But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.   
      
   33 And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and   
   bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.   
      
   34 After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even   
   forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even   
   forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.   
      
   35 I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil   
   congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness   
   they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.   
      
   36 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 upon the land,   
      
   37 Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died   
   by the plague before the LORD.   
      
   38 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 And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the   
   people mourned greatly.   
      
   40 And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top   
   of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place   
   which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned.   
      
   41 And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the   
   LORD? but it shall not prosper.   
      
   42 Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smitten   
   before your enemies.   
      
   43 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye   
   shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD,   
   therefore the LORD will not be with you.   
      
   44 But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of   
   the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.   
      
   45 Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that   
   hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah.   
      
   Numbers Chapter 15   
      
   1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,   
      
   2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come   
   into the land of your habitations, which I give unto you,   
      
   3 And will make an offering by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, or   
   a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a freewill offering, or in your   
      
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