## Numbers Chapter 14

###### Numbers 14:1
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וַתִּשָּׂא֙ כׇּל־הָ֣עֵדָ֔ה וַֽיִּתְּנ֖וּ אֶת־קוֹלָ֑ם וַיִּבְכּ֥וּ הָעָ֖ם בַּלַּ֥יְלָה הַהֽוּא׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
The entire community arose and raised their voices; and the people wept that night.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And the entire congregation [the Sanhedrin] lifted their voice and clamored and the people cried on that night.


###### Numbers 14:2
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וַיִּלֹּ֙נוּ֙ עַל־מֹשֶׁ֣ה וְעַֽל־אַהֲרֹ֔ן כֹּ֖ל בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַֽיֹּאמְר֨וּ אֲלֵהֶ֜ם כׇּל־הָעֵדָ֗ה לוּ־מַ֙תְנוּ֙ בְּאֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרַ֔יִם א֛וֹ בַּמִּדְבָּ֥ר הַזֶּ֖ה לוּ־מָֽתְנוּ׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
They railed against Moshe and Aharon—all of Bnei Yisroel—and the entire congregation said to them: “Would we had died in the land of Egypt or in this desert, would that we had died.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
And all the children of Yisra᾽el murmured against Moshe and against Aharon: and the whole congregation said to them, Would that we had died in the land of Miżrayim! or would we had died in this wilderness!

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And all of the children of Israel railed against Moses and Aaron, and the entire congregation said to them: Would that we had died in the land of Egypt, or would that we had died in this desert!


###### Numbers 14:3
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וְלָמָ֣ה יְ֠הֹוָ֠ה מֵבִ֨יא אֹתָ֜נוּ אֶל־הָאָ֤רֶץ הַזֹּאת֙ לִנְפֹּ֣ל בַּחֶ֔רֶב נָשֵׁ֥ינוּ וְטַפֵּ֖נוּ יִהְי֣וּ לָבַ֑ז הֲל֧וֹא ט֦וֹב לָ֖נוּ שׁ֥וּב מִצְרָֽיְמָה׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Why does Adonoy bring us into this land to fall by the sword; our wives and infants would be as spoils; is it not better for us to return to Egypt?”

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
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 to Miżrayim?

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And why is the L-rd bringing us to this land to fall by the sword, (with) our wives and little ones to be taken as spoil? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?


###### Numbers 14:4
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וַיֹּאמְר֖וּ אִ֣ישׁ אֶל־אָחִ֑יו נִתְּנָ֥ה רֹ֖אשׁ וְנָשׁ֥וּבָה מִצְרָֽיְמָה׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
They said to each other: “Let us appoint (lit. place) a head and we will return to Egypt.”

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
And they said to one another, Let us appoint a chief, and let us return to Miżrayim.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And one man said to the other: Let us make a leader and return to Egypt.


###### Numbers 14:5
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וַיִּפֹּ֥ל מֹשֶׁ֛ה וְאַהֲרֹ֖ן עַל־פְּנֵיהֶ֑ם לִפְנֵ֕י כׇּל־קְהַ֥ל עֲדַ֖ת בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Moshe and Aharon fell on their faces before the entire gathering of the congregation of Bnei Yisroel.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Then Moshe and Aharon fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Yisra᾽el.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before the entire assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.


###### Numbers 14:6
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וִיהוֹשֻׁ֣עַ בִּן־נ֗וּן וְכָלֵב֙ בֶּן־יְפֻנֶּ֔ה מִן־הַתָּרִ֖ים אֶת־הָאָ֑רֶץ קָרְע֖וּ בִּגְדֵיהֶֽם׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Yehoshua the son of Nun and Caleiv the son of Yefuneh, who were among those who scouted the land, tore their clothing [in grief].

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
And Yehoshua the son of Nun, and Kalev the son of Yefunne, of those who spied out the land, rent their clothes:

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And Yehoshua bin Nun and Calev ben Yefuneh, of those who had spied out the land, rent their garments.


###### Numbers 14:7
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וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ אֶל־כׇּל־עֲדַ֥ת בְּנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לֵאמֹ֑ר הָאָ֗רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֨ר עָבַ֤רְנוּ בָהּ֙ לָת֣וּר אֹתָ֔הּ טוֹבָ֥ה הָאָ֖רֶץ מְאֹ֥ד מְאֹֽד׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
They said to the entire congregation of Bnei Yisroel, saying: “The land through which we have passed to scout it; that land is very, very good.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
and they spoke to all the congregation of the children of Yisra᾽el, saying, The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And they spoke to the entire congregation of the children of Israel, saying: The land which we passed through to spy out — the land is good, extremely good.


###### Numbers 14:8
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אִם־חָפֵ֥ץ בָּ֙נוּ֙ יְהֹוָ֔ה וְהֵבִ֤יא אֹתָ֙נוּ֙ אֶל־הָאָ֣רֶץ הַזֹּ֔את וּנְתָנָ֖הּ לָ֑נוּ אֶ֕רֶץ אֲשֶׁר־הִ֛וא זָבַ֥ת חָלָ֖ב וּדְבָֽשׁ׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
If Adonoy desires us, He will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land which flows with milk and honey.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
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.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
If the L-rd desires us, He will bring us to this land, and He will give it to us, a land which flows milk and honey.


###### Numbers 14:9
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אַ֣ךְ בַּיהֹוָה֮ אַל־תִּמְרֹ֒דוּ֒ וְאַתֶּ֗ם אַל־תִּֽירְאוּ֙ אֶת־עַ֣ם הָאָ֔רֶץ כִּ֥י לַחְמֵ֖נוּ הֵ֑ם סָ֣ר צִלָּ֧ם מֵעֲלֵיהֶ֛ם וַֽיהֹוָ֥ה אִתָּ֖נוּ אַל־תִּירָאֻֽם׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
However, do not rebel against Adonoy and you do not be afraid of the nation of the land, for they are [as] our bread, their protection is removed from them, and Adonoy is with us; do not be afraid of them.”

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Only rebel not against the Lord, nor fear 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.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Only against the L-rd do not rebel, and you will no longer fear the people of the land, for they are our "bread" [to be consumed by us]: Their shade has departed from them [i.e., their worthy ones, who shielded them, (e.g., Iyyov) have died], and the L-rd is with us; do not fear them.


###### Numbers 14:10
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וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ כׇּל־הָ֣עֵדָ֔ה לִרְגּ֥וֹם אֹתָ֖ם בָּאֲבָנִ֑ים וּכְב֣וֹד יְהֹוָ֗ה נִרְאָה֙ בְּאֹ֣הֶל מוֹעֵ֔ד אֶֽל־כׇּל־בְּנֵ֖י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃{פ}

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
The entire congregation said that they should be stoned to death, when the glory of Adonoy appeared in the Tent of Meeting, to all of Bnei Yisroel.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
But all the congregation said to stone them with stones. And the glory of the Lord appeared in the Tent of Meeting before all the children of Yisra᾽el.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And the entire congregation said to stone them [Yehoshua and Calev], and the glory of the L-rd appeared in the tent of meeting [(the cloud descended there)] to all the children of Israel.


###### Numbers 14:11
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וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יְהֹוָה֙ אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֔ה עַד־אָ֥נָה יְנַאֲצֻ֖נִי הָעָ֣ם הַזֶּ֑ה וְעַד־אָ֙נָה֙ לֹא־יַאֲמִ֣ינוּ בִ֔י בְּכֹל֙ הָֽאֹת֔וֹת אֲשֶׁ֥ר עָשִׂ֖יתִי בְּקִרְבּֽוֹ׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Adonoy said to Moshe: “Until where will this people provoke Me, and how much longer will they have no faith in Me, despite all the signs which I have done in their midst.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
And the Lord said to Moshe, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be before they believe me, for all the signs which I have performed among them?

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And the L-rd said to Moses: How long will this people provoke Me, and how long will they not believe in Me, after all the signs that I wrought in their midst!


###### Numbers 14:12
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אַכֶּ֥נּוּ בַדֶּ֖בֶר וְאוֹרִשֶׁ֑נּוּ וְאֶֽעֱשֶׂה֙ אֹֽתְךָ֔ לְגוֹי־גָּד֥וֹל וְעָצ֖וּם מִמֶּֽנּוּ׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
I shall smite them with the plague and annihilate them; and I shall make you into a greater and stronger people than they.”

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
I shall smite them with the pestilence and eradicate them, and [as for My oath to the patriarchs], I shall make you a nation greater and mightier than they.


###### Numbers 14:13
[Numbers 14:13](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Numbers/r/14:13)

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר מֹשֶׁ֖ה אֶל־יְהֹוָ֑ה וְשָׁמְע֣וּ מִצְרַ֔יִם כִּֽי־הֶעֱלִ֧יתָ בְכֹחֲךָ֛ אֶת־הָעָ֥ם הַזֶּ֖ה מִקִּרְבּֽוֹ׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Moshe said to Adonoy: “But Egypt will hear, that You, in Your might have brought up this people from among them.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
And Moshe said to the Lord, Then Miżrayim shall hear it, (for thou didst bring up this people in thy might from among them;)

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And Moses said to the L-rd: When Egypt, from whose midst You with Your might, brought up this people, will hear [of Your destroying them],


###### Numbers 14:14
[Numbers 14:14](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Numbers/r/14:14)

וְאָמְר֗וּ אֶל־יוֹשֵׁב֮ הָאָ֣רֶץ הַזֹּאת֒ שָֽׁמְעוּ֙ כִּֽי־אַתָּ֣ה יְהֹוָ֔ה בְּקֶ֖רֶב הָעָ֣ם הַזֶּ֑ה אֲשֶׁר־עַ֨יִן בְּעַ֜יִן נִרְאָ֣ה**׀** אַתָּ֣ה יְהֹוָ֗ה וַעֲנָֽנְךָ֙ עֹמֵ֣ד עֲלֵהֶ֔ם וּבְעַמֻּ֣ד עָנָ֗ן אַתָּ֨ה הֹלֵ֤ךְ לִפְנֵיהֶם֙ יוֹמָ֔ם וּבְעַמּ֥וּד אֵ֖שׁ לָֽיְלָה׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
They will say concerning the inhabitants of this land, they have heard that You, Adonoy, are among this people, Who appears to them eye to eye (face to face), You, Adonoy; Your Cloud stands over them, in a Pillar of Cloud You go before them daily and in a Pillar of Fire, nightly.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: who have heard that thou Lord art among this people, that thou Lord art seen face to face, and that thy cloud stands over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
They will say about the inhabitants of this land: They have heard that You, the L-rd, are in the midst of this people, that face to face You, the L-rd, appear to them, and that Your cloud stands over them, and that in a pillar of cloud You go before them by day and in a pillar of fire by night —


###### Numbers 14:15
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וְהֵמַתָּ֛ה אֶת־הָעָ֥ם הַזֶּ֖ה כְּאִ֣ישׁ אֶחָ֑ד וְאָֽמְרוּ֙ הַגּוֹיִ֔ם אֲשֶׁר־שָׁמְע֥וּ אֶֽת־שִׁמְעֲךָ֖ לֵאמֹֽר׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
If You kill this nation like a single man, the nations will say—they who have heard of Your reputation—as follows:

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
If You put this people to death as one man — [(Egypt will say that)] the nations who heard of You [i.e., of Your great love for Israel, (not knowing of their having sinned against You)] will say:


###### Numbers 14:16
[Numbers 14:16](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Numbers/r/14:16)

מִבִּלְתִּ֞י יְכֹ֣לֶת יְהֹוָ֗ה לְהָבִיא֙ אֶת־הָעָ֣ם הַזֶּ֔ה אֶל־הָאָ֖רֶץ אֲשֶׁר־נִשְׁבַּ֣ע לָהֶ֑ם וַיִּשְׁחָטֵ֖ם בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
“It is because of Adonoy’s inability to bring this people into the land that He swore to them, that he slaughtered them in the desert.”

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
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.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
It is because of the L-rd's inability to bring this people into the land that He swore to (give) them, [(G-d being able to overcome one king (Pharaoh) but not thirty-one)], that He slaughtered them in the desert.


###### Numbers 14:17
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וְעַתָּ֕ה יִגְדַּל־נָ֖א כֹּ֣חַ אֲדֹנָ֑י כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר דִּבַּ֖רְתָּ לֵאמֹֽר׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Now, please, let my Master’s power be enhanced as You spoke, saying;

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
And now, I pray thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And now, let the power of the L-rd be magnified, I pray You, as You have spoken [See Sanhedrin 111a]:


###### Numbers 14:18
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יְהֹוָ֗ה אֶ֤רֶךְ אַפַּ֙יִם֙ וְרַב־חֶ֔סֶד נֹשֵׂ֥א עָוֺ֖ן וָפָ֑שַׁע וְנַקֵּה֙ לֹ֣א יְנַקֶּ֔ה פֹּקֵ֞ד עֲוֺ֤ן אָבוֹת֙ עַל־בָּנִ֔ים עַל־שִׁלֵּשִׁ֖ים וְעַל־רִבֵּעִֽים׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Adonoy, slow to anger and abounding in kindness, forgiving iniquity, and transgression; Who does not completely acquit, Who will visit the inquities of the fathers upon their children, to the third [generation] and to the fourth [generation.]

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
The Lord is longsuffering, and great in love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but by no means clearing the guilty, punishing the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
"The L-rd withholds wrath and He is abundant in lovingkindness. He forgives sin and rebellion, and He absolves [those who repent] (and) He does not absolve [those who do not repent]. He remembers the sins of fathers upon sons, upon the third [generation] and upon the fourth."


###### Numbers 14:19
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סְלַֽח־נָ֗א לַעֲוֺ֛ן הָעָ֥ם הַזֶּ֖ה כְּגֹ֣דֶל חַסְדֶּ֑ךָ וְכַאֲשֶׁ֤ר נָשָׂ֙אתָה֙ לָעָ֣ם הַזֶּ֔ה מִמִּצְרַ֖יִם וְעַד־הֵֽנָּה׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Please forgive this people according the magnitude of Your kindness, and as You have borne this people since Egypt until this time.”

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Pardon, I pray thee, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of thy love, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Miżrayim until now.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Forgive, I pray You, the sin of this people in the greatness of Your lovingkindness, and as You have forgiven this people from Egypt until now.


###### Numbers 14:20
[Numbers 14:20](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Numbers/r/14:20)

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יְהֹוָ֔ה סָלַ֖חְתִּי כִּדְבָרֶֽךָ׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Adonoy said, “I have forgiven them, just as you spoke.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
And the Lord said, I have pardoned according to thy word:

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And the L-rd said: I have forgiven because of your words [viz., lest they say: "It is because of the L-rd's inability, etc."]


###### Numbers 14:21
[Numbers 14:21](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Numbers/r/14:21)

וְאוּלָ֖ם חַי־אָ֑נִי וְיִמָּלֵ֥א כְבוֹד־יְהֹוָ֖ה אֶת־כׇּל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
However, just as I live and the Glory of Adonoy fills the entire land;

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
but truly, as I live, and all the earth is filled with the glory of the Lord:

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
However, [I swear that] as I live and as the glory of the L-rd fills all the earth,


###### Numbers 14:22
[Numbers 14:22](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Numbers/r/14:22)

כִּ֣י כׇל־הָאֲנָשִׁ֗ים הָרֹאִ֤ים אֶת־כְּבֹדִי֙ וְאֶת־אֹ֣תֹתַ֔י אֲשֶׁר־עָשִׂ֥יתִי בְמִצְרַ֖יִם וּבַמִּדְבָּ֑ר וַיְנַסּ֣וּ אֹתִ֗י זֶ֚ה עֶ֣שֶׂר פְּעָמִ֔ים וְלֹ֥א שָׁמְע֖וּ בְּקוֹלִֽי׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
For, all the people who see My glory and My signs which I have done in Egypt and in the desert, and they have tested Me these ten times and they have not listened to My voice.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
surely, all those men who have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Miżrayim and in the wilderness, and yet have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice:

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
That all the men who saw My glory and My signs that I performed in Egypt and in the desert, and who proved Me this ten times [see Erchin 15a] and did not hearken to My voice —


###### Numbers 14:23
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אִם־יִרְאוּ֙ אֶת־הָאָ֔רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֥ר נִשְׁבַּ֖עְתִּי לַאֲבֹתָ֑ם וְכׇל־מְנַאֲצַ֖י לֹ֥א יִרְאֽוּהָ׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
If they will see the land that I have sworn to their fathers; all those who angered Me will not see it.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
surely, they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who provoked me see it:

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
They shall not see the land that I swore to their forefathers, and all who provoke Me shall not see it.


###### Numbers 14:24
[Numbers 14:24](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Numbers/r/14:24)

וְעַבְדִּ֣י כָלֵ֗ב עֵ֣קֶב הָֽיְתָ֞ה ר֤וּחַ אַחֶ֙רֶת֙ עִמּ֔וֹ וַיְמַלֵּ֖א אַחֲרָ֑י וַהֲבִֽיאֹתִ֗יו אֶל־הָאָ֙רֶץ֙ אֲשֶׁר־בָּ֣א שָׁ֔מָּה וְזַרְע֖וֹ יוֹרִשֶֽׁנָּה׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
My servant Caleiv, because he possesed in him a different spirit, and followed Me fully, I shall bring him into the land to which he came, and his children will cast [its inhabitants] from it.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
but my servant Kalev, because he had another spirit with him, and followed me fully, him will I bring into the land into which he went; and his seed shall possess it,

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And My servant Calev, because he had a different spirit in him, [telling the spies one thing ("I am with you"), but intending to speak the truth (see 13:30)], and he filled [his heart to follow] after Me, I shall bring him to the land where he came [(Chevron shall be given to him)], and his seed will drive out [its inhabitants].


###### Numbers 14:25
[Numbers 14:25](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Numbers/r/14:25)

וְהָעֲמָלֵקִ֥י וְהַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֖י יוֹשֵׁ֣ב בָּעֵ֑מֶק מָחָ֗ר פְּנ֨וּ וּסְע֥וּ לָכֶ֛ם הַמִּדְבָּ֖ר דֶּ֥רֶךְ יַם־סֽוּף׃{פ}

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
The Amaleki and the Cana’ani are now dwelling in the valley. Tomorrow turn back and you shall travel the desert by way of the Reed Sea.”

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
(Now the ῾Amaleqi and the Kena῾ani dwelt in the valley.) Tomorrow turn, and get you into the wilderness by way of the Sea of Suf.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And the Amaleki and the Canaani dwell in the valley [(If you go there they will kill you, for I will not be with you.)] Tomorrow, turn back, and travel in the desert by way of the Red Sea.


###### Numbers 14:26
[Numbers 14:26](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Numbers/r/14:26)

וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר יְהֹוָ֔ה אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֥ה וְאֶֽל־אַהֲרֹ֖ן לֵאמֹֽר׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Adonoy spoke to Moshe and to Aharon, saying:

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
And the Lord spoke to Moshe and to Aharon, saying,

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And the L-rd spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying:


###### Numbers 14:27
[Numbers 14:27](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Numbers/r/14:27)

עַד־מָתַ֗י לָעֵדָ֤ה הָֽרָעָה֙ הַזֹּ֔את אֲשֶׁ֛ר הֵ֥מָּה מַלִּינִ֖ים עָלָ֑י אֶת־תְּלֻנּ֞וֹת בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל אֲשֶׁ֨ר הֵ֧מָּה מַלִּינִ֛ים עָלַ֖י שָׁמָֽעְתִּי׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
“Until when will this wicked congregation [exist], those who provoke Me? The complaints of Bnei Yisroel, which they complain against Me, I have heard.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, who murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Yisra᾽el, which they murmur against me.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
How long for this evil congregation [the spies (whence it is derived that a "congregation" is ten)], who stir up complaint against Me? The complaints of the children of Israel, whom they [the spies] stir up against Me, have I heard.


###### Numbers 14:28
[Numbers 14:28](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Numbers/r/14:28)

אֱמֹ֣ר אֲלֵהֶ֗ם חַי־אָ֙נִי֙ נְאֻם־יְהֹוָ֔ה אִם־לֹ֕א כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר דִּבַּרְתֶּ֖ם בְּאׇזְנָ֑י כֵּ֖ן אֶֽעֱשֶׂ֥ה לָכֶֽם׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Say to them: “As I live, says Adonoy, if I do not [do to you] as you have spoken in My ears; so I shall do to you.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Say to them, As I live, says the Lord, as you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you:

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Say to them: As I live, says the L-rd — Just as you have spoken in My ears [(2): "…or would that we had died in this desert"] — thus shall I do to you.


###### Numbers 14:29
[Numbers 14:29](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Numbers/r/14:29)

בַּמִּדְבָּ֣ר הַ֠זֶּ֠ה יִפְּל֨וּ פִגְרֵיכֶ֜ם וְכׇל־פְּקֻדֵיכֶם֙ לְכׇל־מִסְפַּרְכֶ֔ם מִבֶּ֛ן עֶשְׂרִ֥ים שָׁנָ֖ה וָמָ֑עְלָה אֲשֶׁ֥ר הֲלִֽינֹתֶ֖ם עָלָֽי׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
In this desert your corpses shall fall, all of you who were counted according to your numbers, from twenty years and above, because you have complained against Me,

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
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, who have murmured against me,

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
In this desert shall your carcasses fall, and all your number according to all of your count [i.e., according to any count that you take, such as for army duty or for the giving of shekalim] from twenty years and above [(excluding the Levites, who are not counted from twenty)], whom you stirred up against Me.


###### Numbers 14:30
[Numbers 14:30](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Numbers/r/14:30)

אִם־אַתֶּם֙ תָּבֹ֣אוּ אֶל־הָאָ֔רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֤ר נָשָׂ֙אתִי֙ אֶת־יָדִ֔י לְשַׁכֵּ֥ן אֶתְכֶ֖ם בָּ֑הּ כִּ֚י אִם־כָּלֵ֣ב בֶּן־יְפֻנֶּ֔ה וִיהוֹשֻׁ֖עַ בִּן־נֽוּן׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Surely you shall [not] come into the land to which I raised My Hand [to swear] that I would cause you to live in it; except for Caleiv the son of Yefuneh and Yehoshua the son of Nun.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
shall by no means come into the land, concerning which I swore to make you dwell there, except Kalev the son of Yefunne, and Yehoshua the son of Nun.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
If you come (i.e., you shall not come) to the land concerning which I lifted My hand (in oath) to settle you therein — except Calev ben Yefuneh and Yehoshua bin Nun.


###### Numbers 14:31
[Numbers 14:31](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Numbers/r/14:31)

וְטַ֨פְּכֶ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֲמַרְתֶּ֖ם לָבַ֣ז יִהְיֶ֑ה וְהֵבֵיאתִ֣י אֹתָ֔ם וְיָֽדְעוּ֙ אֶת־הָאָ֔רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֥ר מְאַסְתֶּ֖ם בָּֽהּ׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Your infants, about whom you said that they will be as spoils, I shall bring them [there] and they will know the land which you despised.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
But your little ones, who, you said, should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which you have despised.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And your little ones, of whom you said that they would fall spoil — I shall bring them (into the land), and they will know the land which you despised.


###### Numbers 14:32
[Numbers 14:32](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Numbers/r/14:32)

וּפִגְרֵיכֶ֖ם אַתֶּ֑ם יִפְּל֖וּ בַּמִּדְבָּ֥ר הַזֶּֽה׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Your corpses—yours, shall fall in this desert.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
But as for you, your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
But as for you — your carcasses shall fall in this desert.


###### Numbers 14:33
[Numbers 14:33](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Numbers/r/14:33)

וּ֠בְנֵיכֶ֠ם יִהְי֨וּ רֹעִ֤ים בַּמִּדְבָּר֙ אַרְבָּעִ֣ים שָׁנָ֔ה וְנָשְׂא֖וּ אֶת־זְנוּתֵיכֶ֑ם עַד־תֹּ֥ם פִּגְרֵיכֶ֖ם בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Your children, they shall be wanderers in the desert for forty years, and they will bear [the burden of] your dissoluteness, until the last of your corpses are in the desert.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your backslidings, until your carcasses be consumed in the wilderness.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And your children will wander in the desert forty years [(so that those who were twenty at the time reach the age of sixty, none to die before that age)], and they shall bear your guilts [plural, that of the golden calf (of their first year in the desert — see Exodus 32:32) and that of the "railing" (these "combining" with the sin of the spies in the second year)], until your carcasses are consumed in the desert.


###### Numbers 14:34
[Numbers 14:34](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Numbers/r/14:34)

בְּמִסְפַּ֨ר הַיָּמִ֜ים אֲשֶׁר־תַּרְתֶּ֣ם אֶת־הָאָ֘רֶץ֮ אַרְבָּעִ֣ים יוֹם֒ י֣וֹם לַשָּׁנָ֞ה י֣וֹם לַשָּׁנָ֗ה תִּשְׂאוּ֙ אֶת־עֲוֺנֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם אַרְבָּעִ֖ים שָׁנָ֑ה וִֽידַעְתֶּ֖ם אֶת־תְּנוּאָתִֽי׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
According to the number of days which you scouted the land; forty days, a day for a year, a day for a year you will bear the burden of your iniquity forty years, and you will know My displeasure.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall you bear your iniquities, namely, forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
According to the number of days that you spied out the land, forty days — a day for a year, a day for a year — shall you bear your sins, forty years, and you shall know (of) your removal [of your hearts] from Me.


###### Numbers 14:35
[Numbers 14:35](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Numbers/r/14:35)

אֲנִ֣י יְהֹוָה֮ דִּבַּ֒רְתִּי֒ אִם־לֹ֣א**׀** זֹ֣את אֶֽעֱשֶׂ֗ה לְכׇל־הָעֵדָ֤ה הָֽרָעָה֙ הַזֹּ֔את הַנּוֹעָדִ֖ים עָלָ֑י בַּמִּדְבָּ֥ר הַזֶּ֛ה יִתַּ֖מּוּ וְשָׁ֥ם יָמֻֽתוּ׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
I am Adonoy; I have spoken——if I do not do this to this entire evil congregation that are gathered against Me; in this desert they shall be finished and there they shall die.”

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
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.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
I, the L-rd, have spoken, if I do not do this (i.e., I shall do this) to all this evil congregation who have assembled against Me. In this desert shall they be consumed, and there shall they die.


###### Numbers 14:36
[Numbers 14:36](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Numbers/r/14:36)

וְהָ֣אֲנָשִׁ֔ים אֲשֶׁר־שָׁלַ֥ח מֹשֶׁ֖ה לָת֣וּר אֶת־הָאָ֑רֶץ וַיָּשֻׁ֗בוּ (וילונו) [וַיַּלִּ֤ינוּ] עָלָיו֙ אֶת־כׇּל־הָ֣עֵדָ֔ה לְהוֹצִ֥יא דִבָּ֖ה עַל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Those men whom Moshe sent to scout the land, who returned and provoked the complaints of the entire congregation against him, by spreading slander about the land;

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
And the men, whom Moshe sent to spy out the land, who returned, and made all the congregation murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land;

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And the men whom Moses had sent to spy out all the land and who, upon their return, stirred up the entire congregation, generating speech against the land —


###### Numbers 14:37
[Numbers 14:37](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Numbers/r/14:37)

וַיָּמֻ֙תוּ֙ הָֽאֲנָשִׁ֔ים מוֹצִאֵ֥י דִבַּת־הָאָ֖רֶץ רָעָ֑ה בַּמַּגֵּפָ֖ה לִפְנֵ֥י יְהֹוָֽה׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Those men died—who spread evil slander against the land—in a plague, before Adonoy.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
now those men that brought up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the Lord,

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Those men died, who had generated evil speech of the land, in the ["apposite"] plague before the L-rd [i.e., within His system of "measure for measure" (Their slanderous tongues uncoiled to their navels, and worms oozed from their tongues into their navels)].


###### Numbers 14:38
[Numbers 14:38](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Numbers/r/14:38)

וִיהוֹשֻׁ֣עַ בִּן־נ֔וּן וְכָלֵ֖ב בֶּן־יְפֻנֶּ֑ה חָיוּ֙ מִן־הָאֲנָשִׁ֣ים הָהֵ֔ם הַהֹלְכִ֖ים לָת֥וּר אֶת־הָאָֽרֶץ׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Yehoshua the son of Nun and Caleiv the son of Yefuneh, lived, from among those men who went to scout the land.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
but Yehoshua the son of Nun, and Kalev the son of Yefunne, of the men who went to spy out the land; they lived.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And Yehoshua bin Nun and Calev ben Yefuneh lived from [the portions of] those men who went to spy out the land.


###### Numbers 14:39
[Numbers 14:39](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Numbers/r/14:39)

וַיְדַבֵּ֤ר מֹשֶׁה֙ אֶת־הַדְּבָרִ֣ים הָאֵ֔לֶּה אֶֽל־כׇּל־בְּנֵ֖י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַיִּֽתְאַבְּל֥וּ הָעָ֖ם מְאֹֽד׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Moshe spoke these words to all of Bnei Yisroel, and the people mourned greatly.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
And Moshe told these sayings to all the children of Yisra᾽el: and the people mourned greatly.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And Moses spoke these words to all the children of Israel, and the people mourned exceedingly.


###### Numbers 14:40
[Numbers 14:40](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Numbers/r/14:40)

וַיַּשְׁכִּ֣מוּ בַבֹּ֔קֶר וַיַּֽעֲל֥וּ אֶל־רֹאשׁ־הָהָ֖ר לֵאמֹ֑ר הִנֶּ֗נּוּ וְעָלִ֛ינוּ אֶל־הַמָּק֛וֹם אֲשֶׁר־אָמַ֥ר יְהֹוָ֖ה כִּ֥י חָטָֽאנוּ׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
They awoke early in the morning and went up to the peak of the mountain, saying: “We are ready to go up to the place of which Adonoy spoke (promised), for we have sinned.”

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
And they rose up early in the morning, and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, We are here, and will go up to the place which the Lord has promised: for we have sinned.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And they arose early in the morning, and they went up to the top of the mountain [leading to Eretz Yisrael], saying: We are ready, and we will go up to the place [Eretz Yisrael] of which the L-rd has spoken [to give it to us], for we have sinned [in saying: "Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt!"]


###### Numbers 14:41
[Numbers 14:41](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Numbers/r/14:41)

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר מֹשֶׁ֔ה לָ֥מָּה זֶּ֛ה אַתֶּ֥ם עֹבְרִ֖ים אֶת־פִּ֣י יְהֹוָ֑ה וְהִ֖וא לֹ֥א תִצְלָֽח׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Moshe said: “Why are you now transgressing the word of Adonoy; it will not succeed.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
And Moshe said, Why now do you transgress the commandment of the Lord? it shall not prosper.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And Moses said: Why do you now transgress the word of the L-rd? It [what you are about to do] will not succeed.


###### Numbers 14:42
[Numbers 14:42](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Numbers/r/14:42)

אַֽל־תַּעֲל֔וּ כִּ֛י אֵ֥ין יְהֹוָ֖ה בְּקִרְבְּכֶ֑ם וְלֹא֙ תִּנָּ֣גְפ֔וּ לִפְנֵ֖י אֹיְבֵיכֶֽם׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Do not go up, for Adonoy is not among you, and do not die before your enemies,

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Go not up, for the Lord is not among you: so that you may not be smitten before your enemies.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Do not go up, for the L-rd is not in your midst, and do not be smitten before your foes.


###### Numbers 14:43
[Numbers 14:43](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Numbers/r/14:43)

כִּי֩ הָעֲמָלֵקִ֨י וְהַכְּנַעֲנִ֥י שָׁם֙ לִפְנֵיכֶ֔ם וּנְפַלְתֶּ֖ם בֶּחָ֑רֶב כִּֽי־עַל־כֵּ֤ן שַׁבְתֶּם֙ מֵאַחֲרֵ֣י יְהֹוָ֔ה וְלֹא־יִהְיֶ֥ה יְהֹוָ֖ה עִמָּכֶֽם׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
For the Amaleki and the Cana’ani are there before you, and you will fall by the sword, for, you turned from following Adonoy, and Adonoy will not be with you.”

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
For the ῾Amaleqi and the Kena῾ani are there before you, and you shall fall by the sword: because you have turned away from the Lord, therefore the Lord will not be with you.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
For the Amaleki and the Canaani are there before you, and you will fall by the sword. For this [will befall you] for having turned back from the L-rd, and the L-rd will not be with you.


###### Numbers 14:44
[Numbers 14:44](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Numbers/r/14:44)

וַיַּעְפִּ֕לוּ לַעֲל֖וֹת אֶל־רֹ֣אשׁ הָהָ֑ר וַאֲר֤וֹן בְּרִית־יְהֹוָה֙ וּמֹשֶׁ֔ה לֹא־מָ֖שׁוּ מִקֶּ֥רֶב הַֽמַּחֲנֶֽה׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
They defiantly went up the mountain peak, but the Ark of the Covenant of Adonoy, and Moshe, did not move from amidst the encampment.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
But they presumed to go up to the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and Moshe, departed not out of the camp.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And they made bold to go up to the top of the mountain, and the ark of the covenant of the L-rd and Moses did not stir from the midst of the camp.


###### Numbers 14:45
[Numbers 14:45](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Numbers/r/14:45)

וַיֵּ֤רֶד הָעֲמָלֵקִי֙ וְהַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֔י הַיֹּשֵׁ֖ב בָּהָ֣ר הַה֑וּא וַיַּכּ֥וּם וַֽיַּכְּת֖וּם עַד־הַֽחׇרְמָֽה׃{פ}

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
The Amaleki and the Cana’ani swooped down, they who were dwelling in that mountain, and they smote and crushed them until Chormah.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Then the ῾Amaleqi came down, and the Kena῾ani who dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, as far as Ḥorma.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And the Amaleki came down and the Canaani, who lived in that mountain, and they smote them and continued smiting them until the Charmah ["Devastation" (so called after the event)].