¶The .xiiij. Chapter.
2 The people murmure agaynst God. 10 And woulde haue stoned Caleb and Iosuah. 37 The searchers of the lande dye. 45 Amalech kylleth the Israelites.
[unspec A] 1 AND all the multitude of the people cried out, and wept throughout that nyght.
2 And all the chyldren of Israel murmured agaynst Moyses and Aaron, and the whole congregation sayde vnto them: Woulde God that we had dyed in the lande of Egypt, either that we had dyed in this wyldernesse.
3 Wherfore hath the Lorde brought vs vnto this lande to fall vpon the sworde, and that our wyues and our chyldren should be a pray? Were it not better that we returne vnto Egypt agayne?
4 And they sayd one to another: Let vs make a captayne, and returne vnto E∣gypt agayne.
5 Then Moyses & Aaron fell (a) 1.1 on their faces before all the assemblie of the con∣gregation of the chyldren of Israel.
6 And Iosuah the sonne of Nun, and Caleb the sonne of Iephune [whiche were] of them that searched the lande, [unspec B] rent their clothes:
7 And spake vnto al the companie of the chyldren of Israel, saying: The lande whiche we walked through to searche it, is a very good lande.
8 If the Lord haue a loue to vs, he will bryng vs into this lande and geue it vs, whiche is such a lande as floweth with mylke and hony.
9 But in any wyse rebell not ye agaynst the Lorde,* 1.2 neither feare the people of the lande, for they are but (b) 1.3 bread for vs: Their shielde is departed from them, and the Lorde is with vs, feare them not therfore.
10 But all the congregation bade stone them with stones: And the glory of the Lorde appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the chyldren of Israel.
11 And the Lorde sayde vnto Moyses: Howe long do this people prouoke me, and how long wyll it be yer they beleue me, for all the signes which I haue she∣wed among them?
12 I will smyte them with the pestilence and destroy them, and wyll make of thee a greater nation and mightier then they.
13 And Moyses sayde vnto the Lorde: Then the Egyptians shall heare it, (for thou broughtest this people in thy might from among them.)
14 And it wylbe tolde to the inhabiters [unspec C] of this lande also: for they haue hearde lykewyse, that thou Lorde art among this people, and that thou Lorde art