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and must confess the sin they have committed. They must make full restitution for the wrong they have done, add a fifth of the value to it and give it all to the person they have wronged.
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But Moses said, “Please do not leave us. You know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you can be our eyes.
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But now we have lost our appetite; we never see anything but this manna!”
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We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.”
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Why is the Lord bringing us to this land only to let us fall by the sword? Our wives and children will be taken as plunder. Wouldn’t it be better for us to go back to Egypt?”
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For forty years—one year for each of the forty days you explored the land—you will suffer for your sins and know what it is like to have me against you.’
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Offerings for Unintentional Sins
“‘Now if you as a community unintentionally fail to keep any of these commands the Lord gave Moses—
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“‘But if just one person sins unintentionally, that person must bring a year-old female goat for a sin offering.
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One and the same law applies to everyone who sins unintentionally, whether a native-born Israelite or a foreigner residing among you.
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“‘But anyone who sins defiantly, whether native-born or foreigner, blasphemes the Lord and must be cut off from the people of Israel.
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But Moses and Aaron fell facedown and cried out, “O God, the God who gives breath to all living things, will you be angry with the entire assembly when only one man sins?”
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He warned the assembly, “Move back from the tents of these wicked men! Do not touch anything belonging to them, or you will be swept away because of all their sins.”
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They quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had died when our brothers fell dead before the Lord!
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Why did you bring the Lord’s community into this wilderness, that we and our livestock should die here?
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Our ancestors went down into Egypt, and we lived there many years. The Egyptians mistreated us and our ancestors,
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but when we cried out to the Lord, he heard our cry and sent an angel and brought us out of Egypt. “Now we are here at Kadesh, a town on the edge of your territory.
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The Israelites replied: “We will go along the main road, and if we or our livestock drink any of your water, we will pay for it. We only want to pass through on foot—nothing else.”
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Then Israel made this vow to the Lord: “If you will deliver these people into our hands, we will totally destroy their cities.”
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“Our father died in the wilderness. He was not among Korah’s followers, who banded together against the Lord, but he died for his own sin and left no sons.
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Why should our father’s name disappear from his clan because he had no son? Give us property among our father’s relatives.”
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and said to him, “Your servants have counted the soldiers under our command, and not one is missing.
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So we have brought as an offering to the Lord the gold articles each of us acquired—armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings and necklaces—to make atonement for ourselves before the Lord.”
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If we have found favor in your eyes,” they said, “let this land be given to your servants as our possession. Do not make us cross the Jordan.”
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Then they came up to him and said, “We would like to build pens here for our livestock and cities for our women and children.
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But we will arm ourselves for battle and go ahead of the Israelites until we have brought them to their place. Meanwhile our women and children will live in fortified cities, for protection from the inhabitants of the land.
