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Bible Reading for February 20

Numbers 11
[1] And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD
heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among
them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp. [2]
And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the LORD, the
fire was quenched.
[3] And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the
LORD burnt among them.
[4] And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the
children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to
eat?
[5] We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers,
and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: [6] But our
soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our
eyes.
[7] And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the
colour of bdellium.
[8] And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or
beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the
taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil. [9] And when the dew fell upon
the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.
[10] Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their families, every man
in the door of his tent: and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly;
Moses also was displeased.
[11] And Moses said unto the LORD, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy
servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou
layest the burden of all this people upon me? [12] Have I conceived all
this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry
them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the
land which thou swarest unto their fathers? [13] Whence should I have flesh
to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh,
that we may eat. [14] I am not able to bear all this people alone, because
it is too heavy for me.
[15] And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I
have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness. [16]
And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of
Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over
them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may
stand there with thee.
[17] And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the
spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear
the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.
[18] And say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow,
and ye shall eat flesh: for ye have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying,
Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore
the LORD will give you flesh, and ye shall eat. [19] Ye shall not eat one
day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days;
[20] But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be
loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the LORD which is among
you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt? [21]
And Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand
footmen; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a
whole month.
[22] Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or
shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice
them?
[23] And the LORD said unto Moses, Is the LORD's hand waxed short? thou
shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not. [24] And
Moses went out, and told the people the words of the LORD, and gathered the
seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the
tabernacle.
[25] And the LORD came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the
spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders: and it came
to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did
not cease.
[26] But there remained two of the men in the camp, the name of the one was
Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the spirit rested upon them;
and they were of them that were written, but went not out unto the
tabernacle: and they prophesied in the camp.
[27] And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad
do prophesy in the camp.
[28] And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his young men,
answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them. [29] And Moses said unto
him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the LORD's people were
prophets, and that the LORD would put his spirit upon them!
[30] And Moses gat him into the camp, he and the elders of Israel. [31] And
there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and
let them fall by the camp, as it were a day's journey on this side, and as
it were a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it
were two cubits high upon the face of the earth. [32] And the people stood
up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they
gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they
spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp. [33] And while
the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the
LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a
very great plague.
[34] And he called the name of that place Kibroth-hattaavah: because there
they buried the people that lusted. [35] And the people journeyed from
Kibroth-hattaavah unto Hazeroth; and abode at Hazeroth.

Numbers 12
[1] And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman
whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman. [2] And they
said, Hath the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by
us? And the LORD heard it. [3] (Now the man Moses was very meek, above all
the men which were upon the face of the earth.)
[4] And the LORD spake suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto
Miriam, Come out ye three unto the tabernacle of the congregation. And they
three came out.
[5] And the LORD came down in the pillar of the cloud, and stood in the
door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam: and they both came
forth. [6] And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you,
I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto
him in a dream.
[7] My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house. [8] With
him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches;
and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not
afraid to speak against my servant Moses? [9] And the anger of the LORD was
kindled against them; and he departed. [10] And the cloud departed from off
the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and
Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.
[11] And Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, my lord, I beseech thee, lay not the
sin upon us, wherein we have done foolishly, and wherein we have sinned.
[12] Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he
cometh out of his mother's womb.
[13] And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee.
[14] And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face,
should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from the camp
seven days, and after that let her be received in again. [15] And Miriam
was shut out from the camp seven days: and the people journeyed not till
Miriam was brought in again. [16] And afterward the people removed from
Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.

Numbers 13
[1] And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, [2] Send thou men, that they may
search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of
every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among
them.
[3] And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the wilderness
of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel. [4] And these
were their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.
[5] Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori. [6] Of the tribe of
Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh. [7] Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the
son of Joseph. [8] Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun. [9] Of
the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu. [10] Of the tribe of
Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi. [11] Of the tribe of Joseph, namely, of
the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.
[12] Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli. [13] Of the tribe of
Asher, Sethur the son of Michael. [14] Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the
son of Vophsi. [15] Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi. [16] These
are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses
called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua. [17] And Moses sent them to spy out
the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and
go up into the mountain: [18] And see the land, what it is; and the people
that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many; [19]
And what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad; and
what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strong
holds;
[20] And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood
therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the
land. Now the time was the time of the firstripe grapes. [21] So they went
up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men
come to Hamath.
[22] And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman,
Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built
seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
[23] And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a
branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a
staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs. [24] The
place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which
the children of Israel cut down from thence. [25] And they returned from
searching of the land after forty days. [26] And they went and came to
Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel,
unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them,
and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.
[27] And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou
sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the
fruit of it. [28] Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land,
and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children
of Anak there.
[29] The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and
the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites
dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan. [30] And Caleb stilled the
people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we
are well able to overcome it. [31] But the men that went up with him said,
We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.
[32] And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched
unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone
to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the
people that we saw in it are men of a great stature. [33] And there we saw
the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our
own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

Numbers 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.

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