¹All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.

¹HUCHIIN omkhawmte tengteng aw suak hialin a kap ua; huai janin mite a kapkap uhi.

²All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said to them, “Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this wilderness!

²Israel suante tengteng Mosi tung leh Aron tungah a phun ua: omkhawmte tengtengin a kiang uah, Aigupta gamah pathianin honhihlum geih hileh aw! Ahihkeileh gamdai ah honna hihlum geih hileh aw!

³Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: wouldn’t it be better for us to return into Egypt?”

³Bangachia namsaua si maimah dinga Pathianin hiai gama honpi ahi de aw? I ji I tate lah mat maimah ding ahi ngal ua: Aigupta gama kik nawn eia dia hoihzo lou ding hia? a chi ua.

⁴They said one to another, “Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.”

⁴Huchiin a kihou khawm ua, Heutu bawl ni e, Aigupta gamah kik nawn ni, a chi ua.

⁵Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.

⁵Huchiin Mosi leh Aron Israel suante mipi omkhawm tengteng maah a khupboh uh.

⁶Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes:

⁶Huan, Nun tapa Josua leh Jephune tapa Kaleb, gam vaenkhete laka telten a puan uh a botkek ua:

⁷and they spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, “The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceeding good land.

⁷Israel suante omkhawm tengteng kiangah, Enkhe dinga ka vavakna gam uh gam hoihtak ahi.

⁸If Yahweh delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey.

⁸I tung ua TOUPA a kipah leh huai gamah a honpi ding, honpe ding: huai nawitui leh khuaiju luanna gam.

⁹Only don’t rebel against Yahweh, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defense is removed from over them, and Yahweh is with us. Don’t fear them.”

⁹TOUPA tungah hel kei phot leu chin, huai gama mite leng lau samkei un, I an ding uh ahi mai ua, a kihumbitna uh bangmah ahi kei; TOUPA I kiang uah a om hi, amau kihta kei un, chiin a gen uh.

¹⁰But all the congregation threatened to stone them with stones. The glory of Yahweh appeared in the Tent of Meeting to all the children of Israel.

¹⁰Himahleh omkhawmte tengtengin suanga den a sawm uh. Huchiin TOUPA thupina kihoupihna puanin Israel suante tengteng maah a honglangta hi.

¹¹Yahweh said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?

¹¹Huchiin TOUPAN Mosi kiangah, Hiai mipiten bangtan ahia honthuseh louh dina ua, a lak ua chiamtehna ka hih sek nangawna leng bangtan ahia hontaksan sin louh uh?

¹²I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”

¹²Hiin ka gawt dinga, ka in-gam sak dinga, nangmah ah a sang ua thupi leh thilhihthei jaw nam ka bawlkhe zo mai ding, a chi a.

¹³Moses said to Yahweh, “Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them;

¹³Huan, Mosiin TOUPA kiangah, Aigupta miten a za kha ding uh; hiai mite lah a lak ua kipana na thilhihtheihnaa na pikhiak ahi ngal ua;

¹⁴and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you Yahweh are in the midst of this people; for you Yahweh are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them, and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.

¹⁴Hiai gama mite a hilh ding ua: hiai mipite lakah na om chih a zata uh; kimaituah hialin lah a honmuta ngal ua, na meipi a tunguah a om sek a; huan, sunin meipi ding, janin meiin a ma uh lah na pi jel ngala.

¹⁵Now if you killed this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,

¹⁵Hiai mipite na thahgam leh na minthangna ja namten.

¹⁶‘Because Yahweh was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.’

¹⁶TOUPAN hiai mite kichiama achiam gama a pi theihlouh jiakin gamdai ah a hihlum ahi, chiin a hon genkhe ding uh.

¹⁷Now please let the power of the Lord The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.” be great, according as you have spoken, saying,

¹⁷Tuin ka honngen ahi, ka TOUPA thilhihtheihna hihthupiin om hen, thu a na gentak dungjuiin,

¹⁸‘Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’

¹⁸TOUPA jaw lungnel tak, migitna hau, thulimlouhna te, tatlekna te ngaidam sek; moha sehte khah ngeiloupa, pate thulimlouhna jiaka tate, tate ta nawnte, suan thumna leh suan lina tana leng gawt sek ahi na na chih.

¹⁹Please pardon the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your loving kindness, and according as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.”

¹⁹Na migitna a thupi bang ngei leh Aigupta gam akipana tutana na ngaihdam bangin mipite thulimlouhna ngaidam dih ve, a chi a.

²⁰Yahweh said, “I have pardoned according to your word:

²⁰Huan, TOUPAN, Na thu bangin ka ngaidam hi:

²¹but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of Yahweh;

²¹Himahleh ka hinna leh TOUPA thupinain a hondimsak ding lei tengteng louin ka gen hi;

²²because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;

²²Aigupta gam leh gamdaia ka thupina leh ka thillamdang hihte mu a, huchi pipia leng sawm vei tak honzeet lailaia, ka thu jui lou lai mi tengtengin;

²³surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who despised me see it:

²³A pipute uh kianga kichiama ka chiam huai gam a mu kei hial ding uh; a lak ua kei honngaineute mawngmawngin leng a mu sam kei ding uh:

²⁴but my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him will I bring into the land into which he went; and his seed shall possess it.

²⁴Ka sikha Kalebin bel lungsim dang a puta, a honzuih taktak jiakin, amah jaw a vahohna gamah ka pi ding, a suanten a luah ding uh.

²⁵Now the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley: tomorrow turn, and go into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea or, Sea of Reeds .”

²⁵Khaile, Amelekte leh Kanante huai gamah a om ua: jingchiangin kihei unla, Tuipi san lampi lam gamdai ah lut un, a chi hi.

²⁶Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

²⁶Huan, TOUPAN Mosi leh Aron a houpiha,

²⁷“How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, that murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.

²⁷Hiai mi thulimlou omkhawmte, ka tunga phunphunte bangtan ahia ka dohtheih ding? Israel suante phunna, ka tunga a phunnate uh ka ja hi.

²⁸Tell them, ‘As I live, says Yahweh, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you:

²⁸A kiang uah, Ka hinna louin ka gen hi, ka bilbuk ngeia na gen bang un na tunguah ka hih ding:

²⁹your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me,

²⁹Na luang uh gamdai ah a om dinga; na lak ua simsa mi tengteng, kum sawmnih akipan tunglam ka tunga phunphun teng,

³⁰surely you shall not come into the land, concerning which I swore that I would make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

³⁰Banjak hiala, Ka honomsak ding, ka chih gamah Jephune tapa Kaleb leh Nun tapa Josua kia loungal na lut kei ding uh.

³¹But your little ones, that you said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.

³¹Ahihhangin, Mat ding lel ahi ding uh, na chih uh na tate uh ka pi lut dinga, na dihlouh gam uh a thei ding uh.

³²But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.

³²Noubel na luang uh hiai gamdai ah a om ding.

³³Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.

³³Na tate uh gamdai ah kum sawmli a tamvak ding uh, gamdaia na luangte uh a mawk man masiah na kijuakna uh amau a thuak loh ding uh.

³⁴After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, you will bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you will know my alienation.’

³⁴Gam na vaetkhiak ni zah uh, ni sawmli, ni khat tangin kumkhat jel, kum sawmli sung tak na tatlekna uh na thuak loh ding ua, huchiin ka tupdan ka hihlamdan na thei ding uh.

³⁵I, Yahweh, have spoken, surely this will I do to all this evil congregation, who are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.”

³⁵Kei TOUPAN mi ginalou omkhawm honnanga omkhawmte tungah hia ka hih ngei ding ka nachita a: hiai gamdai ah a mangthang ding ua. Huailaiah a si ding uh, TOUPAN a chi, chi un, chiin.

³⁶The men, whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report against the land,

³⁶Huan, gam enkhe dinga Mosi mi sawl hongkik nawnten, gam omdan a hoihlou lama genin amah tungah omkhawmte a phunsak hi,

³⁷even those men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Yahweh.

³⁷Huai gam omdan a hoihlou lama gente ngei TOUPA maah hiin a sita uh.

³⁸But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, remained alive of those men who went to spy out the land.

³⁸Gam enkhe dinga hohte laka Nun tapa Josua leh Jephune tapa Kaleb bel a si tei kei uhi.

³⁹Moses told these words to all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.

³⁹Huan, Mosiin huai thute Israel suante tengteng a hilha: huchiin mipite a lungkhamta mahmah uhi.

⁴⁰They rose up early in the morning, and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, “Behold, we are here, and will go up to the place which Yahweh has promised: for we have sinned.”

⁴⁰Huchiin jingpiinn a thou ua, mual vum ah a hohtou ua, Ngaiin, ka hongpai uhi. TOUPAN a honchiamna mun ah ka hoh ding uhi, ka na khialta uhi, achi ua.

⁴¹Moses said, “Why now do you disobey the commandment of Yahweh, since it shall not prosper?

⁴¹Huan, Mosiin, Lamzanna ahi kei ding chih thei napia bangdinga TOUPA thupiak bohse himhim na hi ua?

⁴²Don’t go up, for Yahweh isn’t among you; that you not be struck down before your enemies.

⁴²Na lak uah TOUPA a om ngal keia, melmate hihlup lel dingin hohtou kei un.

⁴³For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and you shall fall by the sword: because you are turned back from following Yahweh, therefore Yahweh will not be with you.”

⁴³Na ma uah Amalekte leh Kanante a om uhi, namsaua hihlup na hi phet ding uh: TOUPA na lehngatsantak jiak un na kiang uah TOUPA a om kei ding, a chi a.

⁴⁴But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and Moses, didn’t depart out of the camp.

⁴⁴Himahleh mualvuma hoh a tum teitei ua: ahihhangin TOUPA thukhunnabawm leh Mosi jaw buk akipan a pawt kei uhi.Huchiin huai muala om Amalekte leh Kanante a hongkuan suk ua, a sual ua, Horma tanphain amau a sat puk phengphung maimah uhi.

⁴⁵Then the Amalekite came down, and the Canaanite who lived in that mountain, and struck them and beat them down, even to Hormah.

⁴⁵Huchiin huai muala om Amalekte leh Kanante a hongkuan suk ua, a sual ua, Horma tanphain amau a sat puk phengphung maimah uhi.