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

¹Zvino ungano yose yakachema zvikuru; vanhu vakachema usiku ihwohwo.

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!

²Vana vaIsiraeri vose vakapo potera Mozisi naAroni, ungano yose ikati kwavari, Haiwa, dai takafira hedu munyika yeEgipita! Dai takafira hedu murenje rino!

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?”

³Jehovha akauyireiko nesu munyika ino, tiurawe nomunondo? Vakadzi vedu navana vedu vachatapwa. Hakuzaiva nani kuti tidzokere Egipita here?

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

⁴Vakataurirana, vakati, Ngatizvitsvakire mukuru, tidzokere Egipita.

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

⁵Ipapo Mozisi naAroni vakawira pasi nezviso zvavo pamberi peungano yose yavana vaIsiraeri.

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

⁶NaJoshua, mwanakomana waNuni, naKarebhu, mwanakomana waJefune, vakanga vandoshora nyika pamwechete navamwe, vakabvarura nguvo dzavo,

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.

⁷vakataura neungano yose yavana vaIsiraeri vakati, Nyika yatakapfuura napakati payo kuishora, inyika yakanaka kwazvo-kwazvo.

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.

⁸Kana Jehovha achifara nesu, achatiisa kunyika iyo, nokutipa iyo; inyika inoyerera mukaka nouchi.

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.”

⁹Asi regai kumukira Jehovha, uye musatya vanhu venyika iyo, nekuti ivo zvokudya zvedu; mumvuri wavo wabviswa pamusoro pavo, Jehovha anesu, regai kutya.

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.

¹⁰Asi ungano yose yakati vatakwe namabwe. Ipapo kubwinya kwaJehovha kwakaonekwa mutende rokusangana navana vaIsiraeri vose.

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?

¹¹Zvino Jehovha akati kuna Mozisi, Vanhu ava vachandizvidza kusvikira rinhiko? Vacharamba kunditenda ini kusvikira rinhiko, nezvishamiso zvose zvandakaita pakati pavo?

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

¹²Ndichavarova nedenda, nokuvatorera nhaka yavo, ndikuite iwe rudzi runovakunda ivo noukuru nesimba.

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

¹³Mozisi akati kuna Jehovha, VaEgipita vachazvinzwa, nekuti makabudisa vanhu ava pakati pavo nesimba renyu;

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.

¹⁴vachaudza vanhu vagere munyika ino izvozvo; ivo vakanzwa kuti imwi Jehovha muri pakati pavanhu ava, nekuti imwi Jehovha munoonekwa navo pachena, gore renyu rinomira pamusoro pavo, nemwi munovatungamirira masikati neshongwe yegore, nousiku neshongwe yomoto.

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

¹⁵Zvino kana mukauraya vanhu ava vose-vose, ndudzi dzavanhu, dzakanzwa mukurumbira wenyu, dzichataura, dzichiti,

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.’

¹⁶Jehovha akanga asingagoni kuisa vanhu ava kunyika yaakanga avapikira, saka akavauraya murenje.

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

¹⁷Zvino ndinokumbira kuti simba raShe wangu rive guru, sezvamakataura, muchiti,

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.’

¹⁸Jehovha anononoka kutsamwa, ane nyasha huru, anokangamwira zvakaipa nokudarika; haangatongopembedzi munhu ane mhosva; anorova vana nokuda kwezvakaipa zvamadzibaba avo, kusvikira kurudzi rwechitatu norwechina.

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.”

¹⁹Ndinokumbira kuti mukangamwire henyu zvakaipa zvavanhu ava noukuru bwenyasha dzenyu, uye sezvamakakangamwira vanhu ava kubva Egipita kusvikira zvino.

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

²⁰Ipapo Jehovha akati, Ndakangamwira sezvawakumbira.

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

²¹Asi zvirokwazvo, noupenyu hwangu, uye nyika yose zvaichazara nokubwinya kwaJehovha,

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;

²²varume ava vose vakaona kubwinya kwangu nezviratidzo zvangu, zvandakaita muEgipita nomurenje, vakandiidza zvino rune gumi, vasingateereri inzwi rangu,

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

²³zvirokwazvo, havangaoni nyika yandakapikira madzibaba avo; hakuna mumwe wavakandizvidza achaiona,

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.

²⁴asi muranda wangu Karebhu, nekuti akanga ano mumwe mweya mukati make, akanditevera nomoyo wose, ndiye andichapinza munyika maakambopinda; ichava yavana vake.

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 .”

²⁵Zvino vaAmareki navaKanani vaigara mumupata uyo; mangwana dzokai, muende kurenje nenzira inoenda kuGungwa Dzvuku.

²⁶Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

²⁶Zvino Jehovha wakataura naMozisi naAroni, akati,

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.

²⁷Ungano iyi yakaipa icharamba ichindinyunyutira kusvikira rinhiko? Ndakanzwa kunyunyuta kwavana vaIsiraeri, kwavanondinyunyutira nako.

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

²⁸Uti kwavari, zvanzi naJehovha, Zvirokwazvo, noupenyu hwangu, sezvamakataura munzeve dzangu, ndizvo zvandichakuitirai.

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,

²⁹Zvitunha zvenyu zvichawira murenje rino; imwi mose makaverengwa, nokuwanda kwenyu kose, vose vana makore makumi maviri navanopfuura, vakandinyunyutira,

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.

³⁰zvirokwazvo, imwi hamungapindi munyika yandakupikirai, ndichiti, ndichakugarisaimo, asi Karebhu, mwanakomana waJefune, naJoshua, mwanakomana waNuni.

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.

³¹Asi vana venyu vamakati vachatapwa, ndivo vandichapinza; ivo vachaziva nyika yamakaramba imwi.

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

³²Asi kana murimwi, zvitunha zvenyu zvichawira murenje, rino.

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

³³Vana venyu vachadzungaira savafudzi murenje makore ana makumi mana, vachirohwa nokuda kokupata kwenyu, kusvikira zvitunha zvenyu zvaparadzwa murenje.

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.’

³⁴Samazuva amakanga muchishora nyika nawo, iwo mazuva ana makumi mana, saizvozvo muchava nemhosva yokutadza kwenyu, zuva rimwe nerimwe richaita gore rimwe, ndiwo makore ana makumi mana, mugoziva kuti ndakakufuratirai.

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.”

³⁵Ini Jehovha, ndakataura izvozvo, ndichaitira saizvozvo ungano iyi yose yakaipa, yakaungana kuzorwa neni; vachaparadzwa murenje rino, vachafirapo.

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,

³⁶Zvino varume vakanga vatumwa naMozisi vaya kundoshora nyika, vaya vakadzoka vonyunyutisa ungano yose pamusoro pake, zvavakauya namashoko akaipa pamusoro penyika iyo,

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

³⁷varume avo vakanga vauya neshoko rakaipa pamusoro penyika iyo, vakafa nedenda pamberi paJehovha.

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

³⁸Asi Joshua, mwanakomana waNuni, naKarebhu, mwanakomana waJefune, vakasara vari vapenyu pavarume vaya vakandoshora nyika.

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

³⁹Zvino Mozisi wakaudza vana vaIsiraeri mashoko iwaya ose; vanhu vakachema kwazvo;

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.”

⁴⁰vakafumira mangwanani, vakakwira kumusoro wegomo, vakati, Tarirai, tiri pano hedu, tichandokwira kwatakavimbiswa naJehovha, nekuti tatadza.

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

⁴¹Mozisi akati, Munodarikireiko murayiro waJehovha, nekuti muchaona nhamo.

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

⁴²Musakwira, nekuti Jehovha haazi pakati penyu; kuti murege kuparadzwa navavengi venyu.

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.”

⁴³Nekuti vaAmareki navaKanani vari mberi kwenyu ipapo; muchaurawa nomunondo, nekuti makadzoka pakutevera Jehovha, naizvozvo Jehovha haangavi nemi.

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.

⁴⁴Kunyange zvakadaro vakaidza havo kukwira kumusoro wegomo nokuzvikudza kwavo; asi areka yesungano yaJehovha haina kubva pamisasa, naiye Mozisiwo.

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

⁴⁵Ipapo vaAmareki navaKanani vakanga vagere mugomo iro vakaburuka, vakavaparadza nokuvadzingirira kusvikira paHoma.