them, and anon, Miriam was smitten and made leper and white like snow.  And when Aaron beheld her and saw her smitten with leprosy, he said to Moses:  I beseech the Lord that thou set not the sin on us which we have committed follily, and let not this our sister be as a dead woman, or as born out of time and cast away from her mother, behold and see, half her flesh is devoured of the leprosy.  Then Moses cried unto our Lord, saying:  I beseech thee Lord that thou heal her; to whom our Lord said:  If her father had spit in her face should she not be put to shame and rebuke seven days?  Let her depart out of the castles seven days, and after she shall be called in again.  So Miriam was shut out of the castles seven days, and the people removed not from the place till she was called again.

After this our Lord commanded Moses to send men into the land of Canaan that he should give them charge for to see and consider the goodness thereof, and that of every tribe he should send some.  Moses did as our Lord had commanded, which went in and brought of the fruits with them, and they brought a branch with one cluster of grapes as much as two men might bear between them upon a colestaff.  When they had seen the country and considered by the space of forty days they returned and told the commodities of the land, but some said that the people were strong, and many kings and giants, in such wise that they said it was impregnable and that the people were much stronger than they were.  Wherefore the people anon were afeard, and murmured against Moses and would return again into Egypt.  Then Joshua and Caleb, which were two of them that had considered the land, said to the people:  Why grudge ye and wherefore be ye afraid?  We have well seen the country, and it is good to win.  The country floweth full of milk and honey, be not rebel against God, he shall give it us, be ye not afeard.  Then all the people cried against them, and when they would have taken stones and stoned them, our Lord in his glory appeared in a cloud upon the covering of the tabernacle, and said to Moses:  This people believeth not the signs and wonders that I have showed and done to them.  I shall destroy them all by pestilence, and I shall make thee a prince upon people greater and stronger than this is.  Then prayed Moses to our Lord for the people, that he would have pity on them and not destroy them, but to have mercy on them after the magnitude of his mercy.  And our Lord at his request forgave them.  Nevertheless our Lord said that all the men that had seen his majesty, and the signs and marvels that he did in Egypt, and in desert, and have tempted him ten times, and not obeyed unto his voice, shall not see ne come into the country and land that I have promised to their fathers, but Joshua and Caleb, my servants, shall enter into the land, and their seed shall possess it.  Moses told all this unto the children and they wailed and sorrowed greatly therefore.