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Chapter 14 is a chapter of wild unraveling. It begins with the people\u2019s heavy weeping through the night and in the morning, their angry proclamations against Moses and Aaron:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf only we had died in the land of Egypt.. It would be better for us to go back to Egypt!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

And then their call to action: \u201cLet us head back for Egypt\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Overwhelmed by the spies\u2019 report, the people fall into a manic, fearful state. They trust no one at all. Not God, not Caleb or Joshua, and certainly not Moses or Aaron. They are prepared to disassociate from their leaders and take matters into their own hands, throwing it all away– and return to Egypt. \u00a0When Joshua and Caleb make a desperate effort to reorient them to the \u201cgoodness\u201d of the land and to move them from their narrative of fear, the people respond by threatening to stone them. They can no longer take in guidance; they are closed off to the possibility of seeing the arc of promise or goodness in their identity as a people.<\/span><\/p>\n

As singular as this moment seems, it bears echoes of earlier moments in their trajectory as a people. Surely, their urgent sense of fear has surfaced before, and their distrust of their leaders- and of God- has reverberated throughout many prior narratives. But at this moment, their inability to hear– to take it in– has a striking parallel to one of their earliest encounters with Moses. Shortly after Moses demanded Israelite freedom from Pharaoh, Moses reveals to the Israelites the full arc of their story: from the <\/span>brit avot<\/span><\/em>, <\/span><\/i>covenant with the ancestors. to the promise of settling them in that covenantal land.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moses lays it out clearly for them, but they \u201cwould not listen to Moses, on account of shortness of breath and cruel bondage\u201d (Exodus 6:9).<\/span><\/p>\n

Here, too, they cannot hear about the promised land. Their leaders tell them that the redemptive story is theirs, but the people have lost themselves along that story; in the dark moments of Numbers 14, they have fallen off the map of covenantal redemption.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the episode\u2019s end, God\u2019s punishment swiftly brings them back into awareness of how real it all is: the relationship, the promise, the covenantal arc. In a desperate attempt to realign themselves with the story, they rush up toward the hill country. But it is too late. And they are still trying to do it on their own; \u201cneither the Lord\u2019s Ark of the Covenant nor Moses stirred from the camp\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n

A people without leaders, without God, is not how the story was meant to unfold.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":101938,"id":101938,"title":"-6208dac861557--6208dac861558gen6-revolution protest rebellion.png","filename":"6208dac861557-6208dac861558gen6-revolution-protest-rebellion.png.png","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/07\/6208dac861557-6208dac861558gen6-revolution-protest-rebellion.png.png","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/dont-destroy-educate\/6208dac861557-6208dac861558gen6-revolution-protest-rebellion-png\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"6208dac861557-6208dac861558gen6-revolution-protest-rebellion-png","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":34809,"date":"2022-02-13 10:17:44","modified":"2023-09-23 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