Numbers 14:26-35

English Standard Version

²⁶ And the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, ²⁷ “How long shall ^(A)this wicked congregation grumble against me? ^(B)I have heard the grumblings of the people of Israel, which they grumble against me. ²⁸ Say to them, ^(C)‘As I live, declares the Lord, ^(D)what you have said in my hearing I will do to you: ^29 (E)your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and ^(F)of all your number, listed in the census ^(G)from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against me, ³⁰ not one shall come into the land where I ^(H)swore that I would make you dwell, ^(I)except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun. ^31 (J)But your little ones, who you said would become a prey, I will bring in, and they shall know the land that ^(K)you have rejected. ³² But as for you, ^(L)your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness. ³³ And your children ^(M)shall be shepherds in the wilderness ^(N)forty years and shall ^(O)suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness. ^34 (P)According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, ^(Q)forty days, a year for each day, you shall bear your iniquity forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.’ ^35 (R)I, the Lord, have spoken. Surely this will I do to all ^(S)this wicked congregation who are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall come to a full end, and there they shall die.”