Numbers 32:6-15

New Catholic Bible

Moses’ Response. ⁶ Moses said to the Gadites and the Reubenites, “Shall your brothers go to war while you rest here? ⁷ Why are you discouraging the people of Israel from going over into the land that the Lord has given them? ⁸ This is what your fathers did when I sent them out from Kadesh-barnea to see the land. ⁹ When they went up into the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the people of Israel so that they did not enter into the land that the Lord had given them. ¹⁰ The Lord’s anger blazed on that day and he swore, ¹¹ ‘None of those who are twenty years and older and who came out of Egypt will see the land that I promised to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, for they have not followed me wholeheartedly. ¹² Only Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, the Kenizzite, and Joshua, the son of Nun, will see it for they followed the Lord wholeheartedly.’ ¹³ The Lord’s anger blazed against Israel and he made them wander in the desert for forty years until the entire generation that had done evil in the sight of the Lord was consumed. ¹⁴ Now, you brood of sinful men have risen up to take your fathers’ place, adding to the Lord’s blazing anger against Israel. ¹⁵ If you turn away from him again, he will leave you in the desert and you will have destroyed this entire people.”