⁵ Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, and they were struck down in the wilderness.^(A)

¹⁷ And with whom was he angry forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?^(A)

Judgment on False Teachers

⁵ Now I desire to remind you, though you are fully informed, once and for all, that Jesus, who saved^[a] a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.^(A)

⁶⁴ Among these there was not one of those enrolled by Moses and Aaron the priest, who had enrolled the Israelites in the wilderness of Sinai.^{(A) 65} For the Lord had said of them, “They shall die in the wilderness.” Not one of them was left, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.^(B)

³⁷ the men who brought an unfavorable report about the land died by a plague before the Lord.

²⁸ Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘I will do to you the very things I heard you say:^{(A) 29} your dead bodies shall fall in this very wilderness, and of all your number included in the census from twenty years old and up who have complained against me,^{(B) 30} not one of you shall come into the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.^{(C) 31} But your little ones, who you said would become plunder, I will bring in, and they shall know the land that you have despised.^{(D) 32} But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.^{(E) 33} And your children shall be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years and shall suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness.^{(F) 34} According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, for every day a year, you shall bear your iniquity, forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.’^{(G) 35} I the Lord have spoken; surely I will do thus to all this wicked congregation gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall come to a full end, and there they shall die.”^(H)

¹¹ And the Lord said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? And how long will they refuse to believe in me, in spite of all the signs that I have done among them?^{(A) 12} I will strike them with pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”^(B)