The Penalty for Israel's Rebellion

³⁴ “And the Lord heard your words and was angered, and he swore,

^22 (A)none of the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have put me to the test these ^(B)ten times and have not obeyed my voice, ^23 (C)shall see the land that I swore to give to their fathers. And none of those who despised me shall see it. ²⁴ But my servant ^(D)Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has ^(E)followed me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it. ^25 (F)Now, since the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valleys, ^(G)turn tomorrow and set out for the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.”

²⁶ And the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, ²⁷ “How long shall ^(H)this wicked congregation grumble against me? ^(I)I have heard the grumblings of the people of Israel, which they grumble against me. ²⁸ Say to them, ^(J)‘As I live, declares the Lord, ^(K)what you have said in my hearing I will do to you: ^29 (L)your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and ^(M)of all your number, listed in the census ^(N)from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against me, ³⁰ not one shall come into the land where I ^(O)swore that I would make you dwell, ^(P)except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.

¹⁵ Moreover, ^(A)I swore to them in the wilderness ^(B)that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them, a land ^(C)flowing with milk and honey, ^(D)the most glorious of all lands,

¹⁴ And the time from our leaving ^(A)Kadesh-barnea until we crossed ^(B)the brook Zered was thirty-eight years, ^(C)until the entire generation, that is, the men of war, had perished from the camp, as the Lord had sworn to them. ¹⁵ For indeed the hand of the Lord was against them, to destroy them from the camp, until they had perished.

⁸ Your fathers did this, ^(A)when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land. ⁹ For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the people of Israel from going into the land that the Lord had given them. ^10 (B)And the Lord's anger was kindled on that day, and he swore, saying, ¹¹ ‘Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, ^(C)from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land that I swore to give ^(D)to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, because they have not wholly followed me, ¹² none except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the ^(E)Kenizzite and Joshua the son of Nun, for ^(F)they have wholly followed the Lord.’ ¹³ And the Lord's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them ^(G)wander in the wilderness forty years, until ^(H)all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the Lord was gone.