³ Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said,

And yet his works have been finished since the creation of the world.

³⁴ When the Lord heard^(A) what you said, he was angry^(B) and solemnly swore:^{(C) 35} “No one from this evil generation shall see the good land^(D) I swore to give your ancestors,

¹⁴ Thirty-eight years^(A) passed from the time we left Kadesh Barnea^(B) until we crossed the Zered Valley. By then, that entire generation^(C) of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the Lord had sworn to them.^(D)

⁹ There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God;

⁵ And again in the passage above he says, “They shall never enter my rest.”^(A)

¹⁰ The Lord’s anger was aroused^(A) that day and he swore this oath:^{(B) 11} ‘Because they have not followed me wholeheartedly, not one of those who were twenty years old or more^(C) when they came up out of Egypt^(D) will see the land I promised on oath^(E) to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob^(F)— ¹² not one except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun, for they followed the Lord wholeheartedly.’^{(G) 13} The Lord’s anger burned against Israel^(H) and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the whole generation of those who had done evil in his sight was gone.^(I)

³⁵ I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will surely do these things^(A) to this whole wicked community, which has banded together against me. They will meet their end in this wilderness; here they will die.^(B)”