³ For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said,

although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.

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.

The Penalty for Israel's Rebellion

³⁴ “And the Lord heard your words and was angered, and he swore, ^35 (A)‘Not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land that I swore to give to your fathers,

⁹ So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God,

⁵ And again in this passage he said,

^10 (A)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, ^(B)from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land that I swore to give ^(C)to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, because they have not wholly followed me, ¹² none except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the ^(D)Kenizzite and Joshua the son of Nun, for ^(E)they have wholly followed the Lord.’ ¹³ And the Lord's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them ^(F)wander in the wilderness forty years, until ^(G)all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the Lord was gone.

^35 (A)I, the Lord, have spoken. Surely this will I do to all ^(B)this wicked congregation who are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall come to a full end, and there they shall die.”

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.