^23 (A)shall see the land that I swore to give to their fathers. And none of those who despised me shall see it.

¹¹ ‘Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, ^(A)from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land that I swore to give ^(B)to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, because they have not wholly followed me,

^64 (A)But among these there was not one of those listed by Moses and Aaron the priest, who had listed the people of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.

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,

¹⁷ And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, ^(A)whose bodies fell in the wilderness? ¹⁸ And to whom did he swear that ^(B)they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient?

^35 (A)‘Not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land that I swore to give to your fathers, ^36 (B)except Caleb the son of Jephunneh. He shall see it, and to him and to his children I will give the land on which he has trodden, because he has wholly followed the Lord!’ ³⁷ Even with me ^(C)the Lord was angry on your account and said, ‘You also shall not go in there. ^38 (D)Joshua the son of Nun, ^(E)who stands before you, he shall enter. ^(F)Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it. ³⁹ And as for ^(G)your little ones, who you said would become a prey, and your children, who today ^(H)have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there. And to them I will give it, and they shall possess it. ⁴⁰ But as for you, ^(I)turn, and journey into the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea.’

⁴¹ “Then you answered me, ^(J)‘We have sinned against the Lord. We ourselves will go up and fight, just as the Lord our God commanded us.’ And every one of you fastened on his weapons of war and thought it easy to go up into the hill country. ⁴² And the Lord said to me, ^(K)‘Say to them, Do not go up or fight, ^(L)for I am not in your midst, lest you be defeated before your enemies.’ ⁴³ So I spoke to you, and you would not listen; but you rebelled against the command of the Lord and ^(M)presumptuously went up into the hill country. ^44 (N)Then the Amorites who lived in that hill country came out against you and chased you ^(O)as bees do and beat you down in Seir as far as ^(P)Hormah. ⁴⁵ And you returned and wept before the Lord, but the Lord did not listen to your voice or give ear to you.

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

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