²⁹ The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness, ^(A)all of you who were numbered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above.

⁴⁵ So all who were numbered of the children of Israel, by their fathers’ houses, from twenty years old and above, all who were able to go to war in Israel—

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

^64 (A)But among these there was not a man of those who were numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they numbered the children of Israel in the ^(B)Wilderness of Sinai.

⁵ But with most of them God was not well pleased, for their bodies ^(A)were scattered in the wilderness.

Old and New Apostates

⁵ But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that ^(A)the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.

³² But as for you, ^(A)your^[a] carcasses shall fall in this wilderness. ³³ And your sons shall ^(B)be ^[b]shepherds in the wilderness ^(C)forty years, and ^(D)bear the brunt of your infidelity, until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness.