Numbers 14:22-34

English Standard Version

^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. ^31 (Q)But your little ones, who you said would become a prey, I will bring in, and they shall know the land that ^(R)you have rejected. ³² But as for you, ^(S)your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness. ³³ And your children ^(T)shall be shepherds in the wilderness ^(U)forty years and shall ^(V)suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness. ^34 (W)According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, ^(X)forty days, a year for each day, you shall bear your iniquity forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.’