²⁶ The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, ²⁷ “How long will this wicked assembly grumble against me? I have heard the complaints of the people of Israel that they grumble against me. ²⁸ So I declare to them: As I live, says the Lord, I will make the things you have said in my hearing happen: ²⁹ your dead bodies will fall to the ground in this wilderness. None of you who are twenty years or older and who have complained about me ³⁰ will enter the land in which I swore I would make you dwell except for Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, the son of Nun. ³¹ However, as for your little ones whom you said would become plunder, I will bring them in and they will come to know the land that you have despised. ³² But your dead bodies will fall to the ground in this wilderness. ³³ Your children will wander in this wilderness for forty years, and they will bear the burden of your unfaithfulness, until your dead bodies lie in the wilderness. ³⁴ The number of days that you explored the land was forty, and there will be one year for each day. You will bear the burden of your sins for forty years and you will come to know my rejection.^{[a] 35} I, the Lord, have proclaimed this. I will surely do this to this evil assembly that has gathered together against me. In this wilderness they will come to an end, there they will die.”