²⁶ Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, ²⁷ “How long shall I bear with this evil congregation who are ^(A)grumbling against Me? I have heard the complaints of the sons of Israel, which they are ^[a]making against Me. ²⁸ Say to them, ‘^(B)As I live,’ declares Yahweh, ‘just as ^(C)you have spoken in My hearing, so I will surely do to you; ^29 (D)your corpses will fall in this wilderness, even all ^(E)your ^[b]numbered men, according to your complete number from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against Me. ³⁰ Surely you shall not come into the land in which I ^[c]swore to make you dwell, ^(F)except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun. ^31 (G)Your little ones, however, who you said would become plunder—I will bring them in, so that they will know the land which you have rejected. ^32 (H)But as for you, your corpses will fall in this wilderness. ³³ And your sons shall be shepherds for ^(I)forty years in the wilderness, and they will ^[d]suffer for your ^[e]unfaithfulness, until your corpses come to an end in the wilderness. ³⁴ According to the ^(J)number of days which you spied out the land, forty days, for every day you shall bear your ^[f]guilt a year, even forty years, and you will know My opposition. ^35 (K)I, Yahweh, have spoken, surely this I will do to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. In this wilderness they shall come to an end, and there they will die.’”

⁵ Nevertheless, with most of them God was not well-pleased. For ^(A)they were ^[a]struck down in the wilderness.