^29 (A)your corpses will fall in this wilderness, even all ^(B)your ^[a]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 ^[b]swore to settle you, ^(C)except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun. ^31 (D)Your children, however, whom you said would become a prey—I will bring them in, and they will know the land which you have rejected. ^32 (E)But as for you, your corpses will fall in this wilderness. ³³ Your sons shall be shepherds for ^(F)forty years in the wilderness, and they will ^[c]suffer for your ^[d]unfaithfulness, until your corpses ^[e]lie in the wilderness. ³⁴ According to the ^(G)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 (H)I, the Lord, have spoken, surely this I will do to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. In this wilderness they shall be destroyed, and there they will die.’”

^36 (I)As for the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land and who returned and made all the congregation grumble against him by bringing out a bad report concerning the land, ³⁷ even ^(J)those men who brought out the very bad report of the land died by a ^(K)plague before the Lord. ³⁸ But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive out of those men who went to spy out the land.

Israel Repulsed

³⁹ When Moses spoke ^(L)these words to all the sons of Israel, ^(M)the people mourned greatly. ⁴⁰ In the morning, however, they rose up early and went up to the ^[g]ridge of the hill country, saying, “^(N)Here we are; ^[h]we have indeed sinned, but we will go up to the place which the Lord has promised.” ⁴¹ But Moses said, “^(O)Why then are you transgressing the ^[i]commandment of the Lord, when it will not succeed? ^42 (P)Do not go up, or you will be struck down before your enemies, for the Lord is not among you. ⁴³ For the Amalekites and the Canaanites will be there in front of you, and you will fall by the sword, inasmuch as you have turned back from following the Lord. And the Lord will not be with you.” ⁴⁴ But they went up heedlessly to the ^[j]ridge of the hill country; neither ^(Q)the ark of the covenant of the Lord nor Moses left the camp. ⁴⁵ Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country came down, and struck them and beat them down as far as ^(R)Hormah.

³⁷ even ^(A)those men who brought out the very bad report of the land died by a ^(B)plague before the Lord.

⁶⁵ For the Lord had said ^[a]of them, “^(A)They shall surely die in the wilderness.” And not a man was left of them, ^(B)except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.

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

⁵ Now I desire to ^(A)remind you, though ^(B)you know all things once for all, that ^[a]the Lord, ^(C)after saving a people out of the land of Egypt, ^[b]subsequently destroyed those who did not believe.