³⁵ I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will surely do these things^(A) to this whole wicked community, which has banded together against me. They will meet their end in this wilderness; here they will die.^(B)”

³⁶ So the men Moses had sent^(C) to explore the land, who returned and made the whole community grumble^(D) against him by spreading a bad report^(E) about it— ³⁷ these men who were responsible for spreading the bad report^(F) about the land were struck down and died of a plague^(G) before the Lord.