²⁰ Yahweh said, “I have forgiven them according to your word; ²¹ but as I am alive, the glory of Yahweh will fill all the earth. ²² But because all the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the desert yet tested me these ten times and did not listen to my voice, ²³ they will not see the land that I swore by oath to their ancestors,^[a] and all those who despised me will not see it. ²⁴ But my servant Caleb, because another spirit was with him, he remained true after me, and I will bring him into the land that he entered,^[b] and his offspring will take possession of it. ²⁵ And the Amalekites and the Canaanites live in the valleys; tomorrow turn and set out for the desert by way of the Red Sea.”^[c]

²⁶ And Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, ²⁷ “How long will I bear this evil community who are grumbling against me? I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites^[d] which they are making^[e] against me. ²⁸ Say to them, ‘Surely as I live,’ declares^[f] Yahweh, ‘just as you spoke in my hearing,^[g] so I will do to you; ²⁹ in this desert your corpses will fall, and all your counted ones, according to all your number, from twenty years old^[h] and above who grumbled against me. ³⁰ You yourselves will not come into the land that I swore by oath^[i] to make you to dwell in it, but Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun. ³¹ But your little children, whom you said would be plunder, I will bring them, and they will know the land that you rejected. ³² But for you, all your corpses will fall in this desert. ³³ And your children will be shepherds in the desert forty years,^[j] and you will bear your unfaithfulness until all your corpses have fallen^[k] in the desert. ³⁴ According to the number of the days^[l] that you explored the land, forty days,^[m] a day for each year,^[n] you will bear your sins forty years,^[o] and you will know my opposition.’ ³⁵ I, Yahweh, have spoken; I will surely do this to all this evil community who has banded together against me. In this desert they will come to an end, and there they will die.”