Numbers 14:15–33

15 Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying, 16 Because the Lord was not zable to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness. 17 And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying, 18 The Lord is alongsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, bvisiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation. 19 cPardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people daccording unto the greatness of thy mercy, and eas thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even ||until now. 20 And the Lord said, I have pardoned faccording to thy word: 21 But as truly as I live, gall the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord. 22 hBecause all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now ithese ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; 23 k†Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it: 24 But my servant lCaleb, because he had another spirit with him, and mhath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it. 25 (Now nthe Amalekites and nthe Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To morrow turn you, and oget you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.

26 And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 27 How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? pI have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me. 28 Say unto them, qAs truly as I live, saith the Lord, ras ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you: 29 Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and sall that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me, 30 Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I †sware to make you dwell therein, tsave Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. 31 uBut your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which xye have despised. 32 But as for you, yyour carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness. 33 And your children shall ||zwander in the wilderness aforty years, and bbear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.