Deuteronomy 1:26–40

²⁶Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but ^drebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God: ²⁷and ^eye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the Lord ^fhated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. ²⁸Whither shall we go up? ^gour brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, ^hThe people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the ⁱAnakims there. ²⁹Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them. ³⁰The Lord your God which goeth before you, ^jhe shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes; ³¹and in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the Lord thy God ^kbare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place. ³²Yet in this thing ^lye did not believe the Lord your God, ^33mwho went in the way before you, ⁿto search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day. ³⁴And the Lord heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, ^oand sware, saying, ^35pSurely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers, ^36qsave Caleb the son of Jephunneh, he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed the Lord. ³⁷Also the Lord ^rwas angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither. ³⁸But ^sJoshua the son of Nun, ^twhich standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: ^uencourage him: for he shall cause Israel to inherit it. ³⁹Moreover ^wyour little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day ^xhad no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it. ⁴⁰But as for you, ^yturn ye, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.