Numbers 14:29–45

²⁹your 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, ³⁰doubtless 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. ^31uBut 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. ³²But as for you, ^yyour carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness. ³³And your children shall ^zwander in the wilderness ^aforty years, and ^bbear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness. ^34cAfter the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even ^dforty days, each day for a year, shall ye ^ebear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise. ^35fI the Lord have said, I will surely do it unto all ^gthis evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die. ^36hAnd the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land, ³⁷even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, ⁱdied by the plague before the Lord. ^38kBut Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still. ³⁹And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people ^lmourned greatly.

⁴⁰And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, ^mwe be here, and will go up unto the place which the Lord hath promised: for we have sinned. ⁴¹And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye ⁿtransgress the commandment of the Lord? but it shall not prosper. ^42oGo not up, for the Lord is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies. ⁴³For ^pthe Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the Lord, therefore the Lord will not be with you. ^44qBut they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless ^rthe ark of the covenant of the Lord, and Moses, departed not out of the camp. ⁴⁵Then ^sthe Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto ^tHormah.

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