Deuteronomy 1:26–40

²⁶“But you were not willing to go up. You rebelled against the command of the Lord your God. ²⁷You grumbled in your tents^v and said, ‘The Lord brought us out of the land of Egypt to hand us over to the Amorites in order to destroy us, because he hates us. ²⁸Where can we go? Our brothers have made us lose heart,^Aw saying: The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, fortified to the heavens.^a We also saw the descendants of the Anakim^b there.’

²⁹“So I said to you: Don’t be terrified or afraid of them!^{c 30}The Lord your God who goes before you^d will fight for you,^e just as you saw him do for you in Egypt. ³¹And you saw in the wilderness how the Lord your God carried you as a man carries his son all along the way you traveled until you reached this place. ³²But in spite of this you did not trust the Lord your God, ³³who went before you on the journey to seek out a place for you to camp. He went in the fire by night and in the cloud by day to guide you on the road you were to travel.

³⁴“When the Lord heard your^B words, he grew angry and swore an oath: ³⁵‘None of these men in this evil generation will see the good land I swore to give your ancestors,^{f 36}except Caleb the son of Jephunneh. He will see it, and I will give him and his descendants the land on which he has set foot, because he remained loyal to the Lord.’

³⁷“The Lord was angry with me also because of you and said, ‘You will not enter there either.^{g 38}Joshua son of Nun, who attends you, will enter it. Encourage him, for he will enable Israel to inherit it.^{h 39}Your children, who you said would be plunder, your sons who^C don’t yet know good from evil, will enter there. I will give them the land, and they will take possession of it. ⁴⁰But you are to turn back and head for the wilderness by way of the Red Sea.’^j