Numbers 14:20–35

²⁰The Lord responded, “I have pardoned them as you requested. ²¹Yet as I live and as the whole earth is filled with the Lord’s glory,^{ae 22}none of the men who have seen my glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tested me these ten times and did not obey me, ²³will ever see the land I swore to give their ancestors.^a None of those who have despised me^b will see it. ²⁴But since my servant Caleb has a different spirit and has remained loyal to me, I will bring him into the land where he has gone, and his descendants will inherit it.^{c 25}Since the Amalekites and Canaanites are living in the lowlands,^B turn back tomorrow and head for the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea.”^d

²⁶Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron: ²⁷“How long must I endure this evil community that keeps complaining about me? I have heard the Israelites’ complaints that they make against me.^{e 28}Tell them: As I live—this is the Lord’s declaration—I will do to you exactly as I heard you say. ²⁹Your corpses will fall in this wilderness—all of you who were registered in the census, the entire number of you twenty years old or more^f—because you have complained about me. ³⁰I swear that none of you will enter the land I promised^A to settle you in, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun. ³¹I will bring your children whom you said would become plunder^g into the land you rejected, and they will enjoy it.^{h 32}But as for you, your corpses will fall in this wilderness. ³³Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years and bear the penalty for your acts of unfaithfulness until all your corpses lie scattered in the wilderness. ³⁴You will bear the consequences of your iniquities forty years based on the number of the forty days that you scouted the land, a year for each day.^Bi You will know my displeasure.^{C 35}I, the Lord, have spoken. I swear that I will do this to the entire evil community that has conspired against me.^j They will come to an end in the wilderness, and there they will die.”^k