Numbers 14:34–38

34 You 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.B,i 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

36 So the men Moses sent to scout out the land, and who returned and incited the entire community to complain about him by spreading a negative report about the land—37 those men who spread the negative report about the land were struck down by the Lord. 38 Only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh remained alive of those men who went to scout out the land.