Deuteronomy 1:26–40

²⁶But ye would not go up, and rebelled against the word of Jehovah your God; ²⁷and ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because Jehovah hated 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? Our brethren have made our hearts melt, saying, They are a people greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there. ²⁹And I said unto you, Be not afraid, neither fear them; ³⁰Jehovah your God who goeth before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes; ³¹and in the wilderness where thou hast seen that Jehovah thy God bore thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came to this place. ³²But In this thing ye did not believe Jehovah your God, ³³who went in the way before you, to search you out a place for your encamping, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in the cloud by day. ³⁴And Jehovah heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and swore, saying, ³⁵None among these men, this evil generation, shall in any wise see that good land, which I swore to give unto your fathers! ³⁶Except 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 Jehovah. ³⁷Also Jehovah was angry with me on your account, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither. ³⁸Joshua the son of Nun, who standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: strengthen him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it. ³⁹And your little ones, of whom ye said, They shall be a prey, and your children, who this day know neither good nor evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it. ⁴⁰But ye, turn, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.