Numbers 32:6–15

⁶And Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye abide here? ⁷And why do ye discourage the children of Israel from going over into the land that Jehovah has given them? ⁸Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land: ⁹they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, and discouraged the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land that Jehovah had given them. ¹⁰And Jehovah’s anger was kindled the same time, and he swore, saying, ¹¹If the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land that I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob! for they have not wholly followed me; ¹²save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun; for they have wholly followed Jehovah. ¹³And Jehovah’s anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the whole generation was consumed that had done evil in the eyes of Jehovah. ¹⁴And behold, ye are risen up in your fathers’ stead, a progeny of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of Jehovah toward Israel. ¹⁵If ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people.