Numbers 32:6–15

⁶And Moses answered them: What, shall your brethren go to fight, and will you sit here?

⁷Why do ye overturn the minds of the children of Israel, that they may not dare to pass into the place which the Lord hath given them?

⁸Was it not thus your fathers did, when I sent from Cadesbarne to view the land?

⁹And when they were come as far as the valley of the cluster, having viewed all the country, they overturned the hearts of the children of Israel, that they should not enter into the coasts, which the Lord gave them.

¹⁰And he swore in his anger, saying:

¹¹If these men, that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land, which I promised with an oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: because they would not follow me,

¹²Except Caleb the son of Jephone the Cenezite, and Josue the son of Nun: these have fulfilled my will.

¹³And the Lord being angry against Israel, led them about through the desert forty years, until the whole generation, that had done evil in his sight, was consumed.

¹⁴And behold, said he, you are risen up instead of your fathers, the increase and offspring of sinful men, to augment the fury of the Lord against Israel.

¹⁵For if you will not follow him, he will leave the people in the wilderness, and you shall be the cause of the destruction of all.