Numbers 14:20–30

God Promises Judgment

²⁰Then the Lord said, “I have pardoned, ^jaccording to your word. ²¹But truly, as I live, and as all ^kthe earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord, ^22lnone of the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have put me to the test these ^mten times and have not obeyed my voice, ²³ⁿshall see the land that I swore to give to their fathers. And none of those who despised me shall see it. ²⁴But my servant ^oCaleb, because he has a different spirit and has ^pfollowed me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it. ^25qNow, since the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valleys, ^rturn tomorrow and set out for the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.”

²⁶And the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, ²⁷“How long shall ^sthis wicked congregation grumble against me? ^tI have heard the grumblings of the people of Israel, which they grumble against me. ²⁸Say to them, ^u‘As I live, declares the Lord, ^vwhat you have said in my hearing I will do to you: ^29wyour dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and ^xof all your number, listed in the census ^yfrom twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against me, ³⁰not one shall come into the land where I ^zswore that I would make you dwell, ^aexcept Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.