Numbers 14:20–30

²⁰The Lord answered, “I will forgive them, as you have asked. ^21*But I promise that as surely as I live and as surely as my presence fills the earth, ^22*none of these people will live to enter that land. They have seen the dazzling light of my presence and the miracles that I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, but they have tried my patience over and over again and have refused to obey me. ^23*They will never enter the land which I promised to their ancestors. None of those who have rejected me will ever enter it. ^24*But because my servant Caleb has a different attitude and has remained loyal to me, I will bring him into the land which he explored, and his descendants will possess the land ²⁵in whose valleys the Amalekites and the Canaanites now live. Turn back tomorrow and go into the wilderness in the direction of the Gulf of Aqaba.”

The Punishes the People for Complaining

²⁶The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, ²⁷“How much longer are these wicked people going to complain against me? I have heard enough of these complaints! ²⁸Now give them this answer: ‘I swear that as surely as I live, I will do to you just what you have asked. I, the Lord, have spoken. ^29*You will die and your corpses will be scattered across this wilderness. Because you have complained against me, none of you over twenty years of age will enter that land. ³⁰I promised to let you live there, but not one of you will, except Caleb and Joshua.