Numbers 32:6–15

⁶Moses replied, “Do you want to stay here while your fellow-Israelites go to war? ⁷How dare you try to discourage the people of Israel from crossing the Jordan into the land which the Lord has given them? ^8*That is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to explore the land. ^9*They went as far as the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, but when they returned, they discouraged the people from entering the land which the Lord had given them. ^10*The Lord was angry that day and made a promise: ^11*‘I swear that because they did not remain loyal to me, none of the men twenty years old or older who came out of Egypt will enter the land that I promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.’ ^12*This included everyone, except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun; they remained loyal to the Lord. ^13*The Lord was angry with the people and made them wander in the wilderness for 40 years until that whole generation that had displeased him was dead. ¹⁴And now you have taken your fathers’ place, a new generation of sinful men ready to bring down the fierce anger of the Lord on Israel again. ¹⁵If you people of Reuben and Gad refuse to follow him now, he will once again abandon all these people in the wilderness, and you will be responsible for their destruction.”