11 And Yahweh said to Moses, “How long until this people will despise me, and how long until they will not believe in me, and in all the signs that I have done in theirj midst? 12 I will strike themk with disease, and I will dispossess them;l I will make you into a greater and stronger nation than them.”m

13 And Moses said to Yahweh, “Then the Egyptians will hear that you brought up this people from theirn midst in your power, 14 and they will ⌊tell it⌋o to the inhabitants of this land. They heard that you, Yahweh, are in the midst of this people, that you are seen eye to eye, and your cloud is standing over them, and in a column of cloud you go before them by day and in a column of fire at night. 15 But if you destroy this people ⌊all at once⌋,p the nations that will have heard your message will say, 16 ‘Yahweh was unable to bring this people in the land that he swore by an oath, and he slaughtered them in the desert.’ 17 But now, please, let the power of my Lord be great, just as you spoke,

18 ‘Yahweh is ⌊slow to anger⌋q

and great of loyal love,

⌊forgiving⌋r sin and rebellion;

but surely he leaves nothing unpunished,

visiting the sin of the fathers on the sons

to the third and fourth generations.’

19 Please forgive the sin of this people according to the greatness of your loyal love, just as you ⌊forgave⌋s this people, from Egypt until now.”

20 Yahweh said, “I have forgiven them according to your word; 21 but as I am alive, the glory of Yahweh will fill all the earth. 22 But because all the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the desert yet tested me these ten times and did not listen to my voice, 23 they will not see the land that I swore by oath to their ancestors,t and all those who despised me will not see it. 24 But my servant Caleb, because another spirit was with him, he remained true after me, and I will bring him into the land that ⌊he entered⌋,u and his offspring will take possession of it. 25 And the Amalekites and the Canaanites live in the valleys; tomorrow turn and set out for the desert by way of the ⌊Red Sea⌋.”v

26 And Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, 27 “How long will I bear this evil community who are grumbling against me? I have heard the grumbling of the ⌊Israelites⌋w which ⌊they are making⌋x against me. 28 Say to them, ‘Surely as I live,’ ⌊declares⌋y Yahweh, ‘just as you spoke ⌊in my hearing⌋,z so I will do to you; 29 in this desert your corpses will fall, and all your counted ones, according to all your number, from ⌊twenty years old⌋a and above who grumbled against me. 30 You yourselves will not come into the land that ⌊I swore by oath⌋b to make you to dwell in it, but Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun. 31 But your little children, whom you said would be plunder, I will bring them, and they will know the land that you rejected. 32 But for you, all your corpses will fall in this desert. 33 And your children will be shepherds in the desert forty years,c and you will bear your unfaithfulness until ⌊all your corpses have fallen⌋d in the desert. 34 According to the number of the dayse that you explored the land, forty days,f ⌊a day for each year⌋,g you will bear your sins forty years,h and you will know my opposition.’ 35 I, Yahweh, have spoken; I will surely do this to all this evil community who has banded together against me. In this desert they will come to an end, and there they will die.”

36 As for the men whom Moses sent to explore the land, who returned and made the community grumble against him by spreading a report over the land, 37 the men who spread the evil report of the land died by the plague ⌊before Yahweh⌋.i 38 But Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh lived from among the men who went to explore the land.