34 “Then Yahweh heard the sound of your words, and he was angry, and he swore, ⌊saying⌋,q 35 ‘No one of these menr of this evil generation will see the good land that I swore to give to your ancestors,s 36 except Caleb, the son of Jephunneh; he himselft shall see it, and to him I will give the land upon which he has trodden and to his sonsu because ⌊he followed Yahweh unreservedly⌋.’v 37 Even with me Yahweh was angry because of you, saying, ‘Not even you shall enter there. 38 Joshua, the son of Nun, ⌊your assistant⌋,w will go there; encourage him because he will cause Israel to inherit it. 39 And your little children, who you thought shall become plunder, and your sons, who do not today know good or bad, shall themselvesx go there, and I will give it to them, and they shall take possession of it. 40 But you turn and set out in the direction of the wilderness by way of the ⌊Red Sea⌋.’y

41 “You replied and said to me, ‘We have sinned against Yahweh, and now we will go up and fight according to all that Yahweh our God commanded us’; and so each man fastened on ⌊his battle gear⌋,z and you regarded it as easy to go up into the hill country. 42 So Yahweh said to me, ‘Say to them, “You shall not go up, and you shall not fight because I am not in your midst; you will be defeated ⌊before⌋a your enemies.” ’ 43 So I spoke to you, but you did not listen; you rebelled against the ⌊command of Yahweh⌋;b you behaved presumptuously, and you went up into the hill country. 44 The Amorites living in the hill country went out ⌊to oppose you⌋c and chased you as a swarm of wild honey bees do; and so they ⌊beat⌋d you down in Seir as far as Hormah. 45 So you returned and wept ⌊before Yahweh⌋;e but Yahweh did not listen to your voice and did not pay any attention to you. 46 You stayed in Kadesh many days; such were the days that you stayed there.