²⁰Yahweh said, “I have forgiven them according to your word; ²¹but as I am alive, the glory of Yahweh will fill all the earth. ²²But 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, ²³they will not see the land that I swore by oath to their ancestors,^t and all those who despised me will not see it. ²⁴But 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. ²⁵And the Amalekites and the Canaanites live in the valleys; tomorrow turn and set out for the desert by way of the Red Sea.”^v

²⁶And 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. ²⁸Say to them, ‘Surely as I live,’ declares^y Yahweh, ‘just as you spoke in my hearing,^z so I will do to you; ²⁹in 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. ³⁰You 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. ³¹But your little children, whom you said would be plunder, I will bring them, and they will know the land that you rejected. ³²But for you, all your corpses will fall in this desert. ³³And 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. ³⁴According to the number of the days^e 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.’ ³⁵I, 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.”

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Footnotes

tOr “fathers”
uOr “he went to”
vLiterally “sea of reed”
wLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
xLiterally “they are grumbling”
yLiterally “declaration of”
zLiterally “in my ears”
aLiterally “a son of twenty years”
bLiterally “I lifted up my hand”
cHebrew “year”
dLiterally “until to complete your corpses”
eHebrew “day”
fHebrew “day”
gLiterally “a day for a year a day for a year”
hHebrew “year”