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

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”