⁶But Moses said to the descendants^f of Gad and to the descendants^g of Reuben, “Will your brothers go to war while you yourselves live here? ⁷Why are you discouraging the hearts of the Israelites^h from crossing into the land that Yahweh gave to them? ⁸This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land. ⁹When they went up to the valleyⁱ of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the Israelites^j so that they did not come to the land that Yahweh gave to them. ¹⁰So Yahweh’s anger burned^k on that day, and he swore an oath, saying, ¹¹‘The men who went up from Egypt, from those twenty years old^l and above, will not see the land that I swore with an oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob because they have not wholly followed me, ¹²except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun, because they followed Yahweh wholly.’ ¹³And Yahweh became angry,^m and he made them wander in the desert forty years until the entire generation who did evil in the sight of Yahwehⁿ had died.^o ¹⁴Behold, you stand in the place of your fathers, a brood of sinful men, to increase still more Yahweh’s fierce anger^p against Israel. ¹⁵If you turn from following him, he will again abandon them^q in the wilderness, and you would have destroyed all these people.”

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Footnotes

fOr “sons”
gOr “sons”
hLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
iOr “the wadi”
jLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
kLiterally “Yahweh’s nose became hot”
lLiterally “a son of twenty years”
mLiterally “Yahweh’s nose became hot”
nLiterally “eyes of Yahweh”
oLiterally “had completed”
pLiterally “the fierce anger of Yahweh’s nose”
qHebrew “him”