²⁶But you refused to go. You would not obey the command of the Lord your God, ²⁷but grumbled in your tents, saying, “The Lord hates us. He brought us out of Egypt just to give us to the Amorites, who will destroy us. ²⁸Where can we go now? The spies we sent have made us afraid, because they said, ‘The people there are stronger and taller than we are. The cities are big, with walls up to the sky. And we saw the Anakites there!’ ”

²⁹Then I said to you, “Don’t be frightened; don’t be afraid of those people. ³⁰The Lord your God will go ahead of you and fight for you as he did in Egypt; you saw him do it. ³¹And in the desert you saw how the Lord your God carried you, like one carries a child. And he has brought you safely all the way to this place.”

³²But you still did not trust the Lord your God, even though ³³he had always gone before you to find places for you to camp. In a fire at night and in a cloud during the day, he showed you which way to go.

³⁴When the Lord heard what you said, he was angry and made an oath, saying, ³⁵“I promised a good land to your ancestors, but none of you evil people will see it. ³⁶Only Caleb son of Jephunneh will see it. I will give him and his descendants the land he walked on, because he followed the Lord completely.”

³⁷Because of you, the Lord was also angry with me and said, “You won’t enter the land either, ³⁸but your assistant, Joshua son of Nun, will enter it. Encourage him, because he will lead Israel to take the land for their own.

³⁹“Your little children that you said would be captured, who do not know right from wrong at this time, will go into the land. I will give the land to them, and they will take it for their own. ⁴⁰But you must turn around and follow the desert road toward the Red Sea.”

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