Numbers 14:29–37

²⁹In this wilderness your bodies will fall^o—every one of you twenty years old or more^p who was counted in the census^q and who has grumbled against me. ³⁰Not one of you will enter the land^r I swore with uplifted hand^s to make your home, except Caleb son of Jephunneh^t and Joshua son of Nun.^{u 31}As for your children that you said would be taken as plunder, I will bring them in to enjoy the land you have rejected.^{v 32}But as for you, your bodies will fall^w in this wilderness. ³³Your children will be shepherds here for forty years,^x suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness. ³⁴For forty years^y—one year for each of the forty days you explored the land^z—you will suffer for your sins and know what it is like to have me against you.’ ³⁵I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will surely do these things^a to this whole wicked community, which has banded together against me. They will meet their end in this wilderness; here they will die.^b”

³⁶So the men Moses had sent^c to explore the land, who returned and made the whole community grumble^d against him by spreading a bad report^e about it—³⁷these men who were responsible for spreading the bad report^f about the land were struck down and died of a plague^g before the Lord.