Numbers 32:6–15

⁶Moses said to the Gadites and Reubenites, “Should your fellow Israelites go to war while you sit here? ⁷Why do you discourage the Israelites from crossing over into the land the Lord has given them?^{r 8}This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to look over the land.^{s 9}After they went up to the Valley of Eshkol^t and viewed the land, they discouraged the Israelites from entering the land the Lord had given them. ¹⁰The Lord’s anger was aroused^u that day and he swore this oath:^{v 11}‘Because they have not followed me wholeheartedly, not one of those who were twenty years old or more^w when they came up out of Egypt^x will see the land I promised on oath^y to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob^z—¹²not one except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun, for they followed the Lord wholeheartedly.’^{a 13}The Lord’s anger burned against Israel^b and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the whole generation of those who had done evil in his sight was gone.^c

¹⁴“And here you are, a brood of sinners, standing in the place of your fathers and making the Lord even more angry with Israel.^{d 15}If you turn away from following him, he will again leave all this people in the wilderness, and you will be the cause of their destruction.^e”