Deuteronomy 1:26–40

^26z“Nevertheless you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the Lord your God; ²⁷and you ^acomplained in your tents, and said, ‘Because the Lord ^bhates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. ²⁸Where can we go up? Our brethren have ⁹discouraged our hearts, saying, ^c“The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; moreover we have seen the sons of the ^dAnakim there.” ’

²⁹“Then I said to you, ‘Do not be terrified, ^eor afraid of them. ^30fThe Lord your God, who goes before you, He will fight for you, according to all He did for you in Egypt before your eyes, ³¹and in the wilderness where you saw how the Lord your God carried you, as a ^gman carries his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place.’ ³²Yet, for all that, ^hyou did not believe the Lord your God, ³³ⁱwho went in the way before you ^jto search out a place for you to pitch your tents, to show you the way you should go, in the fire by night and in the cloud by day.

The Penalty for Israel’s Rebellion

³⁴“And the Lord heard the sound of your words, and was angry, ^kand took an oath, saying, ^35l‘Surely not one of these men of this evil generation shall see that good land of which I ¹swore to give to your fathers, ^36mexcept Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him and his children I am giving the land on which he walked, because ⁿhe ²wholly followed the Lord.’ ^37oThe Lord was also angry with me for your sakes, saying, ‘Even you shall not go in there. ^38pJoshua the son of Nun, ^qwho stands before you, he shall go in there. ^rEncourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.

^39s‘Moreover your little ones and your children, who ^tyou say will be victims, who today ^uhave no knowledge of good and evil, they shall go in there; to them I will give it, and they shall possess it. ^40vBut as for you, turn and take your journey into the wilderness by the Way of the Red Sea.’