Numbers 32:6–15

⁶And Moses said to the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben: “Shall your brethren go to war while you sit here? ⁷Now why will you ^hdiscourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the Lord has given them? ⁸Thus your fathers did ⁱwhen I sent them away from Kadesh Barnea ^jto see the land. ⁹For ^kwhen they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, so that they did not go into the land which the Lord had given them. ^10lSo the Lord’s anger was aroused on that day, and He swore an oath, saying, ¹¹‘Surely none of the men who came up from Egypt, ^mfrom twenty years old and above, shall see the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, because ⁿthey have not wholly followed Me, ¹²except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun, ^ofor they have wholly followed the Lord.’ ¹³So the Lord’s anger was aroused against Israel, and He made them ^pwander in the wilderness forty years, until ^qall the generation that had done evil in the sight of the Lord was gone. ¹⁴And look! You have risen in your fathers’ place, a brood of sinful men, to increase still more the ^rfierce anger of the Lord against Israel. ¹⁵For if you ^sturn away from following Him, He will once again leave them in the wilderness, and you will destroy all these people.”