Numbers 14:20–35

²⁰Then the Lord said, “I do forgive, just as you have asked;^{* 21}nevertheless, as I live and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord,^{* 22}none of the people who have seen my glory and the signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness and yet have tested me these ten times and have not obeyed my voice ²³shall see the land that I swore to give to their ancestors; none of those who despised me shall see it. ²⁴But my servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed me wholeheartedly, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it.^{* 25}Now, since the Amalekites and the Canaanites live in the valleys, turn tomorrow and set out for the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.”^z*

An Attempted Invasion Is Repulsed

²⁶And the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, ²⁷“How long shall this wicked congregation complain against me? I have heard the complaints of the Israelites, which they complain against me.^{* 28}Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘I will do to you the very things I heard you say:^{* 29}your dead bodies shall fall in this very wilderness, and of all your number included in the census from twenty years old and up who have complained against me,^{* 30}not one of you shall come into the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.^{* 31}But your little ones, who you said would become plunder, I will bring in, and they shall know the land that you have despised.^{* 32}But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.^{* 33}And your children shall be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years and shall suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness.^{* 34}According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, for every day a year, you shall bear your iniquity, forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.’^{* 35}I the Lord have spoken; surely I will do thus to all this wicked congregation gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall come to a full end, and there they shall die.”^*