Numbers 14:20–30

²⁰The Lord replied, “I have forgiven them,^v as you asked. ²¹Nevertheless, as surely as I live^w and as surely as the glory of the Lord^x fills the whole earth,^{y 22}not one of those who saw my glory and the signs^z I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness but who disobeyed me and tested me ten times^a—²³not one of them will ever see the land I promised on oath^b to their ancestors. No one who has treated me with contempt^c will ever see it.^{d 24}But because my servant Caleb^e has a different spirit and follows me wholeheartedly,^f I will bring him into the land he went to, and his descendants will inherit it.^{g 25}Since the Amalekites^h and the Canaanitesⁱ are living in the valleys, turn^j back tomorrow and set out toward the desert along the route to the Red Sea.^ak”

²⁶The Lord said to Moses and Aaron: ²⁷“How long will this wicked community grumble against me? I have heard the complaints of these grumbling Israelites.^{l 28}So tell them, ‘As surely as I live,^m declares the Lord, I will do to youⁿ the very thing I heard you say: 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