Numbers 32:6–15

⁶And Moses saith to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben, ‘Do your brethren go in to the battle, and ye—do ye sit here? ⁷and why discourage ye the heart of the sons of Israel from passing over unto the land which Jehovah hath given to them?

⁸‘Thus did your fathers in my sending them from Kadesh-Barnea to see the land; ⁹and they go up unto the valley of Eshcol, and see the land, and discourage the heart of the sons of Israel so as not to go in unto the land which Jehovah hath given to them; ¹⁰and the anger of Jehovah burneth in that day, and He sweareth, saying, ¹¹They do not see—the men who are coming up out of Egypt from a son of twenty years and upward—the ground which I have sworn to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, for they have not been fully after Me; ¹²save Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua son of Nun, for they have been fully after Jehovah; ¹³and the anger of Jehovah burneth against Israel, and He causeth them to wander in the wilderness forty years, until the consumption of all the generation which is doing the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah.

¹⁴‘And lo, ye have risen in the stead of your fathers, an increase of men—sinners, to add yet to the fury of the anger of Jehovah toward Israel; ¹⁵when ye turn back from after Him, then He hath added yet to leave him in the wilderness, and ye have done corruptly to all this people.’