26. Yet you were not willing to go there. Instead, being incredulous to the word of the Lord our God,
27. you murmured in your tents, and you said: 'The Lord hates us, and therefore he has led us away from the land of Egypt, so that he might deliver us into the hand of the Amorite and destroy us.
28. To where should we ascend? The messengers have terrified our heart by saying: "The multitude is very great, and taller than us. And the cities are great, and the walls extend even to the sky. We have seen the sons of the Anakim there." '
29. And I said to you: 'Do not be apprehensive, nor should you fear them.
30. The Lord God himself, who is your leader, will fight on your behalf, just as he did in Egypt in the sight of all.
31. And in the wilderness (as you yourselves saw), the Lord your God carried you, like a man who is accustomed to carrying his little son, along all the way that you walked, until you arrived at this place.'
32. And yet, despite all of this, you did not believe the Lord your God,
33. who went before you on the way, and who marked out the place where you should pitch your tents, showing you the way by fire in the night, and by a pillar of cloud in the day.
34. And when the Lord had heard the voice of your words, becoming angry, he swore and said:
35. 'None of the men of this wicked generation will see the good land, which I have promised by oath to your fathers,
36. except Caleb the son of Jephuneh. For he himself will see it, and I will give the land on which he has walked to him and to his sons, because he has followed the Lord.'
37. Neither is his indignation with the people a wonder, since the Lord also became angry with me because of you, and so he said: 'Neither will you enter into that place.
38. But Joshua, the son of Nun, your minister, shall himself enter on your behalf. Exhort and strengthen this man, and he himself shall divide the land by lot to Israel.
39. Your little ones, about whom you said that they would be led away as captives, and your sons, who to this day are ignorant of the difference between good and evil, they shall enter. And I will give the land to them, and they will possess it.