30. will enter the land in which I promised to settle you, with the exception of Caleb, Jephunneh’s son, and Joshua, Nun’s son.
31. But your children, whom you said would be taken by force, I’ll bring them in and they will know the land that you rejected.
32. Your bodies, however, will fall in this desert,
33. and your children will be shepherds in the desert for forty years. They will suffer for your unfaithfulness, until the last of your bodies fall in the desert.
34. For as many days as you explored the land, that is, forty days, just as many years you’ll bear your guilt, that is, forty years. This is how you will understand my frustration."
35. I the Lord have spoken. I will do this to the entire wicked community who gathered against me. They will die in this desert. There they’ll meet their end.
36. The men whom Moses sent out to explore the land had returned and caused the entire community to complain against him by starting a rumor about the land.
37. These men died by a plague in the Lord’s presence on account of their false rumor.
38. But Joshua, Nun’s son, and Caleb, Jephunneh’s son, survived from those men who went to explore the land.
39. Moses spoke these words to all the Israelites, and the people mourned bitterly.
40. They rose early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain range, saying, "Let’s go up to the place the Lord told us to, for we have sinned."
41. But Moses said, "Why do you disobey the Lord’s command? It won’t succeed.