25. Now listen, Moses! The Amalekites and the Canaanites live in the valleys of Canaan. And tomorrow morning, you'll need to turn round and head back into the desert towards the Red Sea.
26. The Lord told Moses and Aaron
27-28. to give this message to the people of Israel:You sinful people have complained against me too many times! Now I swear by my own life that I will give you exactly what you wanted.
29. You will die here in the desert, and your dead bodies will cover the ground. You have insulted me, and none of you men who are over twenty years old
30. will enter the land that I solemnly promised to give you as your own—only Caleb and Joshua will go in.
31. You were worried that your own children would be captured. But I, the Lord, will let them enter the land you have rejected.
32. You will die here in the desert!
33. Your children will wander around in this desert forty years, suffering because of your sins, until all of you are dead.
34. I will cruelly punish you every day for the next forty years—one year for each day that the land was explored.
35. You sinful people who ganged up against me will die here in the desert.
36. Ten of the men sent to explore the land had brought back bad news and had made the people complain against the Lord.
37. So he sent a deadly disease that killed those men,
38. but he let Joshua and Caleb live.
39. The people of Israel were very sad after Moses gave them the Lord's message.
40. So they got up early the next morning and got ready to head towards the hill country of Canaan. They said, “We were wrong to complain about the Lord. Let's go into the land that he promised us.”
41. But Moses replied, “You're disobeying the Lord! Your plan won't work,