23. shall in no wise see the land which I did swear unto their fathers: none of them that despised me shall see it.
24. But my servant Caleb, because he hath another spirit in him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he came; and his seed shall possess it.
25. (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valley.) To-morrow turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness, on the way to the Red sea.
26. And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
27. How long shall I bear with this evil assembly, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
28. Say unto them, As surely as I live, saith Jehovah, if I do not do unto you as ye have spoken in mine ears!
29. In this wilderness shall your carcases fall; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number from twenty years old and upwards, who have murmured against me,
30. shall in no wise come into the land, concerning which I have lifted up my hand to make you dwell in it; save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
31. But your little ones, of whom ye said they should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land that ye have despised.
32. And as to you, your carcases shall fall in this wilderness.
33. And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
34. After the number of the days in which ye have searched out the land, forty days, each day for a year shall ye bear your iniquities forty years, and ye shall know mine estrangement from you.
35. I Jehovah have spoken; I will surely do it unto all this evil assembly which have gathered together against me! in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
36. And the men whom Moses had sent to search out the land, who returned, and made the whole assembly to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report upon the land,
37. even those men who had brought up an evil report upon the land, died by a plague before Jehovah.
38. But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, lived still of the men that had gone to search out the land.
39. And Moses told all these sayings to all the children of Israel; then the people mourned greatly.
40. And they rose up early in the morning, and went up to the hill-top, saying, Here are we, and we will go up to the place of which Jehovah has spoken; for we have sinned.
41. And Moses said, Why now do ye transgress the commandment of Jehovah? but it shall not prosper!