17. So now Lord, I pray, show us your power and do what you promised when you said,
18. ‘I, the Lord, am not easily angered, and I show great love and faithfulness and forgive sin and rebellion. Yet I will not fail to punish children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generation for the sins of their parents.’
19. And now, Lord, according to the greatness of your unchanging love, forgive, I pray, the sin of these people, just as you have forgiven them ever since they left Egypt.”
20. The Lord answered, “I will forgive them, as you have asked.
21. But I promise that as surely as I live and as surely as my presence fills the earth,
22. none of these people will live to enter that land. They have seen the dazzling light of my presence and the miracles that I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, but they have tried my patience over and over again and have refused to obey me.
23. They will never enter the land which I promised to their ancestors. None of those who have rejected me will ever enter it.
24. But because my servant Caleb has a different attitude and has remained loyal to me, I will bring him into the land which he explored, and his descendants will possess the land