39. “Then the Lord said to all of us, ‘Your children, who are still too young to know right from wrong, will enter the land — the children you said would be seized by your enemies. I will give the land to them, and they will occupy it.
40. But as for you people, turn round and go back into the desert along the road to the Gulf of Aqaba.’
41. “You replied, ‘Moses, we have sinned against the Lord. But now we will attack, just as the Lord our God commanded us.’ Then each one of you got ready to fight, thinking it would be easy to invade the hill country.
42. “But the Lord said to me, ‘Warn them not to attack, for I will not be with them, and their enemies will defeat them.’