17. But now, please, let the power of my Lord be great, just has you spoke,
18. ‘Yahweh is slow to anger and great of loyal love, forgiving sin and rebellion; but surely he leaves nothing unpunished, visiting the sin of the fathers on the sons to the third and fourth generations.’
19. Please forgive the sin of this people according to the greatness of your loyal love, just as you forgave this people, from Egypt until now.”
20. Yahweh said, “I have forgiven them according to your word;
21. but as I am alive, the glory of Yahweh will fill all the earth.
22. But because all the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the desert yet tested me these ten times and did not listen to my voice,
23. they will not see the land that I swore by oath to their ancestors, and all those who despised me will not see it.
24. But my servant Caleb, because another spirit was with him, he remained true after me, and I will bring him into the land that he entered, and his offspring will take possession of it.
25. And the Amalekites and the Canaanites live in the valleys; tomorrow turn and set out for the desert by way of the Red Sea.”
26. And Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
27. “How long will I bear this evil community who are grumbling against me? I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites which they are making against me.
28. Say to them, ‘Surely as I live,’ declares Yahweh, ‘just as you spoke in my hearing, so I will do to you;
29. in this desert your corpses will fall, and all your counted ones, according to all your number, from twenty years old and above who grumbled against me.
30. You yourselves will not come into the land that I swore by oath to make you to dwell in it, but Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
31. But your little children, whom you said would be plunder, I will bring them, and they will know the land that you rejected.
32. But for you, all your corpses will fall in this desert.
33. And your children will be shepherds in the desert forty years, and you will bear your unfaithfulness until all your corpses have fallen in the desert.
34. According to the number of the days that you explored the land, forty days, a day for each year, you will bear your sins forty years, and you will know my opposition.’