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.’
35. I, Yahweh, have spoken; I will surely do this to all this evil community who has banded together against me. In this desert they will come to an end, and there they will die.”
36. As for the men whom Moses sent to explore the land, who returned and made the community grumble against him by spreading a report over the land,
37. the men who spread the evil report of the land died by the plague before Yahweh.
38. But Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh lived from among the men who went to explore the land.
39. And Moses spoke words to all the Israelites, and the people mourned greatly.
40. They rose early in the morning and went to the top of the mount, saying, “Here we are. We will go up to the place that Yahweh said, because we have sinned.”
41. But Moses said, “Why are you going against the command of Yahweh? It will not succeed.