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.”