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.
42. You should not go up because Yahweh is not in your midst; do not let yourselves be defeated in the presence of your enemies,
43. because the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you will fall by the sword; because you have turned back from Yahweh, and Yahweh will not be with you.”
44. But they dared to go to the top of the mountain, and the ark of the covenant of Yahweh and Moses did not depart from the midst of the camp.
45. So the Amalekites and the Canaanites who were living on the mountain descended, and they beat them down, up to Hormah.