25. They took the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down to us, and brought us word again, and said, “It is a good land which the Lord our God is giving us.”
26. Yet you were not willing to go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God.
27. You murmured in your tents, and said, “Because the Lord hates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us.
28. Where shall we go up? Our brothers have discouraged our hearts, saying, ‘The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and walled up to heaven. And moreover, we have seen the sons of the Anakites there.’ ”
29. Then I said to you, “Do not be terrified, or afraid of them.
30. The Lord your God who goes before you, He shall fight for you, just as all that He did for you in Egypt before your eyes,
31. and in the wilderness, where you saw how the Lord your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went, until you came to this place.”
32. Yet in this thing you did not believe the Lord your God,
33. who went in the way before you, to find you a place to pitch your tents, in fire by night and in a cloud by day, to show you by what way you should go.
34. The Lord heard the sound of your words, and was angry, and vowed, saying,
35. “Not one of these men of this evil generation will see the good land which I swore to give to your fathers.
36. The exception will be Caleb the son of Jephunneh. He shall see it, and to him I will give the land upon which he has walked, and to his children, because he has wholly followed the Lord.”
37. Also the Lord was angry with me on your account, saying, “You also shall not go in.
38. But Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall go in. Encourage him, for he will cause Israel to inherit it.
39. Moreover, your little ones, who you said would be a prey, and your children, who in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in, and to them will I give it, and they shall possess it.