25. Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites lived in the valley. Tomorrow you will turn, and you will set out for the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.”
26. The Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying:
27. How long will this evil assembly be murmuring against Me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel which they murmur against Me.
28. Say to them, “As I live,” says the Lord, “just as you have spoken in My ears, so I will do to you.
29. In this wilderness your corpses will fall, and all who were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against Me,
30. you will not go into the land which I swore by My hand to cause you to dwell in it, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.
31. But your children, whom you said would be a prey, I will bring them in and they will know the land, which you rejected.
32. But as for you, your corpses will fall in this wilderness.
33. Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness forty years, and they will suffer for your fornications, until your corpses are in the wilderness.
34. According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, a year for each day you will bear your iniquity, forty years, and you will know My displeasure.”
35. I the Lord have spoken. I will surely do this to all this evil assembly gathered against Me. In this wilderness they will be finished, and there they will die.
36. The men whom Moses sent to explore the land, who returned and made all the assembly murmur against him by bringing up an evil report about the land,
37. the men who brought an evil report about the land, died by the pestilence before the Lord.