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.
38. But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, from the men that went to explore the land, lived.
39. Moses spoke these words to all the children of Israel, and the people mourned greatly.
40. They rose up early in the morning, and they went up to the top of the mountain, saying, “Here we are. We will go up to the place which the Lord has promised, for we have sinned.”
41. Moses said, “Why do you now transgress the commandment of the Lord? This will not prosper.
42. Do not go up, for the Lord is not among you; do not let yourselves be defeated by your enemies.
43. For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you will fall by the sword because you are turned from the Lord, and the Lord will not be with you.”
44. But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain. But the ark of the covenant of the Lord and Moses did not depart from the midst of the camp.
45. Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who dwelt on that mountain went down and defeated them, pursuing them as far as Hormah.