32. But as for you, your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness,
33. and your children will wander in the wilderness forty years and suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your dead bodies lie finished in the wilderness.
34. According to the number of the days you have investigated this land, forty days – one day for a year – you will suffer for your iniquities, forty years, and you will know what it means to thwart me.
35. I, the Lord, have said, “I will surely do so to all this evil congregation that has gathered together against me. In this wilderness they will be finished, and there they will die!”’”
36. The men whom Moses sent to investigate the land, who returned and made the whole community murmur against him by producing an evil report about the land,
37. those men who produced the evil report about the land, died by the plague before the Lord.
38. But Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among the men who went to investigate the land, lived.
39. When Moses told these things to all the Israelites, the people mourned greatly.
40. And early in the morning they went up to the crest of the hill country, saying, “Here we are, and we will go up to the place that the Lord commanded, for we have sinned.”
41. But Moses said, “Why are you now transgressing the commandment of the Lord? It will not succeed!
42. Do not go up, for the Lord is not among you, and you will be defeated before your enemies.