10. The Lord’s anger was aroused that day and he swore this oath:
11. ‘Because they have not followed me wholeheartedly, not one of those who were twenty years old or more when they came up out of Egypt will see the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—
12. not one except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun, for they followed the Lord wholeheartedly.’
13. The Lord’s anger burned against Israel and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the whole generation of those who had done evil in his sight was gone.
14. “And here you are, a brood of sinners, standing in the place of your fathers and making the Lord even more angry with Israel.
15. If you turn away from following him, he will again leave all this people in the wilderness, and you will be the cause of their destruction.”
16. Then they came up to him and said, “We would like to build pens here for our livestock and cities for our women and children.
17. But we will arm ourselves for battle and go ahead of the Israelites until we have brought them to their place. Meanwhile our women and children will live in fortified cities, for protection from the inhabitants of the land.
18. We will not return to our homes until each of the Israelites has received their inheritance.
19. We will not receive any inheritance with them on the other side of the Jordan, because our inheritance has come to us on the east side of the Jordan.”