7. And why discourage ye the lev Bnei Yisroel from going over into HaAretz which Hashem hath given them?
8. Thus did Avoteichem, when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to look over HaAretz.
9. For when they went up unto the Eshcol Valley, and saw HaAretz, they discouraged the lev Bnei Yisroel, that they should not go into HaAretz which Hashem had given them.
10. And the Af Hashem was kindled on that day, and He swore, saying,
11. Surely none of the anashim that came up out of Mitzrayim, from twenty years old and upward, shall see HaAdamah which I swore unto Avraham, unto Yitzchak, and unto Ya'akov; because they have not fully followed Me;
12. Except Kalev Ben Yephunneh the Kenezi, and Yehoshua Ben Nun; for they have fully followed after Hashem.
13. And the Af Hashem was kindled against Yisroel, and He made them wander in the midbar arba'im shanah, until kol hador that had done harah in the sight of Hashem, were consumed.
14. And, hinei, ye are risen up in the place of Avoteichem a brood of anashim chatta'im to add even more to charon af Hashem against Yisroel.
15. For if ye turn away from after Him, He will yet again leave them in the midbar; and ye shall destroy kol HaAm Hazeh.
16. And they came near unto him, and said, We will build gidrot tzon here for our mikneh, and towns for our little ones;
17. But we ourselves will go ready armed ahead of the Bnei Yisroel, until we have brought them unto their makom; and our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of HaAretz.
18. We will not return unto bateinu, until the Bnei Yisroel have inherited every ish his nachalah.
19. For we will not inherit with them across the Yarden, or beyond; because our nachalah is fallen to us on this side of the Yarden eastward.
20. And Moshe said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will go armed before Hashem to milchamah,