25. Now the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley: tomorrow turn ye, and get you into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.
26. And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
27. How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
28. Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord, surely as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
29. your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,
30. surely ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I lifted up my hand that I would make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
31. But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have rejected.
32. But as for you, your carcases shall fall in this wilderness.
33. And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be consumed in the wilderness.
34. After the number of the days in which ye spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my alienation.
35. I the Lord have spoken, surely this will I do unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
36. And the men, which Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report against the land,
37. even those men that did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before the Lord.
38. But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, remained alive of those men that went to spy out the land.
39. And Moses told these words unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.
40. And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up to the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the Lord hath promised: for we have sinned.
41. And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the Lord, seeing it shall not prosper?
42. Go not up, for the Lord is not among you; that ye be not smitten down before your enemies.
43. For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned back from following the Lord, therefore the Lord will not be with you.
44. But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.