7. “Now why do you discourage the heart of the children of Yisra’ĕl from passing over into the land which יהוה has given them?
8. “Thus your fathers did when I sent them away from Qaḏĕsh Barnĕa to see the land.
9. “For when they went up to the wadi Eshkol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Yisra’ĕl, so that they did not go into the land which יהוה had given them.
10. “Then the displeasure of יהוה burned on that day, and He swore an oath, saying,
11. ‘Not one of the men who came up from Mitsrayim, from twenty years old and above, is to see the land of which I swore to Aḇraham, Yitsḥaq, and Ya‛aqoḇ, because they did not follow Me completely,
12. except Kalĕḇ son of Yephunneh, the Qenizzite, and Yehoshua son of Nun, for they have followed יהוה completely.’
13. “So the displeasure of יהוה burned against Yisra’ĕl, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the eyes of יהוה was destroyed.
14. “And see, you have risen in your father’s place, an increase of men, sinners, to add still more the burning displeasure of יהוה against Yisra’ĕl.
15. “For if you turn away from following Him, He shall once again leave them in the wilderness, and you shall destroy all these people.”
16. Then they came near to him and said, “Let us build sheep-enclosures here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones,
17. but let us ourselves be armed, hastening before the children of Yisra’ĕl until we have brought them to their place. And our little ones shall dwell in the walled cities because of the inhabitants of the land.
18. “We shall not return to our homes until every one of the children of Yisra’ĕl has received his inheritance.
19. “For we shall not inherit with them on the other side of the Yardĕn and beyond, because our inheritance has fallen to us on this eastern side of the Yardĕn.”
20. And Mosheh said to them, “If you make this promise: if you arm yourselves before יהוה for battle,
21. and all your armed ones pass over the Yardĕn before יהוה until He has driven out His enemies from before Him,
22. and the land has been subdued before יהוה, then afterward you shall return, and be guiltless before יהוה and before Yisra’ĕl. And this land shall be your possession before יהוה.