31. “As for your children—whom you said would be like plunder—I will bring them in and they will experience the land that you spurned.
32. But your bodies will drop in this wilderness.
33. Your children will be herdsmen in the wilderness for 40 years. They will suffer because of your unfaithfulness until your corpses are consumed in the wilderness.
34. For 40 years, corresponding to the number of the 40 days you explored the land—one year for each day—you will suffer for your iniquities and know My hostility.
35. I, Adonai, have spoken and certainly will I do this to all this wicked community banding together against Me. In this wilderness they will meet their end and there they will die!”
36. Then the men whom Moses had sent to explore the land, who had returned and caused the whole community to grumble against him by spreading a bad report about the land,
37. these men, spreading the bad report about the land, died of the plague in Adonai’s presence.
38. Of those men who had gone to explore the land, only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh survived.
39. When Moses related these things to all of Bnei-Yisrael, the people mourned bitterly.
40. They rose the next morning and went up to the high mountains, saying, “Look! Let’s go up to the place which Adonai promised. For we have sinned.”
41. But Moses said, “Why are you disobeying the mouth of Adonai? That will never succeed.
42. You should not go up, because Adonai will not be among you and you will be defeated before your enemies!
43. For the Amalekites and Canaanites are there in front of you, and you will fall by the sword. Adonai will not be with you, because you turned away from following Adonai.”
44. But presumptuously they went up to the high mountain country, though neither the Ark of Adonai’s covenant nor Moses moved from within the camp.
45. The Amalekites and Canaanites living in the mountain country came down, attacked them, and beat them down all the way to Hormah.