25. They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down to us, and brought us word again, and said, “It is a good land which Yahweh our God gives to us.”
26. Yet you wouldn’t go up, but rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God.
27. You murmured in your tents, and said, “Because Yahweh hated us, he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
28. Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our heart melt, saying, ‘The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to the sky. Moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there!’”
29. Then I said to you, “Don’t dread, neither be afraid of them.
30. Yahweh your God who goes before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,
31. and in the wilderness, where you have seen how that Yahweh your God bore you, as a man does bear his son, in all the way that you went, until you came to this place.”
32. Yet in this thing you didn’t believe Yahweh your God,
33. who went before you on the way, to seek out a place for you to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in the cloud by day.
34. Yahweh heard the voice of your words, and was angry, and swore, saying,
35. “Surely not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land, which I swore to give to your fathers,
36. except Caleb the son of Jephunneh. He shall see it. I will give the land that he has trodden on to him, and to his children, because he has wholly followed Yahweh.”
37. Also Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, saying, “You also shall not go in there.
38. Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, shall go in there. Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.