30. The Lord 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 the Lord 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 the Lord 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. The Lord 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 the Lord.”
37. Also the Lord 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.
39. Moreover your little ones, whom you said would be captured or killed, and your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, shall go in there. I will give it to them, and they shall possess it.
40. But as for you, turn, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Sea of Suf.”
41. Then you answered and said to me, “We have sinned against the Lord, we will go up and fight, according to all that the Lord our God commanded us.” Every man of you put on his weapons of war, and presumed to go up into the hill country.