31. But I will bring your little ones that you said should be captured or killed in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.
32. But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.
33. Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies are consumed in the wilderness.
34. After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, you will bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you will know my alienation.’
35. I, the Lord, have spoken. I will surely do this to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.”
36. The men whom 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 who brought 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 who went to spy out the land.
39. Moses told these words to all the children of Israel, and the people mourned greatly.
40. They rose up early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, “Behold, we are here, and will go up to the place which the Lord has promised; for we have sinned.”
41. Moses said, “Why now do you disobey the commandment of the Lord, since it shall not prosper?
42. Don’t go up, for the Lord isn’t among you; that way you won’t be struck down before your enemies.