18‘I do not quickly become angry; instead, I love people very much, and I forgive people for having sinned and having disobeyed my laws. But I will always punish LIT people who are guilty of doing what is wrong. When parents sin, I will punish them, but I will also punish their children and their grandchildren and their great-grandchildren and their great-great-grandchildren.’
19So, because you love people like that, forgive these people for the sins that they have committed, just like you have continued to forgive them ever since they left Egypt.”
20Then Yahweh replied, “I have forgiven them, as you requested me to.
21But, just as certainly as I live and that people all over the world can see my ◄glory/glorious power►, I solemnly declare this:
22All these people saw my glory and all the miracles that I performed in Egypt and in the desert, but they disobeyed me, and many times they tested whether they could continue to do evil things without my punishing them.
23Because of that, not one of them will see the land that I promised their ancestors that I would give to them. No one who rejected me will see that land.
24But Caleb, who serves me well, is different from the others. He obeys me completely. So I will bring him into that land that he has already seen, and his descendants will inherit/possess some of it.
25So, since the descendants of Amalek and Canaan who are living in the valleys in Canaan are very strong, when you leave here tomorrow, instead of traveling toward Canaan, go back along the road through the desert towards the Red Sea.”
26Then Yahweh said to Aaron and Moses/me,
27“How long will the wicked people of this nation keep complaining about me RHQ? I have heard everything that they have grumbled/complained against me.
28So now tell them this: ‘Just as certainly as I, Yahweh, live, I will do exactly what you said would happen.
29I will cause all of you to die here in this desert! Because you grumbled about me, none of you who are more than twenty years old and who were counted when Moses counted everyone
30will enter the land that I solemnly promised to give to you. Only Caleb and Joshua will enter that land.
31You said that your children would be taken from you to become slaves, but I will take them into the land, and they will enjoy living in the land that you ◄rejected/said that you could not conquer►.
32But as for you adults, you will die here in this desert.
33And like shepherds wander around in the desert as they take care of their sheep, your children will wander around in this desert for forty years. Because you adults were not loyal/faithful to me, your children will suffer until you all die in the desert.
34You will suffer for your sins for forty years. That will be one year for each of the forty days that the twelve men explored Canaan land. And I will be like an enemy to you.’
35This will certainly happen because I, Yahweh, have said it! I will do these things to every one in this group who conspired against me. They ◄conspired against/decided together to reject► me here in the desert, and they will all die right here in this desert!”
36Then the ten men who had explored Canaan and who had urged the people to rebel against Yahweh by giving reports that discouraged the people
37were immediately struck with a plague/disease that Yahweh sent, and they died.
Numbers 14
Numbers 14:18-37