Numbers 14:19-33

¹⁹Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people, according to the greatness of thy beneficence, and as thou hast been indulgent to this people, from Egypt even until hitherto.

²⁰And the Lord said, I have pardoned according to thy word.

²¹But as truly as I live, and as all the earth is filled with the glory of the Lord:—

²²That all the men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I have displayed in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice,

²³Shall surely not see the land which I have sworn unto their fathers, yea all those that have provoked me shall not see it.

²⁴But my servant Caleb, as a reward that he had another spirit with him, and followed me fully,—therefore will I bring him into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.

²⁵And the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valley: tomorrow turn you, and set forward into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.

²⁶And the Lord spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

²⁷How long shall indulgence be given to this evil congregation, that murmur against me? the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me, have I heard.

²⁸Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the Lord, as ye have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you:

²⁹In this wilderness shall your carcasses fall, and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward; ye who have murmured against me;

³⁰Truly ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I have lifted up my hand to let you dwell therein; save Caleb the son of Yephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

³¹But your little ones of which ye said, They would become a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.

³²But as for you, your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness.

³³And your children shall wander about in the wilderness forty years, and bear your backslidings, until your carcasses be spent in the wilderness.