Numbers 14:22-42

²²But yet all the men that have seen my majesty, and the signs that I have done in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now ten times, and have not obeyed my voice,

²³Shall not see the land for which I aware to their fathers, neither shall any one of them that hath detracted me behold it.

²⁴My servant Caleb, who being full of another spirit hath followed me, I will bring into this land which he hath gone round: and his seed shall possess it.

²⁵For the Amalecite and the Chanaanite dwell in the valleys. Tomorrow remove the camp, and return into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.

²⁶And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:

²⁷How long doth this wicked multitude murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel.

²⁸Say therefore to them: As I live, saith the Lord: According as you have spoken in my hearing, so will I do to you.

²⁹In the wilderness shall your carcasses lie. All you that were numbered from twenty years old and upward, and have murmured against me,

³⁰Shall not enter into the land, over which I lifted up my bend to make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephone, and Josue the son of Nun.

³¹But your children, of whom you said, that they should be a prey to the enemies, will I bring in: that they may see the land which you have despised.

³²Your carcasses shall lie in the wilderness.

³³Your children shall wander in the desert forty years, and shall bear your fornication, until the carcasses of their fathers be consumed ill the desert,

³⁴According to the number of the forty days, wherein you viewed the land: year shall be counted for a day. And forty years you shall receive your iniquities, and shall know my revenge:

³⁵For as I have spoken, so will I do to all this wicked multitude, that hath risen up together against me: in this wilderness shall it faint away and die.

³⁶Therefore all the men, whom Moses had sent to view the land, and who at their return had made the whole multitude to murmur against him, speaking ill of the land that it was naught,

³⁷Died and were struck in the sight of the Lord.

³⁸But Josue. the son of Nun. and Caleb the son of Jephone lived, of all them that had gone to view the land.

³⁹And Moses spoke all these words to all the children of Israel, and the people mourned exceedingly.

⁴⁰And behold rising up very early in the morning, they went up to the top of the mountain, and said: We are ready to go up to the place, of which the Lord hath spoken: for we have sinned.

⁴¹And Moses said to them: Why transgress you the word of the Lord, which shall not succeed prosperously with you?

⁴²Go not up, for the Lord is not with you: lest you fall before your enemies.