Numbers 14:23-41

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.

³⁸Of the twelve men who had explored Canaan, only Joshua and Caleb remained alive.

³⁹When Moses/I reported to the Israeli people what Yahweh had said, many of them were very sad.

⁴⁰So the people got up early the next morning and started to go toward the hilly area in Canaan. They said, “ We know that we have sinned, but now we are ready to enter the land that Yahweh promised to give to us.”

⁴¹But Moses/I said, “Yahweh commanded you to return to the desert, so why are you now disobeying him RHQ? It will not ◄succeed/be possible►.