Numbers 14:23-41

²³shall not see the land for which I swore to their fathers, neither any of them that backbited me, shall see it.

²⁴I shall lead my servant Caleb, that was full of another spirit and followed me, into this land, which he compassed, and his seed shall wield it.

²⁵For Amalek and Canaanites dwell in the valleys, tomorrow move ye the tents, and turn ye again into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.

²⁶And the Lord spake to Moses and to Aaron, and said,

²⁷How long grutcheth this worst multitude against me? I have heard the grutching complaints of the sons of Israel.

²⁸Therefore say thou to them, I live, saith the Lord; as ye spake while I heard, so I shall do to you;

²⁹your carrions, or dead bodies, shall lie in this wilderness. All ye that be numbered, from twenty years and above, and have grutched against me,

³⁰shall not enter into the land, upon which I have raised mine hand, that I should make you to dwell there, except Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, the son of Nun.

³¹Forsooth I shall lead in your little children, of which ye said that they should be preys, either ravens, to enemies, that they see the land which displeased you.

³²Forsooth your carrions shall lie in the wilderness;

³³your sons shall be walkers-about in the desert by forty years, and they shall bear your fornication, till the carrions of their fathers be wasted in desert,

³⁴by the number of forty days, in which ye beheld the land; a year shall be reckoned for a day, and by forty years ye shall receive your wickedness, or be punished for your grutching, and ye shall know my vengeance.

³⁵For as I spake, so I shall do to all this worst multitude, that rose together against me; it shall fail, and shall die in this wilderness.

³⁶Therefore all the men which Moses had sent to see the land, and which turned again, and made all the multitude to grutch against him, and depraved the land,

³⁷that it was evil, were dead, and smitten in the sight of the Lord.

³⁸Soothly Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, lived, of all the men, that went to see the land.

³⁹And Moses spake all these words to all the sons of Israel, and the people mourned greatly.

⁴⁰And, lo! they rose in the morrow-tide first, and they went up into the top of the hill, and said, We be ready to go up to the place, of which the Lord spake, for we have sinned.

⁴¹To whom Moses said, Why over-pass ye the word of the Lord, that shall not befall to you into prosperity?