Numbers 14:24-43

²⁴But my servant Caleb, because there was another spirit in him, and he followed me, I will bring him into the land into which he entered, and his seed shall inherit it.

²⁵But Amalek and the Canaanite dwell in the valley: tomorrow turn and depart for the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.

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

²⁷How long shall I endure this wicked congregation? I have heard their murmurings against me, even the murmuring of the children of Israel, which they have murmured concerning you.

²⁸Say to them, As I live, saith the Lord: surely as ye spoke into my ears, so will I do to you.

²⁹Your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness; and all those of you that were reviewed, and those of you that were numbered from twenty years old and upward, all that murmured against me,

³⁰ye shall not enter into the land for which I stretched out my hand to establish you upon it; except only Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

³¹And your little ones, who ye said should be a prey, them will I bring into the land; and they shall inherit the land, which ye rejected.

³²And your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness.

³³And your sons shall be fed in the wilderness forty years, and they shall bear your fornication, until your carcasses be consumed in the wilderness.

³⁴According to the number of the days during which ye spied the land, forty days, a day for a year, ye shall bear your sins forty years, and ye shall know my fierce anger.

³⁵I the Lord have spoken, Surely will I do thus to this evil congregation that has risen up together against me: in this wilderness they shall be utterly consumed, and there they shall die.

³⁶And the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, and who came and murmured against it to the assembly so as to bring out evil words concerning the land—

³⁷the men that spoke evil reports against the land, even died of the plague before the Lord.

³⁸And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh still lived of those men that went to spy out the land.

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

⁴⁰And they rose early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, Behold, we that are here will go up to the place of which the Lord has spoken, because we have sinned.

⁴¹And Moses said, Why do ye transgress the word of the Lord? ye shall not prosper.

⁴²Go not up, for the Lord is not with you; so shall ye fall before the face of your enemies.

⁴³For Amalek and the Canaanite are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword; because ye have disobeyed the Lord and turned aside, and the Lord will not be among you.