Numbers 14:26-38

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.