Numbers 14:26-39

²⁶The Lord told Moses and Aaron,

²⁷“How much longer are these wicked people going to criticize me? I've heard what they're saying, making complaints against me.

²⁸Go and tell them, ‘As I live, declares the Lord, I'll do just what I heard you say you wanted, believe me!

²⁹All of you will die in this desert, everyone who was registered in the census that counted those aged twenty or over, because you made complaints against me.

³⁰Absolutely none of you will enter the country I promised to give you to live in, except for Caleb, son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, son of Nun.

³¹However, I will take your children—those you said would be taken away as plunder—into the country you rejected, and they will appreciate it.

³²But you—you are all going to die in this desert.

³³Your children will wander in the desert for forty years, suffering because of your lack of trust until all your bodies lie buried in the desert.

³⁴Just as you explored the country for forty days, so shall your punishment for your sins be forty years, a year for every day, and you will see what happens when I oppose you.

³⁵I, the Lord, have spoken! Just see if I won't do this to all these wicked Israelites who have got together to oppose me! They will end their lives in the desert—they will die there.’”

³⁶The men that Moses had sent to explore the country—those who came back and because they gave a bad report they made all the Israelites complain against the Lord—

³⁷those men who gave the bad report died before the Lord from plague.

³⁸The only ones who lived were Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh of those who went to explore the country.

³⁹When Moses told the Israelites what the Lord had said they were very, very sad.