Numbers 14:26-39

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.