Numbers 14:28-41

²⁸Say to them, As I live, saith the Lord, even as ye have spoken before Me, so will I do to you.

²⁹In this wilderness shall your carcases fall, and all who are numbered of you, of all your numbers, from one of twenty years and upward who have murmured against me.

³⁰If you shall come into the land in which I covenanted in My Word to cause you to dwell, except Kaleb bar Jephuneh, and Jehoshua bar Nun.

³¹But your children, of whom you said they were for a prey, will I bring in, and they shall know the land which you have abhorred.

³²But your carcases shall fall in this wilderness;

³³And your children shall go about in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your iniquities until your carcases be laid in the wilderness.

³⁴According to the number of the days in which you explored the land, forty days, a day for a year, a day for a year, you shall receive for your sins, even forty years, and you shall know (the consequence of) your murmuring against me.

³⁵I, the Lord, have made the decree in My Word, if I will not do unto all this evil congregation who have gathered together against Me; in this wilderness shall they find their end, and here shall they die.

³⁶And the men whom Mosheh sent to search the land, and who returned to make all the congregation murmur against him, by bringing forth an evil name upon the land;

³⁷Those men who brought out the evil name upon the land died by the plague before the Lord.

³⁸But Jehoshua bar Nun and Kaleb bar Jephuneh lived, of those men who went to explore the land.

³⁹And Mosheh told these words to all the children of Israel, and the people bewailed greatly.

⁴⁰And they arose in the morning to go up to the top of the mountain, saying: Behold, we will go up to the place of which the Lord hath spoken; for we have sinned.

⁴¹But Mosheh said, Wherefore do you transgress against the decree of the Word of the Lord? But it will not prosper.