Numbers 14:32-42

³²And as to you, your carcases shall fall in this wilderness.

³³And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.

³⁴After the number of the days in which ye have searched out the land, forty days, each day for a year shall ye bear your iniquities forty years, and ye shall know mine estrangement from you.

³⁵I Jehovah have spoken; I will surely do it unto all this evil assembly which have gathered together against me! in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.

³⁶And the men whom Moses had sent to search out the land, who returned, and made the whole assembly to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report upon the land,

³⁷even those men who had brought up an evil report upon the land, died by a plague before Jehovah.

³⁸But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, lived still of the men that had gone to search out the land.

³⁹And Moses told all these sayings to all the children of Israel; then the people mourned greatly.

⁴⁰And they rose up early in the morning, and went up to the hill-top, saying, Here are we, and we will go up to the place of which Jehovah has spoken; for we have sinned.

⁴¹And Moses said, Why now do ye transgress the commandment of Jehovah? but it shall not prosper!

⁴²Go not up, for Jehovah is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies;