Numbers 14:32-42

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.

³⁹And Moses spoke all these words to all the children of Israel, and the people mourned exceedingly.

⁴⁰And behold rising up very early in the morning, they went up to the top of the mountain, and said: We are ready to go up to the place, of which the Lord hath spoken: for we have sinned.

⁴¹And Moses said to them: Why transgress you the word of the Lord, which shall not succeed prosperously with you?

⁴²Go not up, for the Lord is not with you: lest you fall before your enemies.