Numbers 14
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Numbers 14:22-35

22none of the men who have seen my glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tested me these ten times and did not obey me,

23will ever see the land I swore to give their ancestors. None of those who have despised me will see it.

24But since my servant Caleb has a different spirit and has remained loyal to me, I will bring him into the land where he has gone, and his descendants will inherit it.

25Since the Amalekites and Canaanites are living in the lowlands, turn back tomorrow and head for the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea.”

26Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron:

27“How long must I endure this evil community that keeps complaining about me? I have heard the Israelites’ complaints that they make against me.

28Tell them: As I live — this is the Lord’s declaration — I will do to you exactly as I heard you say.

29Your corpses will fall in this wilderness — all of you who were registered in the census, the entire number of you twenty years old or more  — because you have complained about me.

30I swear that none of you will enter the land I promised to settle you in, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

31I will bring your children whom you said would become plunder into the land you rejected, and they will enjoy it.

32But as for you, your corpses will fall in this wilderness.

33Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years and bear the penalty for your acts of unfaithfulness until all your corpses lie scattered in the wilderness.

34You will bear the consequences of your iniquities forty years based on the number of the forty days that you scouted the land, a year for each day. You will know my displeasure.

35I, the Lord, have spoken. I swear that I will do this to the entire evil community that has conspired against me. They will come to an end in the wilderness, and there they will die.”

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