Deuteronomy 1:19-35

19And we departed from Horeb and went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw, on the way to the mountain of the Amorites, as Jehovah our 1God had commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.

20And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which Jehovah our 2God giveth us.

21Behold, Jehovah thy 3God hath set the land before thee: go up, take possession, as Jehovah the 4God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be dismayed.

22And ye came near to me all of you, and said, We will send men before us, who shall examine the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up, and of the cities to which we shall come.

23And the matter was good in mine eyes; and I took twelve men of you, one man for a tribe.

24And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came to the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out.

25And they took of the fruit of the land in their hand, and brought it down unto us, and brought us answer, and said, The land is good that Jehovah our 5God hath given us.

26But ye would not go up, and rebelled against the word of Jehovah your 6God;

27and ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because Jehovah hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

28Whither shall we go up? Our brethren have made our hearts melt, saying, [They are] a people greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.

29And I said unto you, Be not afraid, neither fear them;

30Jehovah your 7God who goeth before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;

31and in the wilderness where thou hast seen that Jehovah thy 8God bore thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came to this place.

32But In this thing ye did not believe Jehovah your 9God,

33who went in the way before you, to search you out a place for your encamping, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in the cloud by day.

34And Jehovah heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and swore, saying,

35None among these men, this evil generation, shall in any wise see that good land, which I swore to give unto your fathers!