Numbers 14:26-45

26The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, 27“How long shall I bear with this evil congregation who are 1grumbling against Me? I have heard the complaints of the sons of Israel, which they are 2making against Me. 28Say to them, ‘3As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘just as 4you have spoken in My hearing, so I will surely do to you; 295your corpses will fall in this wilderness, even all 6your 7numbered men, according to your complete number from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against Me. 30Surely you shall not come into the land in which I 8swore to settle you, 9except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun. 3110Your children, however, whom you said would become a prey--I will bring them in, and they will know the land which you have rejected. 3211But as for you, your corpses will fall in this wilderness. 33Your sons shall be shepherds for 12forty years in the wilderness, and they will 13suffer for your 14unfaithfulness, until your corpses 15lie in the wilderness. 34According to the 16number of days which you spied out the land, forty days, for every day you shall bear your 17guilt a year, even forty years, and you will know My opposition. 3518I, the Lord, have spoken, surely this I will do to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. In this wilderness they shall be destroyed, and there they will die.’”

3619As for the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land and who returned and made all the congregation grumble against him by bringing out a bad report concerning the land, 37even 20those men who brought out the very bad report of the land died by a 21plague before the Lord. 38But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive out of those men who went to spy out the land.

39When Moses spoke 22these words to all the sons of Israel, 23the people mourned greatly. 40In the morning, however, they rose up early and went up to the 24ridge of the hill country, saying, “25Here we are; 26we have indeed sinned, but we will go up to the place which the Lord has promised.” 41But Moses said, “27Why then are you transgressing the 28commandment of the Lord, when it will not succeed? 4229Do not go up, or you will be struck down before your enemies, for the Lord is not among you. 43For the Amalekites and the Canaanites will be there in front of you, and you will fall by the sword, inasmuch as you have turned back from following the Lord. And the Lord will not be with you.” 44But they went up heedlessly to the 30ridge of the hill country; neither 31the ark of the covenant of the Lord nor Moses left the camp. 45Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country came down, and struck them and beat them down as far as 32Hormah.