Numbers 14:27-33

The People Rebel

²⁷“How long shall I put up with this evil congregation who are grumbling against Me? I have heard the complaints of the sons of Israel which they are voicing against Me. ²⁸Say to them, ‘As I live,’ declares the Lord, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you; ²⁹your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness, all your numbered men according to your complete number from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against Me. ³⁰By no means will you come into the land where I swore to settle you, except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun. ³¹Your children, however, whom you said would become plunder—I will bring them in, and they will know the land which you have rejected. ³²But as for you, your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness. ³³Also, your sons will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your bodies perish in the wilderness.