Numbers 14:28-35

The People Rebel

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. ³⁴In accordance with the number of days that you spied out the land, forty days, for every day you shall suffer the punishment for your guilt a year, that is, forty years, and you will know My opposition. ³⁵I, the Lord, have spoken, I certainly will do this to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. They shall be worn out in this wilderness, and there they shall die.’ ”