Numbers 14:20-35 - God Promises Judgment
20 Jehovah said: I forgive them, as you have asked. 21 But as I live and as the glory of Jehovah fills the whole earth, I solemnly swear that 22 none of the people who saw my glory and the miraculous signs I did in Egypt and in the desert will see the land I promised their ancestors. They have tested me now ten times and refused to obey me. 23 None of those who treat me with contempt will see it! 24 My servant Caleb has a different attitude and has wholeheartedly followed me, I will bring him to the land he already explored. His descendants will possess it. 25 The Amalekites and Canaanites are living in the valleys. Tomorrow you must turn around, go back into the desert. Follow the road that goes to the Red Sea.
26 Then Jehovah said to Moses and Aaron: 27 How long must I put up with this wicked congregation that keeps complaining about me? I have heard the complaints the Israelites are making about me. 28 Therefore tell them: 'As I live, declares Jehovah, I solemnly swear I will do everything to you that you said I would do. 29 Your bodies will drop dead in this desert. All of you who are at least twenty years old, who were registered and listed, and who complained about me will die. 30 I raised my hand and swore an oath to give you this land to live in. But none of you will enter it except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun. 31 You said your children would be taken as prisoners of war. Instead, I will bring them into the land you rejected, and they will enjoy it. 32 But your bodies will drop dead in this desert. 33 Your children will be shepherds in the desert for forty years. They will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies dead in the desert. 34 You explored the land for forty days. So for forty years, one year for each day, you will suffer for your sins and know what it means for me to be against you.' 35 I, Jehovah, have spoken. I swear I will do these things to all the people in this whole wicked congregation. For they have joined forces against me. They will meet their end in this desert. Here they will die!'