Numbers 32:6-15 - Moses' Response

⁶ Then said Moses unto the sons of Gad and unto the sons of Reuben, - Shall, your brethren, go into the war, and ye, settle down here? ⁷ Wherefore, then, should ye dissuade the heart of the sons of Israel, from passing over into the land which Yahweh hath given to them? ⁸ Thus, did your fathers, - when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea, to view the land, ⁹ and they went up as far as the ravine of Eschol, and viewed the land, and then dissuaded the heart of the sons of Israel from entering into the land, which Yahweh had given them. ¹⁰ Then was the anger of Yahweh kindled on that day, - and he aware, saying: ¹¹ Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt from twenty years old and upwards, shall see the soil, which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac and unto Jacob, because they have not followed after me fully; ¹² save Caleb son of Jephunneh, the Kenezite, and Joshua, son of Nun, - for they followed after Yahweh, fully. ¹³ So the anger of Yahweh kindled upon Israel, and he made them wander in the desert, forty years, - until all the generation who had done the evil in the eyes of Yahweh, had wasted away! ¹⁴ Lo! therefore, ye have arisen in the room of your fathers, brood of sinful men, - to heap up yet more upon the heat of the anger of Yahweh, towards Israel. ¹⁵ If ye do turn away from following him, then will he yet again leave them behind in the desert, - so shall ye bring destruction upon all this people.