Numbers 32:6-15 - Moses' Response

⁶ Moses asked the tribes of Gad and Reuben: Are you going to stay here while the rest of the Israelites go to war? ⁷ That might discourage them from entering the land Jehovah has given them. ⁸ That is what your ancestors did when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to look at the land. ⁹ They went as far as the Eshcol Valley. They saw the land. But then they discouraged the rest of the Israelites from entering the land Jehovah had given them. ¹⁰ That day Jehovah became angry and swore this oath: ¹¹ None of the people twenty years old or older, who came from Egypt, will see the land I promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob with an oath. This is because they did not wholeheartedly follow me. ¹² Only Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun will get to see the land. This is because they wholeheartedly followed Jehovah. ¹³ Jehovah's anger blazed against the Israelites. Therefore he made them wander in the desert for forty years until the whole generation of those who had done evil in Jehovah's presence was gone. ¹⁴ You are just like your parents! You are a bunch of sinners trying to make Jehovah angry at Israel again. ¹⁵ If you turn away from him he will abandon all these people in the desert. You would be responsible for their destruction.