Numbers 14:26-45 - The Lord Punishes The Israelites

26 And Jehovah will speak to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 27 How long for this evil assembly, that they are murmuring against me? the murmurings of the sons of Israel which they are murmuring against me, I heard. 28 Say to them, I live, says Jehovah, if not as ye spake in mine ears, so will I do to you: 29 In this desert shall your carcasses fall; and all of you being reviewed according to all your number, from the son of twenty years and above, who murmured against me. 30 If ye shall come in to the land which I lifted up my hand for you to dwell in it, except Caleb, son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, son of Nun. 31 And your little ones which ye said shall be for a prey, and I brought them in, and they shall know the land which ye rejected 32 And you, your carcasses shall fall in this desert 33 And your sons shall be fed in the desert forty years, and bear your fornications till your carcasses be finished in the desert 34 According to the number of days which ye searched out the land, forty days, a day a year, a day for a year, shall ye your iniquities; forty years, and ye knew my withdrawal. 35 I Jehovah spake, if not, I will do this to all this evil assembly setting up against me: in this desert shall they be finished, and there shall they die.

36 And the men whom Moses sent to search out the land, and they will turn back and will murmur against him to all the assembly, to bring forth slander upon the land. 37 And the men bringing forth evil slander of the land shall die by the blow before Jehovah. 38 And Joshua, son of Nun, and Caleb, son of Jephunneh, lived, from those men going to search out the land.

39 And Moses will speak these words to all the sons of Israel, and the people will mourn greatly. 40 And they will rise early in the morning, and will go up to the head of the mountain, saying, Behold us, and we will go up to the place which Jehovah said: for we sinned.

41 And Moses will say, Wherefore this you are passing by the mouth of Jehovah? And it shall not prosper. 42 Ye shall not go up, for Jehovah is not in the midst of you; and shall ye not be struck before your enemies? 43 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye fell by the sword: for ye turned back from after Jehovah, and Jehovah will not be with you.

44 And they will act proudly to go up to the head of the mountain: mid the ark of the covenant of Jehovah and Moses departed not out of the midst of the camp. 45 And Amalek came down, and the Canaanite, he dwelling in the mountain, and he will smite them, and will beat them, even to Hormah.