If you turn away from him he will abandon all these people in the desert. You would be responsible for their destruction.

They also complained to Moses: Was there not enough room in Egypt to bury us? Is that why you brought us out here to die in the desert? Why did you bring us out of Egypt?

The Israelites said to them: If only Jehovah had allowed us to die in Egypt! There we sat by our pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted! You brought us out into this desert to let us all starve to death!

Did you bring Jehovah's assembly into this desert just to have us all die and our animals?

and criticized God and Moses. They said: Why did you make us leave Egypt only to let us die in the desert? There is no bread or water, and we cannot stand this awful food!

The land from which you brought us may say: Jehovah was not able to bring them into the land he promised them and because he hated them he has brought them out to slay them in the desert wilderness.

Did we not say in Egypt: Leave us alone that we may serve the Egyptians? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert.

They complained to Moses and Aaron: If only we had died in Egypt or in this desert!

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!'

Jehovah said: They must all die in the desert wilderness. The only ones left were Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

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.

But your bodies will drop dead in this desert.

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.

Raising his hand, he swore that he would kill them in the wilderness,

Jehovah was not able to bring these people into the land he promised them, so he slaughtered them in the desert.

Our father died in the desert. He was not a part of Korah's followers who joined forces against Jehovah. He died for his own sin and left no sons.

This is why Joshua circumcised: All the men who came out of Egypt including all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt.

God was not pleased with most of them. And their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.

With whom was he disgusted for forty years? He was disgusted and angry with those who sinned and died in the desert.

But I had compassion on them. I did not destroy them or completely wipe them out in the desert.