Bible Verses

The men sent by Moses to explore the land and who, on their return, had made the community grumble against him,

I, the Lord, have spoken. Indeed, this is what I will do to this wicked community that has conspired against me. In this wilderness, they shall be destroyed, and this is where they shall die.”

According to the number of days spent exploring the land—forty days, every day a year—for forty years, you shall bear the guilt of your sins, and you shall know what it is to oppose me.

and your sons will wander with their flocks for forty years in the desert, bearing the guilt of your faithlessness till the last of you lies dead in the desert.

Your corpses will fall in the desert,

But your children, whom you said would be part of the plunder, I will bring them and they will know the land that you have rejected.

You will not enter the land where I swore to settle you, except Caleb, son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, son of Nun.

All of you of twenty years or more, numbered in the census, who grumbled against me, your corpses will fall in the desert.

Say to them: As truly as I live, the Lord speaks; I will do to you what you have said in my hearing.

 “How long will this wicked community grumble against me?” I have heard the grumblings of the people of Israel against me.