Deuteronomy 1:39-41

English Standard Version

³⁹ And as for ^(A)your little ones, who you said would become a prey, and your children, who today ^(B)have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there. And to them I will give it, and they shall possess it. ⁴⁰ But as for you, ^(C)turn, and journey into the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea.’

⁴¹ “Then you answered me, ^(D)‘We have sinned against the Lord. We ourselves will go up and fight, just as the Lord our God commanded us.’ And every one of you fastened on his weapons of war and thought it easy to go up into the hill country.