Deuteronomy 1:40-42

Good News Translation

⁴⁰ But as for you people, turn around and go back into the desert on the road to the Gulf of Aqaba.’

⁴¹ “You replied, ‘Moses, we have sinned against the Lord. But now we will attack, just as the Lord our God commanded us.’ Then each one of you got ready to fight, thinking it would be easy to invade the hill country.

⁴² “But the Lord said to me, ‘Warn them not to attack, for I will not be with them, and their enemies will defeat them.’