Deuteronomy 1:40-42

Lexham English Bible

⁴⁰ But you turn and set out in the direction of the wilderness by way of the Red Sea.’^[a]

⁴¹ “You replied and said to me, ‘We have sinned against Yahweh, and now we will go up and fight according to all that Yahweh our God commanded us’; and so each man fastened on his battle gear,^[b] and you regarded it as easy to go up into the hill country. ⁴² So Yahweh said to me, ‘Say to them, “You shall not go up, and you shall not fight because I am not in your midst; you will be defeated before^[c] your enemies.”’