²⁶ And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

²⁷ How long will this evil congregation murmur against Me? I have heard the complaints the Israelites murmur against Me.

²⁸ Tell them, As I live, says the Lord, what you have said in My hearing I will do to you:

²⁹ Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness—of all who were numbered of you, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against Me,^(A)

³⁰ Surely none shall come into the land in which I swore to make you dwell, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

³¹ But your little ones whom you said would be a prey, them will I bring in and they shall know the land which you have despised and rejected.

³² But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.

³³ And your children shall be wanderers and shepherds in the wilderness for forty years and shall suffer for your whoredoms (your infidelity to your espoused God), until your corpses are consumed in the wilderness.

³⁴ After the number of the days in which you spied out the land [of Canaan], even forty days, for each day a year shall you bear and suffer for your iniquities, even for forty years, and you shall know My displeasure [the revoking of My promise and My estrangement].

³⁵ I the Lord have spoken; surely this will I do to all this evil congregation who is gathered together against Me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed [by war, disease, plagues], and here they shall die.^(B)