35. I the Lord have spoken. I will do this to the entire wicked community who gathered against me. They will die in this desert. There they’ll meet their end.
36. The men whom Moses sent out to explore the land had returned and caused the entire community to complain against him by starting a rumor about the land.
37. These men died by a plague in the Lord’s presence on account of their false rumor.
38. But Joshua, Nun’s son, and Caleb, Jephunneh’s son, survived from those men who went to explore the land.
39. Moses spoke these words to all the Israelites, and the people mourned bitterly.