7. Why would you destroy the Israelites’ resolve to cross into the land that the Lord gave them?
8. Your ancestors did this, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to inspect the land.
9. They went up to the Cluster ravine, saw the land, and destroyed the Israelites’ resolve to enter the land that the Lord had given them.
10. The Lord became angry on that day and promised,
11. ‘None of the persons that went up from Egypt, those 20 years old and above, will see the fertile ground that I promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, because they didn’t remain true to me,
12. except Caleb, Jephunneh the Kenizzite’s son, and Joshua, Nun’s son, because they remained true to the Lord.’
13. The Lord became angry with the Israelites and made them wander in the desert for forty years until the entire generation had died, which had done evil in the Lord’s eyes.