34. I will cruelly punish you every day for the next forty years—one year for each day that the land was explored.
35. You sinful people who ganged up against me will die here in the desert.
36. Ten of the men sent to explore the land had brought back bad news and had made the people complain against the Lord.
37. So he sent a deadly disease that killed those men,
38. but he let Joshua and Caleb live.
39. The people of Israel were very sad after Moses gave them the Lord's message.