39. Your children, of whom you said that they should be led away captives, and your sons who know not this day the difference of good and evil, they shall go in: and to them I will give the land, and they shall possess it.
40. But return you and go into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.
41. And you answered me: We have sinned against the Lord: we will go up and fight, as the Lord our God hath commanded. And when you went ready armed unto the mountain,
42. The Lord said to me: Say to them: Go not up, and fight not, for I am not with you: lest you fall before your enemies.
43. I spoke, and you hearkened not: but resisting the commandment of the Lord, and swelling with pride, you went up into the mountain.
44. And the Amorrhite that dwelt in the mountains coming out, and meeting you, chased you, as bees do: and made slaughter of you from Seir as far as Horma.
45. And when you returned and wept before the Lord, he heard you not, neither would he yield to; your voice.
46. So you abode in Cadesbarne a long time.