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Numbers 14:23-31 English Standard Version (ESV)

23. shall see the land that I swore to give to their fathers. And none of those who despised me shall see it.

24. But my servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it.

25. Now, since the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valleys, turn tomorrow and set out for the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.”

26. And the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

27. “How long shall this wicked congregation grumble against me? I have heard the grumblings of the people of Israel, which they grumble against me.

28. Say to them, ‘As I live, declares the Lord, what you have said in my hearing I will do to you:

29. your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and of all your number, listed in the census from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against me,

30. not one shall come into the land where I swore that I would make you dwell, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.

31. But your little ones, who you said would become a prey, I will bring in, and they shall know the land that you have rejected.