28. Where can we go now? The men we sent have frightened us with their report. They said, “The people there are bigger and taller than we are. The cities are big and have walls as high as the sky. And we saw giants there!”’
29. “So I said to you, ‘Don’t be upset or afraid of those people.
30. The Lord your God is in front, leading you. He will fight for you just as he did in Egypt.
31. You saw what happened in the desert. You saw how the Lord your God carried you like a man carries his child. He brought you safely all the way to this place.’
32. “But you didn’t trust the Lord your God then either.
33. But he was always in front, going ahead to find a place for you to camp. At night, he was in the fire that showed you where to go. And during the day, he was in the cloud.
34. “The Lord heard what you said, and he was angry. He made a vow. He said,
35. ‘Not one of you evil people who are alive now will go into the good land that I promised to your ancestors.
36. Only Caleb son of Jephunneh will see that land. I will give Caleb the land he walked on, and I will give that land to his descendants, because he did all that I, the Lord, commanded.’
37. “The Lord was also angry with me because of you. He said to me, ‘Moses, you cannot enter the land, either.