27. You set to murmuring in your tents, “Out of hatred for us the Lord has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the power of the Amorites and destroy us.
28. What shall we meet with up there? Our men have made our hearts melt by saying, ‘The people are bigger and taller than we, and their cities are large and fortified to the sky; besides, we saw the Anakim there.’”
29. But I said to you, “Have no dread or fear of them.
30. The Lord, your God, who goes before you, is the one who will fight for you, just as he acted with you before your very eyes in Egypt,
31. as well as in the wilderness, where you saw how the Lord, your God, carried you, as one carries his own child, all along your journey until you arrived at this place.”
32. Despite this, you would not trust the Lord, your God,
33. who journeys before you to find you a place to camp—by night in the fire, and by day in the cloud, to show you the way to go.
34. When the Lord heard your words, he was angry, and took an oath:
35. Not a single one of this evil generation shall look upon the good land I swore to give to your ancestors,
36. except Caleb, son of Jephunneh. He shall see it, for to him and to his descendants I will give the land he trod upon, because he has fully followed the Lord.
37. The Lord was angered against me also on your account, and said, You shall not enter there either,
38. but Joshua, son of Nun, your attendant, shall enter. Encourage him, for he is the one who is to give Israel its possession.