29. You will die in this desert. Every one of you who is twenty years old or older and who was counted with the people—all of you who complained against me—will die.
30. Not one of you will enter the land where I promised you would live; only Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun will go in.
31. You said that your children would be taken away, but I will bring them into the land to enjoy what you refused.
32. As for you, you will die in this desert.
33. Your children will be shepherds here for forty years. Because you were not loyal, they will suffer until you lie dead in the desert.
34. For forty years you will suffer for your sins—a year for each of the forty days you explored the land. You will know me as your enemy.’
35. I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will certainly do these things to all these evil people who have come together against me. So they will all die here in this desert.”
36. The men Moses had sent to explore the land had returned and spread complaints among all the people. They had given a bad report about the land.
37. The men who gave a very bad report died; the Lord killed them with a terrible sickness.