31. But I will bring in your little ones, whom you said would become victims of war, and they will enjoy the land that you have despised.
32. But as for you, your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness,
33. and your children will wander in the wilderness forty years and suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your dead bodies lie finished in the wilderness.
34. According to the number of the days you have investigated this land, forty days – one day for a year – you will suffer for your iniquities, forty years, and you will know what it means to thwart me.
35. I, the Lord, have said, “I will surely do so to all this evil congregation that has gathered together against me. In this wilderness they will be finished, and there they will die!”’”
36. The men whom Moses sent to investigate the land, who returned and made the whole community murmur against him by producing an evil report about the land,
37. those men who produced the evil report about the land, died by the plague before the Lord.
38. But Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among the men who went to investigate the land, lived.