34. According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, for each day you shall bear your guilt one year, namely forty years, and you shall know My rejection.
35. I the Lord have spoken this. I will surely do so to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.’ ”
36. Now the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation complain against him by bringing a bad report of the land,
37. those very men who brought the evil report about the land, died by the plague before the Lord.
38. But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive, of the men who went to spy out the land.
39. Then Moses told these words to all the children of Israel, and the people mourned greatly.