24. But my servant Caleb has a different attitude than the others have. He has remained loyal to me, so I will bring him into the land he explored. His descendants will possess their full share of that land.
25. Now turn around, and don’t go on toward the land where the Amalekites and Canaanites live. Tomorrow you must set out for the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea.”
26. Then the lord said to Moses and Aaron,
27. “How long must I put up with this wicked community and its complaints about me? Yes, I have heard the complaints the Israelites are making against me.
28. Now tell them this: ‘As surely as I live, declares the lord, I will do to you the very things I heard you say.
29. You will all drop dead in this wilderness! Because you complained against me, every one of you who is twenty years old or older and was included in the registration will die.
30. You will not enter and occupy the land I swore to give you. The only exceptions will be Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.