27. “How long shall this evil congregation have this grumbling against Me? I have heard the grumblings which the children of Yisra’ĕl are grumbling against Me.
28. “Say to them, ‘As I live,’ declares יהוה, ‘as you have spoken in My hearing, so I do to you:
29. ‘The carcasses of you who have grumbled against Me are going to fall in this wilderness, all of you who were registered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above.
30. ‘None of you except Kalĕḇ son of Yephunneh, and Yehoshua son of Nun, shall enter the land which I swore I would make you dwell in.
31. ‘But your little ones, whom you said would become a prey, I shall bring in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.
32. ‘But as for you, your carcasses are going to fall in this wilderness.
33. ‘And your sons shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whorings, until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness.
34. ‘According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days – a day for a year, a day for a year – you are to bear your crookednesses forty years, and you shall know My breaking off.
35. ‘I am יהוה, I have spoken, I shall do this to all this evil congregation who are meeting against Me: In this wilderness they are consumed, and there they die.’ ”
36. And the men whom Mosheh sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation grumble against him by bringing an evil report of the land,
37. even those men who brought the evil report about the land, died by the plague before יהוה.
38. Of those men who went to spy out the land, only Yehoshua son of Nun, and Kalĕḇ son of Yephunneh remained alive.
39. And when Mosheh spoke these words to all the children of Yisra’ĕl, the people mourned greatly.