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.
40. And they rose up early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, “See, we have indeed sinned, but we shall go up to the place which יהוה had spoken of!”
41. But Mosheh said, “Why do you now transgress the command of יהוה, since it does not prosper?
42. “Do not go up, lest you be smitten by your enemies, for יהוה is not in your midst.