Now give them this answer: 'I swear that as surely as I live, I will do to you just what you have asked. I, the LORD, have spoken.

You will die and your corpses will be scattered across this wilderness. Because you have complained against me, none of you over twenty years of age will enter that land.

"Take a census by families of the whole community of Israel, of all men twenty years old or older who are fit for military service."

There was not even one man left among those whom Moses and Aaron had listed in the first census in the Sinai Desert.

The LORD had said that all of them would die in the wilderness, and except for Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun they all did.

'Not one of you from this evil generation will enter the fertile land that I promised to give your ancestors.

This was thirty-eight years after we had left Kadesh Barnea. All the fighting men of that generation had died, as the LORD had said they would.

The LORD kept on opposing them until he had destroyed them all.

But because my servant Caleb has a different attitude and has remained loyal to me, I will bring him into the land which he explored, and his descendants will possess the land

I promised to let you live there, but not one of you will, except Caleb and Joshua.

The men who went with me, however, made our people afraid. But I faithfully obeyed the LORD my God.

Because I did, Moses promised me that my children and I would certainly receive as our possession the land which I walked over.