Numbers 14:34-45 ▼

34 By the number of the days in which you? spied out the land, forty days—a day for the year, a day for the year—you? shall bear your? guilt forty years, and you? shall know My rejection.

35 I, YHWH, have spoken. Surely I will do this to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.”

36 And the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, and who returned and made complain all the congregation against him by bringing a bad report of the land—

37 those very men who brought an evil report about the land died by the plague before the face of YHWH.

38 And Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh remained alive of those men who went to spy out the land.

39 And Moses told these words to all the sons of Israel, and the people mourned greatly.

40 And they rose early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, “Here we are, and we will go up to the place that YHWH has promised. For we have sinned.”

41 And Moses said, “Why is this—you? are passing over the mouth of YHWH? For that will not succeed.

42 Do not go up, for YHWH is not among you?, lest you? be struck down before the face of your? enemies.

43 For the Amalekite and the Canaanite are there before you?, and you? shall fall by the sword, for upon thus you? have turned away from YHWH, and YHWH will not be with you?.”

44 And they presumed to go up unto the top of the hill; and neither the ark of the covenant of YHWH, nor Moses, departed from the midst of the camp.

45 And the Amalekite and the Canaanite who dwelt in that mountain came down and attacked them, and drove them back as far as Hormah.