Numbers 14:13   (Read all of Numbers 14)

Moses said to the Lord, "Then the Egyptians will hear about it! By your power you brought these people up from among them.

Numbers 14:14   (Read all of Numbers 14)

And they will tell the inhabitants of this land about it. They have already heard that you, Lord, are with these people and that you, Lord, have been seen face to face, that your cloud stays over them, and that you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.

Numbers 14:15   (Read all of Numbers 14)

If you put all these people to death, leaving none alive, the nations who have heard this report about you will say,

Numbers 14:16   (Read all of Numbers 14)

'The Lord was not able to bring these people into the land he promised them on oath, so he slaughtered them in the wilderness.'

Numbers 14:17   (Read all of Numbers 14)

"Now may the Lord's strength be displayed, just as you have declared:

Numbers 14:18   (Read all of Numbers 14)

'The Lord is slow to anger, abounding in love and forgiving sin and rebellion. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.'

Numbers 14:19   (Read all of Numbers 14)

In accordance with your great love, forgive the sin of these people, just as you have pardoned them from the time they left Egypt until now."

Numbers 14:21   (Read all of Numbers 14)

Nevertheless, as surely as I live and as surely as the glory of the Lord fills the whole earth,

Numbers 14:22   (Read all of Numbers 14)

not one of those who saw my glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness but who disobeyed me and tested me ten times-

Numbers 14:23   (Read all of Numbers 14)

not one of them will ever see the land I promised on oath to their ancestors. No one who has treated me with contempt will ever see it.

Numbers 14:24   (Read all of Numbers 14)

But because my servant Caleb has a different spirit and follows me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he went to, and his descendants will inherit it.

Numbers 14:25   (Read all of Numbers 14)

Since the Amalekites and the Canaanites are living in the valleys, turn back tomorrow and set out toward the desert along the route to the Red Sea. "

Numbers 14:26   (Read all of Numbers 14)

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron:

Numbers 14:28   (Read all of Numbers 14)

So tell them, 'As surely as I live, declares the Lord, I will do to you the very thing I heard you say:

Numbers 14:30   (Read all of Numbers 14)

Not one of you will enter the land I swore with uplifted hand to make your home, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

Numbers 14:31   (Read all of Numbers 14)

As for your children that you said would be taken as plunder, I will bring them in to enjoy the land you have rejected.

Numbers 14:33   (Read all of Numbers 14)

Your children will be shepherds here for forty years, suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.

Numbers 14:34   (Read all of Numbers 14)

For forty years-one year for each of the forty days you explored the land-you will suffer for your sins and know what it is like to have me against you.'

Numbers 14:35   (Read all of Numbers 14)

I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will surely do these things to this whole wicked community, which has banded together against me. They will meet their end in this wilderness; here they will die."

Numbers 14:36   (Read all of Numbers 14)

So the men Moses had sent to explore the land, who returned and made the whole community grumble against him by spreading a bad report about it-

Numbers 14:37   (Read all of Numbers 14)

these men who were responsible for spreading the bad report about the land were struck down and died of a plague before the Lord.

Numbers 14:38   (Read all of Numbers 14)

Of the men who went to explore the land, only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh survived.

Numbers 14:40   (Read all of Numbers 14)

Early the next morning they set out for the highest point in the hill country, saying, "Now we are ready to go up to the land the Lord promised. Surely we have sinned!"

Numbers 14:41   (Read all of Numbers 14)

But Moses said, "Why are you disobeying the Lord's command? This will not succeed!