³³ And your children ^(A)shall be shepherds in the wilderness ^(B)forty years and shall ^(C)suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness. ^34 (D)According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, ^(E)forty days, a year for each day, you shall bear your iniquity forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.’ ^35 (F)I, the Lord, have spoken. Surely this will I do to all ^(G)this wicked congregation who are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall come to a full end, and there they shall die.”

⁸ Your fathers did this, ^(A)when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land. ⁹ For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the people of Israel from going into the land that the Lord had given them. ^10 (B)And the Lord's anger was kindled on that day, and he swore, saying, ¹¹ ‘Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, ^(C)from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land that I swore to give ^(D)to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, because they have not wholly followed me, ¹² none except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the ^(E)Kenizzite and Joshua the son of Nun, for ^(F)they have wholly followed the Lord.’ ¹³ And the Lord's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them ^(G)wander in the wilderness forty years, until ^(H)all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the Lord was gone. ¹⁴ And behold, you have risen in your fathers' place, a brood of sinful men, to increase still more the fierce anger of the Lord against Israel!