You will die here in this wilderness.
So he gave them a solemn warning that he would make them die in the desert
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.
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.
The Lord became angry with the people and made them wander in the wilderness forty years until that whole generation that had displeased him was dead.
But even then God was not pleased with most of them, and so their dead bodies were scattered over the desert.
With whom was God angry for forty years? With the people who sinned, who fell down dead in the desert.