For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and will perform it, says the Lord GOD.
And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed those who were in the farthest parts of the camp.
And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said to them, Would to God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would to God we had died in this wilderness!
Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:
And the time in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we had come over the brook Zered, was thirty eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were destroyed out from among the host, as the LORD swore to them.