At that time the anger of the Lord flared up, and he swore:
And the Lord said to Moses: How long will this people spurn me? How long will they not trust me, despite all the signs I have performed among them?
Nevertheless in the wilderness I swore to them that I would not bring them into the land I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, a jewel among all the lands.
Therefore I swore in my anger: “They shall never enter my rest.”
Here in the wilderness your dead bodies shall fall. Of all your men of twenty years or more, enrolled in your registration, who grumbled against me,
not one shall see the land which I promised on oath to their ancestors. None of those who have spurned me shall see it.
Yet, by my life and the Lord’s glory that fills the whole earth,