Num 14:11 ¶ The LORD said to Moses, "How long will this people spurn Me? And how long will they not believe in Me, despite all the signs which I have performed in their midst?
Num 14:12 "I will smite them with pestilence and dispossess them, and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they."
Num 14:13 ¶ But Moses said to the LORD, "Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your strength You brought up this people from their midst,
Num 14:14 and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that You, O LORD, are in the midst of this people, for You, O LORD, are seen eye to eye, while Your cloud stands over them; and You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.
Num 14:15 "Now if You slay this people as one man, then the nations who have heard of Your fame will say,
Num 14:16 'Because the LORD could not bring this people into the land which He promised them by oath, therefore He slaughtered them in the wilderness.'
Num 14:18 'The LORD is slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generations.'
Num 14:19 "Pardon, I pray, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of Your lovingkindness, just as You also have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now."
Num 14:20 ¶ So the LORD said, "I have pardoned them according to your word;
Num 14:21 but indeed, as I live, all the earth will be filled with the glory of the LORD.
Num 14:22 "Surely all the men who have seen My glory and My signs which I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have put Me to the test these ten times and have not listened to My voice,
Num 14:23 shall by no means see the land which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who spurned Me see it.
Num 14:24 "But My servant Caleb, because he has had a different spirit and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land which he entered, and his descendants shall take possession of it.
Num 14:25 "Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites live in the valleys; turn tomorrow and set out to the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea."
Num 14:26 ¶ The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
Num 14:27 "How long shall I bear with this evil congregation who are grumbling against Me? I have heard the complaints of the sons of Israel, which they are making against Me.
Num 14:29 your corpses will fall in this wilderness, even all your numbered men, according to your complete number from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against Me.
Num 14:30 'Surely you shall not come into the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.
Num 14:31 'Your children, however, whom you said would become a prey--I will bring them in, and they will know the land which you have rejected.
Num 14:32 'But as for you, your corpses will fall in this wilderness.