Numbers 32:6-15

New American Standard Bible

⁶ But Moses said to the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben, “Should your brothers go to war while you remain here? ^7 (A)And why are you discouraging the ^[a]sons of Israel from crossing over into the land which the Lord has given them? ⁸ This is what your fathers did when I sent them from ^(B)Kadesh-barnea to see the land. ⁹ For when they went up to ^(C)the ^[b]Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the ^[c]sons of Israel so that they did not go into the land which the Lord had given them. ¹⁰ So ^(D)the Lord’s anger burned on that day, and He swore, saying, ¹¹ ‘^(E)None of the men who came up from Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; for they did not follow Me fully, ¹² except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua the son of Nun; ^(F)for they have followed the Lord fully.’ ^13 (G)So the Lord’s anger burned against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness for forty years, until the entire generation of those who had done evil in the sight of the Lord came to an end. ¹⁴ Now behold, you have risen up in your fathers’ place, born of sinful men, to add still more to the burning ^(H)anger of the Lord against Israel. ¹⁵ For if you ^(I)turn away from following Him, He will once more leave them in the wilderness, and you will destroy all these people.”