31 You were worried that your own children would be captured. But I, the Lord, will let them enter the land you have rejected.
32 You will die here in the desert!
33 Your children will wander around in this desert forty years, suffering because of your sins, until all of you are dead.
34 I will cruelly punish you every day for the next forty years—one year for each day that the land was explored.
35 You sinful people who ganged up against me will die here in the desert.
36 Ten of the men sent to explore the land had brought back bad news and had made the people complain against the Lord.
37 So he sent a deadly disease that killed those men,