27 “How long must I endure this evil community that keeps complaining about Me? I have heard the Israelites’ complaints that they make against Me.
28 Tell them: As surely as I live,” this is the Lord’s declaration, “I will do to you exactly as I heard you say.
29 Your corpses will fall in this wilderness — all of you who were registered in the census, the entire number of you 20 years old or more — because you have complained about Me.
30 I swear that none of you will enter the land I promised to settle you in, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
31 I will bring your children whom you said would become plunder into the land you rejected, and they will enjoy it.
32 But as for you, your corpses will fall in this wilderness.
33 Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for 40 years and bear the penalty for your acts of unfaithfulness until all your corpses lie scattered in the wilderness.