10 The anger of Adonai was aroused that day, and He swore an oath saying:
11 ‘The men who came out of Egypt, from 20 years old and upward, will not see the land I promised to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, for they have not followed after Me with a whole heart—
12 except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun, for they were wholehearted after Adonai.’
13 The anger of Adonai burned against Israel and He caused them to wander in the wilderness 40 years until all the generation doing that evil in Adonai’s sight was gone.
14 “Now look, here you stand in the place of your fathers as a brood of sinful men to add more to Adonai’s great wrath against Israel!
15 If you turn away from Him, He will repeat again leaving this people in the wilderness, you being the cause of this people’s destruction.”
16 Then they came up to him and said, “We will build sheepfolds for our livestock and cities for our children.