34 According to the number of the forty days in which you have searched the land, you will pay the penalty for your sins for forty years, year by day, that you may know what it is to be forsaken by me.

35 I, the Lord, say, and so will I do with all this wicked company that has rebelled against me: in this wilderness they shall all perish and die.

36 And those whom Moses sent to inspect the land, and who, having returned, stirred up all this congregation against him, spreading evil fame about the land,

37 And these who spread evil fame concerning the land, died, being smitten before the Lord;

38 Only Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, remained alive of those men who went out to inspect the land.

39 And Moses spake these words before all the children of Israel, and the people were greatly grieved.

40 And having risen up early in the morning, they went to the top of the mountain, saying, 'Behold, we will go to the place of which the Lord spoke, for we have sinned.'

41 Moses said, 'Why do you transgress the command of the Lord?' it will be unsuccessful;

42 Do not go, for the Lord is not among you, lest your enemies smite you.

43 for the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you will fall by the sword, because you have departed from the Lord, and the Lord will not be with you.

44 But they dared to go up to the top of the mountain; but the ark of the covenant of the Lord and Moses did not leave the camp.

45 And the Amalekites, and the Canaanites, who dwelt in that mountain, came down, and defeated them, and drove them as far as Hormah, and returned to the camp.

Chapter 15

1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,