30 The LORD your God is going before you; He will fight for you, as he did with you in Egypt, before your eyes;

31 And in this wilderness, where, as thou hast seen, the LORD thy God hath borne thee, as a man beareth his son, all the way which ye traversed before thy coming into this place.

32 Yet even so you did not believe the Lord your God,

33 Who went before you in the way, to seek for you a place to stop, by night in the fire, to show you the way to go, and by day in the cloud.

34 And the Lord [God] heard your words, and was angry, and swore, saying,

35 None of these people of this wicked generation shall see the good land which I swore to give to your fathers.

36 Only Caleb the son of Jephunneh will see her; I will give to him the land on which he passed, and to his sons, because he obeyed the Lord.

37 And the Lord was angry with me for your sake, saying, 'Neither shalt thou enter there;

38 Joshua son of Nun, who is with you, he will go in there; confirm it, for it will bring Israel into its possession;

39 Your children, of whom you have said that they shall be a prey to your enemies, and your sons, who now know neither good nor evil, they shall enter there, and I will give it to them, and they shall possess it.

40 but ye shall turn and go into the wilderness, on the way to the Red Sea.

41 And you answered and said to me, 'We have sinned against the Lord [our God,] let us go and fight, as the Lord our God has commanded us. And you girded yourselves, every man with his weapons of war, and foolishly resolved to go up to the mountain.

42 But the Lord said to me, Say to them, 'Do not go up and fight, for I am not among you, lest your enemies smite you.'

43 And I have spoken unto you, but ye have not hearkened, and have resisted the command of the Lord, and have gone up into the mountain because of their obstinacy.