²³ not one of them will ever see the land I promised on oath^(A) to their ancestors. No one who has treated me with contempt^(B) will ever see it.^(C)

³⁰ Not one of you will enter the land^(A) I swore with uplifted hand^(B) to make your home, except Caleb son of Jephunneh^(C) and Joshua son of Nun.^(D)

³² But as for you, your bodies will fall^(A) in this wilderness.

⁶⁵ For the Lord had told those Israelites they would surely die in the wilderness,^(A) and not one of them was left except Caleb^(B) son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.^(C)

¹³ The Lord’s anger burned against Israel^(A) and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the whole generation of those who had done evil in his sight was gone.^(B)

⁵ Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.^(A)

¹⁷ And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness?^(A)

⁵ Though you already know all this,^(A) I want to remind you^(B) that the Lord^[a] at one time delivered his people out of Egypt, but later destroyed those who did not believe.^(C)