Deuteronomy 1:40-42

Contemporary English Version

⁴⁰ Now, turn around and go back into the desert by way of Red Sea^[a] Road.

⁴¹ Then you told me, “We disobeyed the Lord our God, but now we want to obey him. We will go into the hill country and fight, just as he told us to do.” So you picked up your weapons, thinking it would be easy to take over the hill country.

⁴² But the Lord said, “Moses, warn them not to go into the hill country. I won't help them fight, and their enemies will defeat them.”