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And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
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"How long shall
1this wicked congregation grumble against me?
2I have heard the grumblings of the people of Israel, which they grumble against me.
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Say to them,
3'As I live, declares the LORD,
4what you have said in my hearing I will do to you:
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5your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and
6of all your number, listed in the census
7from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against me,
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not one shall come into the land where I
8swore that I would make you dwell,
9except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.
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10But your little ones, who you said would become a prey, I will bring in, and they shall know the land that
11you have rejected.
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But as for you,
12your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.
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And your children
13shall be shepherds in the wilderness
14forty years and shall
15suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness.
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16According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land,
17forty days, a year for each day, you shall bear your iniquity forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.'