Numbers 14:32

32 But you, your carcasses will fall in this desert;

Numbers 14:32 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 14:32

But [as for] you, your carcasses
Which way of speaking seems to be used to distinguish them from their children; they shall fall in this wilderness:
which is repeated for the confirmation and certainty it, and an emphasis is laid on the words, this which are pronounced with an accent, to put them in mind of their wish, ( Numbers 14:2 ) .

Numbers 14:32 In-Context

30 will certainly not enter the land about which I raised my hand to swear that I would have you live in it - except for Kalev the son of Y'funeh and Y'hoshua the son of Nun.

31 But your little ones, who you said would be taken as booty - them I will bring in. They will know the land you have rejected.

32 But you, your carcasses will fall in this desert;

33 and your children will wander about in the desert for forty years bearing the consequences of your prostitutions until the desert eats up your carcasses.

34 It will be a year for every day you spent reconnoitering the land that you will bear the consequences of your offenses - forty days, forty years. Then you will know what it means to oppose me!