Bamidbar 14:41

41 And Moshe said, Why now do ye transgress the utterance of Hashem? This will not succeed.

Bamidbar 14:41 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 14:41

And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the
commandment of the Lord?
&c.] Which was to turn back into the wilderness, and go the way that leads to the Red sea, ( Numbers 14:25 ) ; instead of which now they were for going forward into the land of Canaan, though averse to it just before: but it shall not prosper;
their attempt to enter into it.

Bamidbar 14:41 In-Context

39 And Moshe told these sayings unto Kol Bnei Yisroel: and HaAm mourned greatly.

40 And they rose up early in the boker, and went up into the height of the hill country, saying, Behold, we are here, and will go up unto the place which Hashem hath promised: for we have sinned.

41 And Moshe said, Why now do ye transgress the utterance of Hashem? This will not succeed.

42 Go not up, for Hashem is not among you; that ye be not struck down before your enemies.

43 For the Amaleki and the Kena’ani are there before you, and ye shall fall by the cherev: because ye are turned away from Hashem, therefore Hashem will not be with you.