The Bible in Basic English BBE
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26 Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
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The LORD said to Moses and Aaron:
27 How long am I to put up with this evil people and their outcries against me? The words which they say against me have come to my ears.
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“How long will this wicked community grumble against me? I have heard the complaints of these grumbling Israelites.
28 Say to them, By my life, says the Lord, as certainly as your words have come to my ears, so certainly will I do this to you:
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So tell them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you the very thing I heard you say:
29 Your dead bodies will be stretched out in this waste land; and of all your number, all those of twenty years old and over who have been crying out against me,
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In this wilderness your bodies will fall—every one of you twenty years old or more who was counted in the census and who has grumbled against me.
30 Not one will come into the land which I gave my word you would have for your resting-place, but only Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, the son of Nun.
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Not one of you will enter the land I swore with uplifted hand to make your home, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
31 And your little ones, whom you said would come into strange hands, I will take in, and they will see the land which you would not have.
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As for your children that you said would be taken as plunder, I will bring them in to enjoy the land you have rejected.
32 But as for you, your dead bodies will be stretched in this waste land.
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But as for you, your bodies will fall in this wilderness.
33 And your children will be wanderers in the waste land for forty years, undergoing punishment for your false ways, till your bodies become dust in the waste land.
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Your children will be shepherds here for forty years, suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.
34 And as you went through the land viewing it for forty days, so for forty years, a year for every day, you will undergo punishment for your wrongdoing, and you will see that I am against you.
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For forty years—one year for each of the forty days you explored the land—you will suffer for your sins and know what it is like to have me against you.’
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