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Nu 14:20: And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word:

Nu 14:21: But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD.

Nu 14:22: Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;

Nu 14:23: Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:

Nu 14:24: But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.

Nu 14:25: (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To morrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.

Nu 14:26: And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

Nu 14:27: How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.

Nu 14:28: Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you: 

Nu 14:29: Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,

Nu 14:30: Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. 

Nu 14:31: But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised. 

Nu 14:32: But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.

Nu 14:33: And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.

Nu 14:34: After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.

Nu 14:35: I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.[[Category:Bible Topic]]