³³ Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years and bear the penalty for your acts of unfaithfulness until all your corpses lie scattered in the wilderness. ³⁴ You will bear the consequences of your iniquities forty years based on the number of the forty days that you scouted the land, a year for each day.^[a](A) You will know my displeasure.^{[b] 35} I, the Lord, have spoken. I swear that I will do this to the entire evil community that has conspired against me.^(B) They will come to an end in the wilderness, and there they will die.”^(C)

⁶⁴ But among them there was not one of those who had been registered by Moses and the priest Aaron when they registered the Israelites in the Wilderness of Sinai.^{(A) 65} For the Lord had said to them that they would all die in the wilderness. None of them was left except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.