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The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron again, saying,

"How long shall I put up with this evil congregation who are ^(C1)grumbling against Me? I have heard the complaints of the sons of Israel which they are ^(F1)voicing against Me.

"Say to them, '^(C1)As I live,' declares the LORD, 'just as ^(C2)you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you;

^(C1)your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness, all ^(C2)your ^(F1)numbered men according to your complete number from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against Me.

'By no means will you come into the land where I ^(F1)swore to settle you, ^(C1)except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.

'^(C1)Your children, however, whom you said would become plunder—I will bring them in, and they will know the land which you have rejected.

'^(C1)But as for you, your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness.

'Also, your sons will be shepherds in the wilderness for ^(C1)forty years, and they will ^(F1)suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your bodies perish in the wilderness.

'In accordance with the ^(C1)number of days that you spied out the land, forty days, for every day you shall suffer the punishment for your ^(F1)guilt a year, that is, forty years, and you will know My opposition.

'^(C1)I, the LORD, have spoken, I certainly will do this to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. They shall be worn out in this wilderness, and there they shall die.'"