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34 “Then Yahweh heard the sound of your words, and he was angry, and he swore, saying,[a] 35 ‘No one of these men[b] of this evil generation will see the good land that I swore to give to your ancestors,[c] 36 except Caleb, the son of Jephunneh; he himself[d] shall see it, and to him I will give the land upon which he has trodden and to his sons[e] because he followed Yahweh unreservedly.’[f]

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 1:34 Literally “to say”
  2. Deuteronomy 1:35 The beginning of an oath in Hebrew; the text emphatically denies anyone of that evil generation the privilege of seeing the promised land
  3. Deuteronomy 1:35 Or “fathers”
  4. Deuteronomy 1:36 Emphatic use of the pronoun
  5. Deuteronomy 1:36 Or “descendants”
  6. Deuteronomy 1:36 Literally “he filled his hands after Yahweh”