Deuteronomy 1:39-41

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³⁹ Your children, of whom you said that they should be led away captives, and your sons who know not this day the difference of good and evil, they shall go in: and to them I will give the land, and they shall possess it.

⁴⁰ But return you and go into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.

⁴¹ And you answered me: We have sinned against the Lord: we will go up and fight, as the Lord our God hath commanded. And when you went ready armed unto the mountain,