Deuteronomy 1:39-41

Evangelical Heritage Version

³⁹ Your toddlers, who you said would become plunder of war, and your children, who today do not yet know good and evil, will enter there. I will give it to them and they will take possession of it. ⁴⁰ But you, turn around and travel into the wilderness toward the Red Sea.”^[a]

⁴¹ Then you answered me, “We have sinned against the Lord. We will go up and fight, just as the Lord our God commanded us to do.” So each man among you strapped on his weapons of war, and you thought it would be easy to go up to the hill country.