Deuteronomy 1:39-41

Expanded Bible

³⁹ “Your little children that you said would be ·captured [plunder], who do not know right from wrong at this time, will go into the land. I will give the land to them, and they will ·take it for their own [possess it]. ⁴⁰ But you must turn ·around [^Lface] and follow the ·desert [wilderness] road toward the ·Red [or Reed] Sea [Ex. 10:19].”

⁴¹ Then you said to me, “We have sinned against the Lord, but now we will go up and fight, as the Lord our God commanded us.” Then all of you put on weapons, thinking it would be easy to go into the mountains.