Deuteronomy 1:39-41

International Standard Version

³⁹ Your little ones—whom you said would be taken captive—and your children who do not yet^[a] know right from wrong will enter the land.^[b] I will give it to them and they themselves will possess it. ⁴⁰ But as for you, prepare to set out for the desert on the way to the Reed^[c] Sea.’

⁴¹ “You responded to me and said, ‘We have sinned against the Lord. We will now go up and fight according to what the Lord our God commanded.’ So each man put on his weapon for battle and recklessly started out for the hill country.”