²⁷ “How long will these evil ·people [community; congregation; assembly] ·complain [grumble] about me? I have heard the ·complaining [grumbling] of these ·Israelites [^Lsons/^Tchildren of Israel]. ²⁸ So tell them, ‘This is ·what the Lord says [^Lthe utterance/decree of the Lord]. I heard what you said, and as surely as I live, I will do those very things to you: ²⁹ ·You will die [^LYour dead bodies will fall] in this ·desert [wilderness]. Every one of you who is twenty years old or older [^Cof military age] and who was counted with the people [1:1–54]—all of you who ·complained [grumbled] against me—will die. ³⁰ Not one of you will enter the land where I ·promised [^Llifted my hand; ^Cas when swearing an oath] you would live; only Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun will go in. ³¹ You said that your children would be ·taken away [war plunder], but I will bring them into the land to enjoy what you refused. ³² As for you, ·you will die [^Lyour bodies will fall] in this ·desert [wilderness]. ³³ Your children will be shepherds here for forty years. Because you were ·not loyal [unfaithful; ^Cthe term suggests sexual unfaithfulness as a metaphor of spiritual unfaithfulness], they will suffer until ·you lie dead [the last of your bodies lie] in the ·desert [wilderness]. ³⁴ For forty years you will suffer for your sins—a year for each of the forty days you ·explored [spied on] the land. You will know me as your enemy.’ ³⁵ I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will certainly do these things to all ·these evil people [this evil community/congregation/assembly] who have come together against me. So they will all die here in this ·desert [wilderness].”