³⁴ According to the ^(A)number of days which you spied out the land, forty days, for every day you shall bear your ^[a]guilt a year, even forty years, and you will know My opposition. ^35 (B)I, Yahweh, have spoken, surely this I will do to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. In this wilderness they shall come to an end, and there they will die.’”

^36 (C)As for the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land and who returned and made all the congregation grumble against him by bringing out a bad report concerning the land,