Numbers 14:34-36

New International Version - UK

³⁴ For forty years – one year for each of the forty days you explored the land – you will suffer for your sins and know what it is like to have me against you.” ³⁵ I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will surely do these things to this whole wicked community, which has banded together against me. They will meet their end in this wilderness; here they will die.’

³⁶ So the men Moses had sent to explore the land, who returned and made the whole community grumble against him by spreading a bad report about it –