²⁸ Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘I will do to you the very things I heard you say:^{(A) 29} your dead bodies shall fall in this very wilderness, and of all your number included in the census from twenty years old and up who have complained against me,^{(B) 30} not one of you shall come into the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.^(C)

⁵ Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, and they were struck down in the wilderness.^(A)

⁶ Now these things occurred as examples for us, so that we might not desire evil as they did.^(A)