²⁸ So tell them, ‘As surely as I live,^(A) declares the Lord, I will do to you^(B) the very thing I heard you say: ²⁹ In this wilderness your bodies will fall^(C)—every one of you twenty years old or more^(D) who was counted in the census^(E) and who has grumbled against me. ³⁰ Not one of you will enter the land^(F) I swore with uplifted hand^(G) to make your home, except Caleb son of Jephunneh^(H) and Joshua son of Nun.^(I)

⁵ Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.^(A)

⁶ Now these things occurred as examples^(A) to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did.