⁴ And this is the reason why Joshua did so: all the males of the people who came out of Egypt, all the fighting-men, had been overtaken by death in the waste land on the way, after they came out of Egypt.

⁶⁴ But among all these was not one of those numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when the children of Israel were numbered in the waste land of Sinai.

⁶⁵ For the Lord had said of them, Death will certainly overtake them in the waste land. And of them all, only Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, the son of Nun, were still living.

¹⁶ So when death had overtaken all the men of war among the people,

⁵ But with most of them God was not pleased: for they came to their end in the waste land.

²² Because all these men, having seen my glory and the signs which I have done in Egypt and in the waste land, still have put me to the test ten times, and have not given ear to my voice;

¹⁴ Thirty-eight years had gone by from the time when we came away from Kadesh-barnea till we went over the stream Zered; by that time all the generation of the men of war among us were dead, as the Lord had said.

¹⁷ And with whom was he angry for forty years? was it not with those who did evil, who came to their deaths in the waste land?

¹⁸ And to whom did he make an oath that they might not come into his rest? was it not to those who went against his orders?

¹⁹ So we see that they were not able to go in because they had no belief.