³¹ And your little ones, whom you said would come into strange hands, I will take in, and they will see the land which you would not have.

²⁴ They were disgusted with the good land; they had no belief in his word;

³⁹ And your little ones, who, you said, would come into strange hands, your children, who now have no knowledge of good or evil, they will go into that land, and to them I will give it and it will be theirs.

¹⁶ And that there may not be any evil liver, or any man without respect for God, like Esau, who let his birthright go for a plate of food.

¹⁷ For you have knowledge that even long after, when he was desiring the blessing for his heritage, he was turned away, though he made his request frequently and with weeping; because the past might not be changed.

⁴¹ See, you doubters, have wonder and come to your end; for I will do a thing in your days to which you will not give belief, even if it is made clear to you.

⁵ But they gave no attention, and went about their business, one to his farm, another to his trade:

³⁰ They had no desire for my teaching, and my words of protest were as nothing to them.

²⁵ You were not controlled by my guiding, and would have nothing to do with my sharp words:

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.

⁶ Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.

³ Why is the Lord taking us into this land to come to our death by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will get into strange hands: would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?

³⁴ Then Jacob gave him bread and soup; and he took food and drink and went away, caring little for his birthright.