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.

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.

¹⁵ For the hand of the Lord was against them, working their destruction, till all were dead.

¹ And the Lord said to Moses in the waste land of Sinai, in the Tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they came out of the land of Egypt,

² Take the full number of the children of Israel, by their families, and by their fathers' houses, every male by name;

²⁹ Your dead bodies will be stretched out in this waste land; and of all your number, all those of twenty years old and over who have been crying out against me,

³ Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal-peor: for destruction came from the Lord on all those among you who went after Baal-peor.

⁴ But you who kept faith with the Lord are living, every one of you, today.

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

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?