¹⁰ And at that time the Lord was moved to wrath, and made an oath, saying,

¹¹ And the Lord said to Moses, How long will this people have no respect for me? how long will they be without faith, in the face of all the signs I have done among them?

²¹ But truly, as I am living, and as all the earth will be full of the glory of the Lord;

²³ They will not see the land about which I made an oath to their fathers; not one of these by whom I have not been honoured will see it.

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,

³⁴ And the Lord, hearing your words, was angry, and said with an oath,

³⁵ Truly, not one of this evil generation will see that good land which I said I would give to your fathers,

³⁶ But only Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, he will see it; and to him and to his children I will give the land over which his feet have gone, because he has been true to the Lord with all his heart.

³⁷ And, in addition, the Lord was angry with me because of you, saying, You yourself will not go into it:

³⁸ Joshua, the son of Nun, your servant, he will go into the land: say to him that he is to be strong, for he will be Israel's guide into their heritage.

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.

⁴⁰ But as for you, go back, journeying into the waste land by the way of the Red Sea.

¹¹ And I made an oath in my wrath, that they might not come into my place of rest.

¹⁵ And further, I gave my oath to them in the waste land, that I would not take them into the land which I had given them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands;

⁸ Be not hard of heart, as when you made me angry, on the day of testing in the waste land,

⁹ When your fathers put me to the test, and saw my works for forty years.

¹⁰ So that I was angry with this generation, and I said, Their hearts are in error at all times, and they have no knowledge of my ways;

¹¹ And being angry I made an oath, saying, They may not come into my rest.

¹² My brothers, take care that there is not by chance in any one of you an evil heart without belief, turning away from the living God:

¹³ But give comfort to one another every day as long as it is still Today; so that no one among you may be made hard by the deceit of sin:

¹⁴ For if we keep the substance of the faith which we had at the start, even till the end, we have a part with Christ;

¹⁵ As it is said, Today if you will let his voice come to your ears, be not hard of heart, as when you made him angry.

¹⁶ Who made him angry when his voice came to them? was it not all those who came out of Egypt with Moses?

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.