From Numbers 14. When the Israelites turned away from entering the land that God had promised, they brought a punishment on themselves. God told them that everyone who had grumbled against God and had rejected his promise would not be able to enter the land, but would die in the wilderness. Their children would have to live as shepherds for forty years in the wilderness until the older generation had all died. Now, the Israelites wanted to change their minds and go into the land, but would they succeed without Moses, and without the Lord?
