When the LORD heard you, he became angry and made this vow:

“耶和华听见你们这话，就发怒，起誓说：

“耶和华听见你们的怨言，就发怒，起誓说：

“耶和华听见你们的怨言，就发怒，起誓说：

“你们的埋怨惹耶和华发怒，祂起誓说，

“耶和华听见了你们说话的声音，就恼怒，起誓说：

「耶和華聽見你們這話，就發怒，起誓說：

「耶和華聽見你們的怨言，就發怒，起誓說：

「耶和華聽見你們的怨言，就發怒，起誓說：

「你們的埋怨惹耶和華發怒，祂起誓說，

“耶和華聽見了你們說話的聲音，就惱怒，起誓說：

『永恆主聽見了你們的話的語氣，就惱怒，便起誓說：

耶和華聞爾言、怒而誓曰、

耶和華聞爾言、震怒特甚、矢之曰、

主聞爾言、震怒而誓曰、

When the Lord heard what you said, he was angry and solemnly swore:

The Lord heard what you said. So he became angry. He made a promise. He said,

“ And the Lord heard your words and was angered, and he swore,

“ When the Lord heard your complaining, he became very angry. So he solemnly swore,

“ When the LORD heard your words, he grew angry and swore an oath:

“ Then the Lord heard the sound of your words, and He was angry and swore an oath, saying,

“ And the Lord heard the sound of your words, and was angry, and took an oath, saying,

And Jehovah heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,

“ When the Lord heard your words, He grew angry and swore an oath:

And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,

Yahweh heard the voice of your words and was angry, and swore, saying,

For all the people have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tempted me now these ten times, and have not obeyed me,they will by no means see the land that I swore to their fathers, nor will any of them who despised me see it.Only my servant Caleb, because he had a different spirit and has followed me fully– I will bring him into the land where he had gone, and his descendants will possess it.( Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites were living in the valleys.) Tomorrow, turn and journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.”The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:“ How long must I bear with this evil congregation that murmurs against me? I have heard the complaints of the Israelites that they murmured against me.Say to them,‘ As I live, says the LORD, I will surely do to you just what you have spoken in my hearing.Your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness– all those of you who were numbered, according to your full number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me.You will by no means enter into the land where I swore to settle you. The only exceptions are Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

“ Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness.“ There your fathers tested me and tried me, and they saw my works for forty years.“ Therefore, I became provoked at that generation and said,‘ Their hearts are always wandering and they have not known my ways.’“ As I swore in my anger,‘ They will never enter my rest!’”

So I made a vow in my anger,‘ They will never enter into the resting place I had set aside for them.’”

Your fathers did the same thing when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.When they went up to the Eshcol Valley and saw the land, they frustrated the intent of the Israelites so that they did not enter the land that the LORD had given them.So the anger of the LORD was kindled that day, and he swore,‘ Because they have not followed me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years old and upward who came from Egypt will see the land that I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua son of Nun, for they followed the LORD wholeheartedly.’So the LORD’s anger was kindled against the Israelites, and he made them wander in the wilderness for forty years, until all that generation that had done wickedly before the LORD was finished.

I also swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them to the land I had given them– a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.

Now the length of time it took for us to go from Kadesh Barnea to the crossing of Wadi Zered was thirty-eight years, time for all the military men of that generation to die, just as the LORD had vowed to them.Indeed, it was the very hand of the LORD that eliminated them from within the camp until they were all gone.