Will your brothers go to war?

6But Moses said to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben, “Shall your brothers go to war while you sit here?”

7And why do you discourage the hearts of the sons of Israel from crossing over into the land that Yahweh has given them?

8This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land:

9They went up as far as the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, and they discouraged the heart of the sons of Israel from going into the land that Yahweh had given them.

10So Yahweh’s anger burned on that day, and he swore, saying,

11Surely none of the men who came up from Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land that I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, because they have not fully followed me.

12except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua son of Nun, because they fully followed Yahweh.

13So Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of Yahweh had come to an end.

14And behold, you have risen up in your fathers’ place, a brood of sinful men, to add still more to the burning anger of Yahweh against Israel.

15For if you turn back from following him, he will again leave him in the wilderness, and you will bring ruin on all this people.