Numbers 14:28-29

14:28 Say to them, ‘As I live, ¹  says ²  the Lord, I will surely do to you just what you have spoken in my hearing. ³  14:29 Your dead bodies ⁴  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.

Numbers 26:2

26:2 “Take a census of the whole community of Israelites, from twenty years old and upward, by their clans, ⁵  everyone who can serve in the army of Israel.” ⁶ 

Numbers 26:64-65

26:64 But there was not a man among these who had been ⁷  among those numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they numbered the Israelites in the wilderness of Sinai. 26:65 For the Lord had said of them, “They will surely die in the wilderness.” And there was not left a single man of them, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

Deuteronomy 1:35

1:35 “Not a single person ⁸  of this evil generation will see the good land that I promised to give to your ancestors!

Deuteronomy 2:14-15

2:14 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. 2:15 Indeed, it was the very hand of the Lord that eliminated them from within ⁹  the camp until they were all gone.

¹ sn Here again is the oath that God swore in his wrath, an oath he swore by himself, that they would not enter the land. “As the Lord lives,” or “by the life of the Lord,” are ways to render it.

² tn The word נְאֻם (nÿ’um) is an “oracle.” It is followed by the subjective genitive: “the oracle of the Lord” is equal to saying “the Lord says.”

³ tn Heb “in my ears.”

⁴ tn Or “your corpses” (also in vv. 32, 33).

⁵ tn Heb “house of their fathers.”

⁶ tn Heb “everyone who goes out in the army in Israel.”

⁷ tn “who had been” is added to clarify the text.

⁸ tn Heb “Not a man among these men.”

⁹ tn Heb “from the middle of.” Although many recent English versions leave this expression untranslated, the point seems to be that these soldiers did not die in battle but “within the camp.”