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Chapter 14 resolves the question. The People cried all night. They spoke out against Moses and Aaron. "We wish we had died in Egypt." "Why has the Lord brought us out into this wilderness to die by the sward?" "We were better off back in Egypt."
When the Lord heard this He was angered. "How long will this people despise me?" "How long will they dis-believe?" "I will strike them with a pestilence and disinherit them." But Moses said to the Lord, "The Egyptians will hear of this and they will say, as will the nations of the earth, the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land that He had promised them, therefore, He slayed them in the wilderness." "I beg of you, as in the past, forgive these people."
Then the Lord said, "You are right, I will pardon these people, but as sure as I live, none of the men whom I brought out of Egypt, shall see the land I promised them, none but my servant Caleb, he I will bring into the land and his descendants shall possess it."
"You shall wander in the wilderness for 40 years for your faithlessness." Eleven of the men who were sent to spy out the land, those who didn't have the faith to enter, died of a plague. Of the 12 men, only Caleb lived to enter the Promise Land.
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