“I the Lord have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.”
I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will surely do these things to all this wicked community, which has banded together against me. They will meet their end in this wilderness; here they will die' — God's final pronouncement seals the judgment with the formula 'I, the LORD, have spoken' (ani YHWH); the community's conspiracy ('banded together against me'—hikahlelu alai) becomes their epitaph, a generation united in apostasy rather than faith.
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