²⁹ In this wilderness your bodies will fall^(A)—every one of you twenty years old or more^(B) who was counted in the census^(C) and who has grumbled against me.

³⁵ I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will surely do these things^(A) to this whole wicked community, which has banded together against me. They will meet their end in this wilderness; here they will die.^(B)”

⁶ Then the Lord sent venomous snakes^(A) among them; they bit the people and many Israelites died.^(B)