After many trials they get to the edge of the Promised Land. Moses sends spies into the land to survey it and bring back a report.  Only two bring back a good report the rest are negative. Because the people can’t trust God to deliver the land into their hands He tells them that they will have to wander the wilderness for the next forty years. So for the next forty years Moses herds the human sheep in the wilderness. Not one of them enters the Promised Land, except for the two spies who gave the good report, Joshua and Caleb.