This verse shares succinctly the material of Numbers 14:31–35. The children of the Horeb generation will enter the Promised Land. This generation is characterized as below the age of discernment, not knowing the difference between right and wrong; that is, they are not yet morally responsible, and therefore they become recipients of the inheritance of the land.
39 Et vos petits enfants, dont vous avez dit: Ils deviendront une proie! et vos fils, qui ne connaissent aujourd'hui ni le bien ni le mal, ce sont eux qui y entreront, c'est à eux que je le donnerai, et ce sont eux qui le posséderont.