¹³ And the Lord said, “Now get up and cross the Zered Valley.^(A)” So we crossed the valley.

¹⁴ Thirty-eight years^(A) passed from the time we left Kadesh Barnea^(B) until we crossed the Zered Valley. By then, that entire generation^(C) of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the Lord had sworn to them.^(D)