⁴² But ^(A)God turned away and ^(B)gave them over to worship ^(C)the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets:

¹⁸ And for about ^(A)forty years ^(B)he put up with^[a] them in the wilderness.

³⁵ The people of Israel ^(A)ate the manna for forty years, till they came to a habitable land. They ate the manna till ^(B)they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

³³ And your children ^(A)shall be shepherds in the wilderness for ^(B)forty years and shall ^(C)suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness. ^34 (D)According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, ^(E)forty days, a year for each day, you shall bear your iniquity for forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.’

¹⁷ And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, ^(A)whose bodies fell in the wilderness?