Deuteronomy 2:14-16

Modern English Version

¹⁴ Now the length of time it took for us to come to Kadesh Barnea until we crossed over the brook Zered was thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of war perished from among the army, just as the Lord swore to them. ¹⁵ For indeed the hand of the Lord was against them, to destroy them from among their midst, until they were gone.

¹⁶ So it came to pass, when all the men of war were gone and dead from among the people,