³⁵ The Israelites ate manna^(A) forty years,^(B) until they came to a land that was settled; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.^(C)

³³ Your children will be shepherds here for forty years,^(A) suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.

⁴² But God turned away from them^(A) and gave them over to the worship of the sun, moon and stars.^(B) This agrees with what is written in the book of the prophets:

¹⁸ for about forty years he endured their conduct^[a](A) in the wilderness;^(B)

¹² See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.^{(F) 13} But encourage one another daily,^(G) as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.^{(H) 14} We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold^(I) our original conviction firmly to the very end.^{(J) 15} As has just been said:

¹⁶ Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?^{(L) 17} And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness?^{(M) 18} And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest^(N) if not to those who disobeyed?^{(O) 19} So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.^(P)