31-34 “Your children, the very ones that you said would be taken for plunder, I’ll bring in to enjoy the land you rejected while your corpses will be rotting in the wilderness. These children of yours will live as shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, living with the fallout of your whoring unfaithfulness until the last of your generation lies a corpse in the wilderness. You scouted out the land for forty days; your punishment will be a year for each day, a forty-year sentence to serve for your sins—a long schooling in my displeasure.

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32 But as for you, your bodies will fall(A) in this wilderness. 33 Your children will be shepherds here for forty years,(B) suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness. 34 For forty years(C)—one year for each of the forty days you explored the land(D)—you will suffer for your sins and know what it is like to have me against you.’

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