33 Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years and bear the penalty for your acts of unfaithfulness until all your corpses lie scattered in the wilderness. 34 You will bear the consequences of your iniquities forty years based on the number of the forty days that you scouted the land, a year for each day.[a](A) You will know my displeasure.[b] 35 I, the Lord, have spoken. I swear that I will do this to the entire evil community that has conspired against me.(B) They will come to an end in the wilderness, and there they will die.”(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 14:34 Lit a day for the year, a day for the year
  2. 14:34 Or my opposition

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. 34 For forty years(B)—one year for each of the forty days you explored the land(C)—you will suffer for your sins and know what it is like to have me against you.’ 35 I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will surely do these things(D) to this whole wicked community, which has banded together against me. They will meet their end in this wilderness; here they will die.(E)

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