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)

36 So the men Moses sent to scout out the land, and who returned and incited the entire community to complain about him by spreading a negative report about the land—

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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

34 For forty years(A)—one year for each of the forty days you explored the land(B)—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(C) to this whole wicked community, which has banded together against me. They will meet their end in this wilderness; here they will die.(D)

36 So the men Moses had sent(E) to explore the land, who returned and made the whole community grumble(F) against him by spreading a bad report(G) about it—

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