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34 The number of days that you explored the land was forty, and there will be one year for each day. You will bear the burden of your sins for forty years and you will come to know my rejection.[a] 35 I, the Lord, have proclaimed this. I will surely do this to this evil assembly that has gathered together against me. In this wilderness they will come to an end, there they will die.”

36 The men whom Moses sent to explore the land, and who, when they returned, incited the assembly to complain against him by giving an evil report concerning the land,

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 14:34 The Lord metes out punishment on the unfaithful people, condemning them to die in the desert as they had wished.

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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