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.’

¹⁷ And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness?^(A)