³³ Also, your sons will be shepherds in the wilderness for ^(A)forty years, and they will ^[a]suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your bodies perish in the wilderness. ³⁴ In accordance with the ^(B)number of days that you spied out the land, forty days, for every day you shall suffer the punishment for your ^[b]guilt a year, that is, forty years, and you will know My opposition.

^13 (A)So the Lord’s anger burned against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness for forty years, until the entire generation of those who had done evil in the sight of the Lord came to an end.

¹⁴ Now the ^[a]time that it took for us to come from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the ^[b]Wadi Zered was ^(A)thirty-eight years, until ^(B)all the generation of the men of war perished from within the camp, just as ^(C)the Lord had sworn to them.