Numbers 14:33

And like shepherds wander around in the desert as they take care of their sheep, your children will wander around in this desert for 40 years. Because you adults were not loyal/faithful to me, your children will suffer until you all die in the desert.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.

In Context

32But as for you adults, you will die here in this desert.

34You will suffer for your sins for 40 years. That will be one year for each of the 40 days that the twelve men explored Canaan land. And I will be like an enemy to you.’

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Cross References

Numbers 32:13So Yahweh was angry with the Israeli people, and as a result he has caused us to wander in this desert for 40 years. Finally, all the people who had sinned against Yahweh by refusing to trust him died, one by one.

Deuteronomy 1:3Forty years after ◄the Israelis/we► left Egypt, in the middle of January, Moses/I told the Israeli people everything that Yahweh had commanded him/me to tell them.

Joshua 5:6Our Israeli ancestors traveled around in the desert for 40 years, and all the men who were old enough to be soldiers had died. The women had also died. They had not obeyed Yahweh, so Yahweh said that they would not arrive at the land that he had promised to our ancestors that he would give to us, a land that was very fertile [MTY].

Psalms 78:33So, he caused their lives to end as quickly as a puff of wind ends; they died when disasters suddenly struck them.

Psalms 107:40Yahweh shows contempt for the leaders who oppress them, and causes them to wander in deserts where there are no roads.

Ezekiel 23:35Therefore, this is what I, Yahweh the Lord, say: ‘Because you have forgotten me and rejected me [IDM], you must be punished for your immoral behavior and for being like a prostitute.’”

Matthew Henry on Numbers 14:21-36

God's Answer to Moses; The Israelites Threatened. ( b. c. 1490.) 20 And the Lord said, I have pardoned according to thy word: 21 But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord . 22 Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; 23 Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see… Read the whole commentary →

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