² And all the sons of Israel ^(A)grumbled against Moses and Aaron; and the entire congregation said to them, “^(B)If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or even if we had died in this wilderness!

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. ^15 (D)Indeed, the hand of the Lord was against them, to destroy them from within the camp until they all perished.

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