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. 35 (C)I, the Lord, have spoken, I certainly will do this to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. They shall be worn out in this wilderness, and there they shall die.’”

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 14:33 Lit bear
  2. Numbers 14:34 Or wrongdoings

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.’ 35 I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will surely do these things(D) to this whole wicked community, which has banded together against me. They will meet their end in this wilderness; here they will die.(E)

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