33 And your sons shall (A)be [a]shepherds in the wilderness (B)forty years, and (C)bear the brunt of your infidelity, until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness. 34 (D)According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, (E)forty days, for each day you shall bear your [b]guilt one year, namely forty years, (F)and you shall know My [c]rejection. 35 (G)I the Lord have spoken this. I will surely do so to all (H)this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.’ ”

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 14:33 Vg. wanderers
  2. Numbers 14:34 iniquity
  3. Numbers 14:34 opposition

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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