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34 For as many days as you explored the land, that is, forty days, just as many years you’ll bear your guilt, that is, forty years. This is how you will understand my frustration.” 35 I the Lord have spoken. I will do this to the entire wicked community who gathered against me. They will die in this desert. There they’ll meet their end.

36 The men whom Moses sent out to explore the land had returned and caused the entire community to complain against him by starting a rumor about the land.

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34 For forty years(A)—one year for each of the forty days you explored the land(B)—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(C) to this whole wicked community, which has banded together against me. They will meet their end in this wilderness; here they will die.(D)

36 So the men Moses had sent(E) to explore the land, who returned and made the whole community grumble(F) against him by spreading a bad report(G) about it—

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