Deuteronomy 1:3
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3 In the fortieth year,[a] on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses spoke to the Israelites according to all that the Lord had commanded him to speak to them,
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Deuteronomy 2:7
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7 Surely, the Lord, your God, has blessed you in all your undertakings; he has been concerned[a] about your journey through this vast wilderness. It is now forty years that the Lord, your God, has been with you, and you have lacked nothing.(A)
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Deuteronomy 29:4
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4 (A)I led you for forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes did not fall from you in tatters nor your sandals from your feet;
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Psalm 95:10
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10 Forty years I loathed that generation;
I said: “This people’s heart goes astray;
they do not know my ways.”(A)
Amos 2:10
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10 It was I who brought you up from the land of Egypt,
and who led you through the desert for forty years,
to occupy the land of the Amorites;
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