34 In accordance with the (A)number of days that you spied out the land, forty days, for every day you shall suffer the punishment for your [a]guilt a year, that is, forty years, and you will know My opposition. 35 (B)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.’”

36 (C)As for the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, and who returned and led all the congregation to grumble against him by bringing a bad report about the land,

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 14:34 Or wrongdoings

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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