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.

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  1. Numbers 14:33 Vg. wanderers

13 So the Lord’s anger was aroused against Israel, and He made them (A)wander in the wilderness forty years, until (B)all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the Lord was gone.

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“For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand. He knows your [a]trudging through this great wilderness. (A)These forty years the Lord your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing.” ’

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  1. Deuteronomy 2:7 Lit. goings

10 “He found him (A)in a desert land
And in the wasteland, a howling wilderness;
He encircled him, He instructed him,
He (B)kept him as the [a]apple of His eye.

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  1. Deuteronomy 32:10 pupil

For the children of Israel walked (A)forty years in the wilderness, till all the people who were men of war, who came out of Egypt, were [a]consumed, because they did not obey the voice of the Lord—to whom the Lord swore that (B)He would not show them the land which the Lord had sworn to their fathers that He would give us, (C)“a land flowing with milk and honey.”

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  1. Joshua 5:6 destroyed

10 And now, behold, the Lord has kept me (A)alive, (B)as He said, these forty-five years, ever since the Lord spoke this word to Moses while Israel [a]wandered in the wilderness; and now, here I am this day, eighty-five years old.

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  1. Joshua 14:10 Lit. walked

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