14 And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the Lord sware unto them.

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14 Thirty-eight years(A) passed from the time we left Kadesh Barnea(B) until we crossed the Zered Valley. By then, that entire generation(C) of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the Lord had sworn to them.(D)

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64 But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.

65 For the Lord had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

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64 Not one of them was among those counted(A) by Moses and Aaron(B) the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Desert of Sinai. 65 For the Lord had told those Israelites they would surely die in the wilderness,(C) and not one of them was left except Caleb(D) son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.(E)

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28 Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the Lord, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:

29 Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward which have murmured against me.

30 Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

31 But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.

32 But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.

33 And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.

34 After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.

35 I the Lord have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.

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28 So tell them, ‘As surely as I live,(A) declares the Lord, I will do to you(B) the very thing I heard you say: 29 In this wilderness your bodies will fall(C)—every one of you twenty years old or more(D) who was counted in the census(E) and who has grumbled against me. 30 Not one of you will enter the land(F) I swore with uplifted hand(G) to make your home, except Caleb son of Jephunneh(H) and Joshua son of Nun.(I) 31 As for your children that you said would be taken as plunder, I will bring them in to enjoy the land you have rejected.(J) 32 But as for you, your bodies will fall(K) in this wilderness. 33 Your children will be shepherds here for forty years,(L) suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness. 34 For forty years(M)—one year for each of the forty days you explored the land(N)—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(O) to this whole wicked community, which has banded together against me. They will meet their end in this wilderness; here they will die.(P)

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15 Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;

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15 Also with uplifted hand I swore(A) to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands(B)

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11 Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.

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11 So I declared on oath(A) in my anger,
    ‘They shall never enter my rest.’”(B)

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34 And the Lord heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,

35 Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers.

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34 When the Lord heard(A) what you said, he was angry(B) and solemnly swore:(C) 35 “No one from this evil generation shall see the good land(D) I swore to give your ancestors,

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Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.

11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)

12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;

15 While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?

19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

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    do not harden your hearts(A)
as you did in the rebellion,
    during the time of testing in the wilderness,
where your ancestors tested and tried me,
    though for forty years they saw what I did.(B)
10 That is why I was angry with that generation;
    I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray,
    and they have not known my ways.’
11 So I declared on oath in my anger,(C)
    ‘They shall never enter my rest.’ (D)[a](E)

12 See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.(F) 13 But encourage one another daily,(G) as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.(H) 14 We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold(I) our original conviction firmly to the very end.(J) 15 As has just been said:

“Today, if you hear his voice,
    do not harden your hearts
    as you did in the rebellion.”[b](K)

16 Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?(L) 17 And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness?(M) 18 And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest(N) if not to those who disobeyed?(O) 19 So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.(P)

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 3:11 Psalm 95:7-11
  2. Hebrews 3:15 Psalm 95:7,8

26 Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:

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26 So he swore(A) to them with uplifted hand
    that he would make them fall in the wilderness,(B)

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19 And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the Lord our God commanded us; and we came to Kadeshbarnea.

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Spies Sent Out

19 Then, as the Lord our God commanded us, we set out from Horeb and went toward the hill country of the Amorites(A) through all that vast and dreadful wilderness(B) that you have seen, and so we reached Kadesh Barnea.(C)

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(There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadeshbarnea.)

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(It takes eleven days to go from Horeb(A) to Kadesh Barnea(B) by the Mount Seir(C) road.)(D)

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26 And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.

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Report on the Exploration

26 They came back to Moses and Aaron and the whole Israelite community at Kadesh(A) in the Desert of Paran.(B) There they reported to them(C) and to the whole assembly and showed them the fruit of the land.(D)

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I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.

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Though you already know all this,(A) I want to remind you(B) that the Lord[a] at one time delivered his people out of Egypt, but later destroyed those who did not believe.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Jude 1:5 Some early manuscripts Jesus

But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

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Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.(A)

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