³ ‘You have skirted this mountain ^(A)long enough; turn northward.

⁶ “The Lord our God spoke to us ^(A)in Horeb, saying: ‘You have dwelt long ^(B)enough at this mountain.

¹⁴ And the time we took to come ^(A)from Kadesh Barnea until we crossed over the Valley of the Zered was thirty-eight years, ^(B)until all the generation of the men of war ^[a]was consumed from the midst of the camp, ^(C)just as the Lord had sworn to them.

⁷ “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.” ’