The Report of the Spies

²⁵ At the end of forty days they returned from spying out the land.

²⁸ He was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.^[a](A)

³³ And your children shall be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years and shall suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness.^{(A) 34} According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, for every day a year, you shall bear your iniquity, forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.’^(B)

¹⁸ Moses entered the cloud and went up on the mountain. Moses was on the mountain for forty days and forty nights.^(A)