31 (A)Your children, however, whom you said would become plunder—I will bring them in, and they will know the land which you have rejected. 32 (B)But as for you, your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness. 33 Also, your sons will be shepherds in the wilderness for (C)forty years, and they will [a]suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your bodies perish in the wilderness. 34 In accordance with the (D)number of days that you spied out the land, forty days, for every day you shall suffer the punishment for your [b]guilt a year, that is, forty years, and you will know My opposition. 35 (E)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.’”

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 14:33 Lit bear
  2. Numbers 14:34 Or wrongdoings

31 But your children whom you said would become plunder, I will bring in, and they will know the land which you have despised and rejected. 32 But as for you, your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness. 33 Your sons shall be wanderers and shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness (spiritual infidelity), until your corpses are consumed in the wilderness. 34 According to the number of days in which you spied out the land [of Canaan], forty days, for each day, you shall bear and suffer a year for your sins and guilt, for forty years, and you shall know My displeasure [the revoking of My promise and My estrangement because of your sin]. 35 I, the Lord, have spoken. I will most certainly do this to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed [by war, disease, and plagues], and here they shall die.’”(A)

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