For we who have believed enter the rest, in keeping with what he has said, So I swore in my anger, ‘They will not enter my rest,’ , even though his works have been finished since the foundation of the world.
The time we spent travelling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the Zered Valley was thirty-eight years until the entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the Lord had sworn to them.
I, the Lord, have spoken. I swear that I will do this to the entire evil community that has conspired against me. They will come to an end in the wilderness, and there they will die.’