And the time that we journeyed from Cadesbarne till we passed over the torrent Zared was thirty-eight years: until all the generation of the men that were fit for war was consumed out of the camp, as the Lord had sworn.
So I lifted up my hand over them in the desert, not to bring them into the land which I had given them flowing with milk and honey, the best of all lands.
Behold, said he, I have delivered it to you: go in and possess it, concerning which the Lord swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that he would give it to them, and to their seed after them.