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Numbers 14:29

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All of you will die in this desert, everyone who was registered in the census that counted those aged twenty or over, because you made complaints against me.

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So he raised his hand to give them a serious warning that he would bring them down in the wilderness,

So he snuffed out their futile lives, bringing them to an end in terror.

I will get rid of those of you who rebel against me, those who sin against me. I will lead them out of the country where they're currently living, but they won't enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

In this way all the Israelite men aged twenty or older who were able to serve in Israel's army were registered according to their families.

The sum total of those registered was 603,550.

However, they did not include a single one who had previously been censused by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Sinai Desert,

because the Lord had told them that they would all die in the desert. No one was left except Caleb, son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, son of Nun.

However, God wasn't happy with most of them, and they perished in the desert.

The time it took for us to travel from Kadesh-barnea to when we crossed over the Brook of Zered was thirty-eight years. By this time the entire generation of warriors had died and were no longer part of the camp, as the Lord had sworn to them would happen.

Who was God upset with for forty years? Wasn't it those who sinned, those who were buried in the desert?

For forty years the Israelites traveled through the wilderness until all the men of fighting age when they left Egypt had died, because they had not done what the Lord had told them to do. So the Lord had vowed that he would not let them see the land he had promised their forefathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Even though you already know this, I want to remind you that though the Lord saved his people out of the land of Egypt, later he still destroyed those who disbelieved.




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