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Numbers 14:29

New Living Translation

You will all drop dead in this wilderness! Because you complained against me, every one of you who is twenty years old or older and was included in the registration will die.

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Therefore, he solemnly swore that he would kill them in the wilderness,

So he ended their lives in failure, their years in terror.

I will purge you of all those who rebel and revolt against me. I will bring them out of the countries where they are in exile, but they will never enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

They were registered by families—all the men of Israel who were twenty years old or older and able to go to war.

The total number was 603,550.

Not one person on this list had been among those listed in the previous registration taken by Moses and Aaron in the wilderness of Sinai.

For the Lord had said of them, “They will all die in the wilderness.” Not one of them survived except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

Yet God was not pleased with most of them, and their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.

“Thirty-eight years passed from the time we first left Kadesh-barnea until we finally crossed the Zered Brook! By then, all the men old enough to fight in battle had died in the wilderness, as the Lord had vowed would happen.

And who made God angry for forty years? Wasn’t it the people who sinned, whose corpses lay in the wilderness?

The Israelites had traveled in the wilderness for forty years until all the men who were old enough to fight in battle when they left Egypt had died. For they had disobeyed the Lord, and the Lord vowed he would not let them enter the land he had sworn to give us—a land flowing with milk and honey.

So I want to remind you, though you already know these things, that Jesus first rescued the nation of Israel from Egypt, but later he destroyed those who did not remain faithful.




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