Numbers 14:33

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

And your children shall be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years and shall suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness.

Cross References

Psalm 107:4

Some wandered in desert wastes, finding no way to an inhabited town;

Psalm 107:40

he pours contempt on princes and makes them wander in trackless wastes,

Psalm 78:33

So he made their days vanish like a breath and their years in terror.

Exodus 20:5

You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents to the third and the fourth generation of those who reject me

Ezekiel 23:35

Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have forgotten me and cast me behind your back, therefore bear the consequences of your lewdness and prostitutions.

Hosea 9:1

Do not rejoice, O Israel! Do not exult as other nations do, for you have prostituted yourself, departing from your God. You have loved a prostitute’s pay on all threshing floors.

Numbers 32:13

And the Lord’s anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness for forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the Lord had disappeared.

Numbers 33:38

Aaron the priest went up Mount Hor at the command of the Lord and died there in the fortieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, on the first day of the fifth month.

Numbers 5:31

The man shall be free from iniquity, but the woman shall bear her iniquity.”

Acts 7:36

He led them out, having performed wonders and signs in Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

Deuteronomy 1:3

In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses spoke to the Israelites just as the Lord had commanded him to speak to them.

Deuteronomy 2:14

And the length of time we had traveled from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the Wadi Zered was thirty-eight years, until the entire generation of warriors had perished from the camp, as the Lord had sworn concerning them.

Deuteronomy 2:7

Surely the Lord your God has blessed you in all your undertakings; he knows your going through this great wilderness. These forty years the Lord your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing.” ’

Deuteronomy 29:5

I have led you forty years in the wilderness. The clothes on your back have not worn out, and the sandals on your feet have not worn out;

Deuteronomy 8:2

Remember the long way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, in order to humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commandments.

Deuteronomy 8:4

The clothes on your back did not wear out, and your feet did not swell these forty years.

Joshua 14:10

And now, as you see, the Lord has kept me alive, as he said, these forty-five years since the time that the Lord spoke this word to Moses, while Israel was journeying through the wilderness, and here I am today, eighty-five years old.

Joshua 5:6

For the Israelites traveled forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, the warriors who came out of Egypt, perished, not having listened to the voice of the Lord. To them the Lord swore that he would not let them see the land that he had sworn to their ancestors to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.