Numbers 14:33
Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.
And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
Note wander: or, feed
Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies are consumed in the wilderness.
And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whoredoms, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- shall wander in the wilderness
- or, feed. This implies, that they should move from place to place in the deserts, as the Bedounin Arabs, who have no certain dwelling, but rove about seeking pasture for their flocks.
- Numbers 32:13; Joshua 14:10; Psalm 107:4, 40
- forty years
- Numbers 33:38; Deuteronomy 1:3; Deuteronomy 2:14
- bear
- Numbers 5:31; Jeremiah 3:1, 2; Ezekiel 23:35, 45–49; Hosea 9:1