Numbers 32:13
Good News Translation
The LORD became angry with the people and made them wander in the wilderness forty years until that whole generation that had displeased him was dead.

New Revised Standard Version
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.

Contemporary English Version
but he was so angry with the others that he forced them to wander around in the desert for 40 years. By that time everyone who had sinned against him had died.

New American Bible
So the anger of the LORD flared up against the Israelites and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the whole generation that had done evil in the sight of the LORD had disappeared.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord being angry against Israel, led them about through the desert forty years, until the whole generation, that had done evil in his sight, was consumed.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the Lord being angry against Israel, led them about through the desert forty years, until the whole generation, that had done evil in his sight, was consumed.

wander

Numbers 14:33-35 Your children shall wander in the desert forty years, and shall bear your fornication, until the carcasses of their fathers be consumed in the desert, . . .

Deuteronomy 2:14 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:

Psalm 78:33 And their days were consumed in vanity, and their years in haste.

until all

Numbers 26:64 Among whom there was not one of them that were numbered before by Moses and Aaron in the desert of Sinai.

Deuteronomy 2:15 For his hand was against them, that they should perish from the midst of the camp.

1 Corinthians 10:5 But with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the desert.

Hebrews 3:16-19 For some who heard did provoke: but not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. . . .

Context
The Tribes East of the Jordan
12Except Caleb the son of Jephone the Cenezite, and Josue the son of Nun: these have fulfilled my will. 13And the Lord being angry against Israel, led them about through the desert forty years, until the whole generation, that had done evil in his sight, was consumed.14And behold, said he, you are risen up instead of your fathers, the increase and offspring of sinful men, to augment the fury of the Lord against Israel.…
Cross References
Numbers 14:32
Your carcasses shall lie in the wilderness.

Numbers 14:33
Your children shall wander in the desert forty years, and shall bear your fornication, until the carcasses of their fathers be consumed in the desert,

Deuteronomy 2:7
The Lord thy God hath blessed thee in every work of thy hands: the Lord thy God dwelling with thee, knoweth thy journey, how thou hast passed through this great wilderness, for forty years, and thou hast wanted nothing.

Psalm 107:4
They wandered in a wilderness, in a place without water: they found not the way of a city for their habitation.

Numbers 32:12
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