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But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.

Numbers 14:31

The Sentence of Forty Years

I. In context 4,985 passages · 1,189 chapters

The Passage Numbers 14:20-35

20 And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word:

21 But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD.

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The Chapter Numbers 14

1 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.

2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!

3 And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?

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II. Study deeper 942 articles

Major Old Testament Narratives & Events The Twelve Spies and the Report from Canaan Twelve men saw the same land and ten of them saw giants: Numbers 13 and 14, the minority report of Caleb and Joshua, and the forty years it cost. Begin reading

Major New Testament Narratives & Events Jesus and the Children: "Suffer the Little Children to Come unto Me" Major Old Testament Narratives & Events The Oppression of the Israelites in Egypt Book Introductions An Introduction to Obadiah: Judgment on Edom Key People of the Bible (Character Studies) Ishmael: Father of a Great Nation

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