Deuteronomy 2:14
Good News Translation
This was thirty-eight years after we had left Kadesh Barnea. All the fighting men of that generation had died, as the LORD had said they would.

New Revised Standard Version
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.

Contemporary English Version
This was 38 years after we left Kadesh-Barnea, and by that time all the men who had been in the army at Kadesh-Barnea had died, just as the LORD had said they would.

New American Bible
Now thirty-eight years had elapsed between our departure from Kadesh-barnea and the crossing of the Wadi Zered; in the meantime the whole generation of soldiers had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn they should.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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:

Kadesh-barnea

Deuteronomy 1:2,19,46 Eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir to Cadesbarne. . . .

Numbers 13:26 And came to Moses and Aaron and to all the assembly of the children of Israel to the desert of Pharan, which is in Cades. And speaking to them and to all the multitude, they shewed them the fruits of the land:

until all the generation

Deuteronomy 1:34,35 And when the Lord had heard the voice of your words, he was angry and swore, and said: . . .

Numbers 14:28-35 Say therefore to them: As I live, saith the Lord: According as you have spoken in my hearing, so will I do to you. . . .

Numbers 26:64,65 Among whom there was not one of them that were numbered before by Moses and Aaron in the desert of Sinai. . . .

Numbers 32:11 If these men, that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land, which I promised with an oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: because they would not follow me,

Psalm 90:3,9 Turn not man away to be brought low: and thou hast said: Be converted, O ye sons of men. . . .

Psalm 95:11 And these men have not known my ways: so I swore in my wrath that they shall not enter into my rest.

Ezekiel 20:15 So I lifted up my hand over them in the desert, not to bring them into the land which I had given them flowing with milk and honey, the best of all lands.

Hebrews 3:8-19 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the desert, . . .

Jude 1:5 I will therefore admonish you, though ye once knew all things, that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, did afterwards destroy them that believed not.

Context
Wanderings in the Wilderness
13Then rising up to pass the torrent Zared, we came to it. 14And 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:15For his hand was against them, that they should perish from the midst of the camp.…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 10:5
But with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the desert.

Numbers 14:28
Say therefore to them: As I live, saith the Lord: According as you have spoken in my hearing, so will I do to you.

Numbers 14:29
In the wilderness shall your carcasses lie. All you that were numbered from twenty years old and upward, and have murmured against me,

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

Numbers 26:65
For the Lord had foretold that they should die in the wilderness. And none remained of them, but Caleb the son of Jephone, and Josue the son of Nun.

Deuteronomy 1:34
And when the Lord had heard the voice of your words, he was angry and swore, and said:

Deuteronomy 1:35
Not one of the men of this wicked generation shall see the good land, which I promised with an oath to your fathers:

Deuteronomy 1:46
So you abode in Cadesbarne a long time.

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.

Deuteronomy 2:13
Then rising up to pass the torrent Zared, we came to it.

Deuteronomy 2:16
And after all the fighting men were dead,

Joshua 5:4
Now this is the cause of the second circumcision: All the people that came out of Egypt that were males, all the men fit for war, died in the desert, during the time of the long going about in the way:

Joshua 5:6
During the forty years of the journey in the wide wilderness, were uncircumcised: till all they were consumed that had not heard the voice of the Lord, and to whom he had sworn before, that he would not shew them the land flowing with milk and honey.

Joshua 24:7
And the children of Israel cried to the Lord: and he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them. Your eyes saw all that I did in Egypt, and you dwelt in the wilderness a long time.

Psalm 90:15
We have rejoiced for the days in which thou hast humbled us: for the years in which we have seen evils.

Psalm 106:26
And he lifted up his hand over them: to overthrow them in the desert;

Deuteronomy 2:13
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