Bible fact · Direct biblical statement
Israel wandered forty years
After refusing to enter the land, Israel wandered in the wilderness forty years, one year for each day the spies explored. Numbers 14:33–34
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"After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, you will bear your iniquities, even forty years." Numbers 14:33–34
Deuteronomy says their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell during those forty years. Deuteronomy 8:2–4Deuteronomy 29:5
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Numbers 14:33–34 WEB
33Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies are consumed in the wilderness. 34After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, you will bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you will know my alienation.’
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For children
God's people travelled in the wilderness for 40 years, and God took care of them the whole time. Their clothes did not even wear out!