![]() Deut 2:7 Indeed, YHWH your God has blessed you in all your undertakings. ![]() ![]() Instead of being a punishment where the people perish in the wilderness, the forty-year journey is conceived as God’s demonstration of his wonders for the people, keeping them in good condition for so many years. While Deuteronomy is aware of a forty-year wilderness wandering, it makes no mention of the demise of the congregation during or at the end of the journey. Time in the Wilderness: A Demonstration of God’s Wonders 14:32 But your carcasses shall drop in this wilderness, 14:33 while your children roam the wilderness for forty years, suffering for your faithlessness, until the last of your carcasses is down in the wilderness. 14:31 Your children who, you said, would be carried off, these will I allow to enter they shall know the land that you have rejected. Num 14:29 In this very wilderness shall your carcasses drop…. Although Moses succeeds in convincing God to forgive the Israelites, the story ends with a severe punishment for the generation of the exodus: במדבר יד:כט בַּמִּדְבָּר הַזֶּה יִפְּלוּ פִגְרֵיכֶם. After Moses sends twelve spies to scout out the land and bring back pertinent information, they return with tales of the great power of the natives there, and the Israelites are scared and refuse to enter the land. ![]() ![]() Numbers 13–14 describes the punishment of the generation of the wilderness. The Scouts Story and the Wilderness Wandering ![]()
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