2:14 Now the length of time it took for us to go from Kadesh Barnea to the crossing of Wadi Zered was thirty-eight years, time for all the military men of that generation to die, just as the Lord had vowed to them.
Ibrani 3:17
3:17 And against whom was God 1 provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness? 2
1 tnGrk “he”; in the translation the referent (God) has been specified for clarity.
2 sn An allusion to God’s judgment pronounced in Num 14:29, 32.