Forty years. — The forty years’ wandering was a punishment for fickleness and cowardice, but during the incidence of this judgment, of which we have only one or two events recorded in the Book of Numbers, God was disciplining and organising a tribe of restless wanderers into a nation. (Deuteronomy 32:9-13.)
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Amos 2:10
10 Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.