And your children shall wander. — Better, shall be shepherds, or, shall feed their flocks.
Forty years. — The forty years were reckoned from the exodus, not from the return of the spies to Kadesh. (See Numbers 14:34 and Note.)
And bear your whoredoms. — The children were doomed to bear the penalty of their fathers’ apostasy. (Comp. Exodus 34:16.)