“The days in which we came from Kadesh Barnea until we had come over the brook Zered were thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the middle of the camp, as the LORD swore to them.”

Reading this verse in context

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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.