SEV Biblia, Chapter 5:6
Porque los hijos de Israel anduvieron por el desierto cuarenta aņos, hasta que toda la gente de los hombres de guerra que habían salido de Egipto, fue consumida, por cuanto no escucharon la voz del SEŅOR; por lo cual el SEŅOR les jurķ que no les dejaría ver la tierra, de la cual el SEŅOR había jurado a sus padres que nos la daría, tierra que fluye leche y miel.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 6. For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness , etc.] Wanting a few days, the round number is given: not forty two, as the Septuagint version: till all the people [that were] men of war, which came out of Egypt , were consumed ; all that were above twenty years of age, excepting Joshua and Caleb: because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord ; but murmured against him, and against his servants, and particularly against Aaron, being the high priest; and chiefly because of the report of the spies, and their murmurs then, which so incensed the Lord against them, that he threatened them with an entire consumption of their carcasses, and which accordingly was fulfilled, to which the following clause refers: unto whom the Lord sware, that he would not show them the land which the Lord sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey ; (see Numbers 14:23,24).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-9 - How dreadful is their case, who see the wrath of God advancing toward them, without being able to turn it aside, or escape it! Such will be the horrible situation of the wicked; nor can words express the anguis of their feelings, or the greatness of their terror. Oh that they woul now take warning, and before it be too late, flee for refuge to la hold upon that hope set before them in the gospel! God impressed thes fears on the Canaanites, and dispirited them. This gave a short rest to the Israelites, and circumcision rolled away the reproach of Egypt They were hereby owned to be the free-born children of God, having the seal of the covenant. When God glorifies himself in perfecting the salvation of his people, he not only silences all enemies, but roll back their reproaches upon themselves.
Original Hebrew
כי 3588 ארבעים 705 שׁנה 8141 הלכו 1980 בני 1121 ישׂראל 3478 במדבר 4057 עד 5704 תם 8552 כל 3605 הגוי 1471 אנשׁי 376 המלחמה 4421 היצאים 3318 ממצרים 4714 אשׁר 834 לא 3808 שׁמעו 8085 בקול 6963 יהוה 3068 אשׁר 834 נשׁבע 7650 יהוה 3068 להם לבלתי 1115 הראותם 7200 את 853 הארץ 776 אשׁר 834 נשׁבע 7650 יהוה 3068 לאבותם 1 לתת 5414 לנו ארץ 776 זבת 2100 חלב 2461 ודבשׁ׃ 1706
