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Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies are consumed in the wilderness.
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Verse 33. Years. Within five days from the departure out of Egypt, ( Menochius.) and above 38 from this time. Hebrew “they shall be shepherds,” without any fixed dwelling, like the shepherds of that country.—Consumed. They had complained that Chanaan consumed and devoured its inhabitants. Calmet.—Their children underwent a temporal, but salutary, punishment for their sin. Saint Augustine ep. 75. Worthington.
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