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After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, you will bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you will know my alienation.’
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 34. Revenge. Hebrew “my breach of promise, or if my threats be vain,” and so forth Septuagint “you shall know the fury of my anger.” Calmet.—I will convince you by the severity with which I shall execute this sentence, that you had no reason to distrust my former promises. S. Jerom (in Ezec. xx.) entertains hopes of the eternal salvation of many of these Hebrews, who had time to do penance for their sins.
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