Num 14:33-35, Deu 2:14, Psa 78:33 | ESV | STEP | And your children shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years and shall suffer for your faithlessness , until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness .

Numbers 14:33-35

33 And your children ^ashall be shepherds in the wilderness ^bforty years and shall ^csuffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness. 34 ^dAccording to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, ^eforty days, a year for each day, you shall bear your iniquity forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.’ 35 ^fI, the Lord, have spoken. Surely this will I do to all ^gthis wicked congregation who are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall come to a full end, and there they shall die.”

Deuteronomy 2:14

14 And the time from our leaving ^hKadesh-barnea until we crossed ⁱthe brook Zered was thirty-eight years, ^juntil the entire generation, that is, the men of war, had perished from the camp, as the Lord had sworn to them.

Psalms 78:33

33 So he made ^ktheir days ^lvanish like ^{▼▼Hebrew in} a breath, ^{▼▼Or vapor}
and their years in terror.