“After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.”
By the number of the days you explored the land — forty days — you will suffer for your sins one year for each day, for forty years, and you will know my displeasure' — the mathematical precision (forty days of spying = forty years of wilderness) echoes God's justice system: the punishment corresponds exactly to the sin. The wilderness sentence becomes a pedagogy of faith.
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