Thus did your fathers when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land — Moses invokes the historical parallel: the wilderness generation's faithlessness at Kadesh-barnea (ch. 13-14), where the people rejected the land and Moses sent them to scout it. The fathers' refusal to trust the LORD and enter the land resulted in thirty-eight years of wilderness wandering and death. Reuben and Gad are now repeating that pattern: preferring comfort and security to faith and covenant participation.

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