Deuteronomy 2:3
You have been journeying round this mountain long enough: now go to the north;
Deuteronomy 1:6
The Lord our God said to us in Horeb, You have been long enough in this mountain:
Deuteronomy 2:7
For the blessing of the Lord your God has been on you in all the work of your hands: he has knowledge of your wanderings through this great waste: these forty years the Lord your God has been with you, and you have been short of nothing.
Deuteronomy 2:14
Thirty-eight years had gone by from the time when we came away from Kadesh-barnea till we went over the stream Zered; by that time all the generation of the men of war among us were dead, as the Lord had said.