Deuteronomy 2:3
'Ye have compassed these mountains long enough; turn you northward.
Deuteronomy 1:6
"The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, 'Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount:
Deuteronomy 2:7
For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thine hand, and knew thee as thou wentest through this great wilderness. Moreover, the LORD thy God hath been with thee this forty years, so that thou hast lacked nothing.'
Deuteronomy 2:14
The space in which we came from Kadesh Barnea until we were come over the river Zered was thirty eight years: until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out of the host, as the LORD sware unto them.