Joshua 5:4

And this is the reason why Joshua circumcised them: All the people that had come out of Egypt, that were males, even all the men of war, had died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt.

Numbers 26:64-65

And among these there was not a man of those whom Moses and Aaron the priest had numbered when they numbered the sons of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.

Deuteronomy 2:16

So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people

1 Corinthians 10:5

But with many of them God was not pleased; therefore, they were overthrown in the wilderness.

Numbers 14:22

Because all those men who saw my glory and my signs which I have done in Egypt and in the wilderness and have tempted me now these ten times and have not hearkened to my voice,

Deuteronomy 2:14

And the days in which we came from Kadeshbarnea until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty-eight years until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the camp, as the LORD swore unto them.

Hebrews 3:17-19

But with whom was he indignant forty years? Was it not with those that had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

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And this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: All the people that came out of Egypt, that were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt.

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Numbers 14:22
Because all those men who saw my glory and my signs which I have done in Egypt and in the wilderness and have tempted me now these ten times and have not hearkened to my voice,
Numbers 26:64
And among these there was not a man of those whom Moses and Aaron the priest had numbered when they numbered the sons of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
Deuteronomy 2:16
So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people
1 Corinthians 10:5
But with many of them God was not pleased; therefore, they were overthrown in the wilderness.
Hebrews 3:17
But with whom was he indignant forty years? Was it not with those that had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?