According to the number of the days you have investigated this land, forty days -- one day for a year -- you will suffer for your iniquities, forty years, and you will know what it means to thwart me.

They returned from investigating the land after forty days.

and your children will wander in the wilderness forty years and suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your dead bodies lie finished in the wilderness.

So the Lord’s anger was kindled against the sons of Israel (Jacob) and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the entire generation of those who had done evil in the sight of the Lord was destroyed.

[Among] the cities which you give to the Levites shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall provide for the one who commits manslaughter to flee to; and in addition to them you shall give forty-two cities [to the Levites].

So you shall give to the Levites forty-eight cities in all, together with their pasture lands.

those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty-six thousand five hundred.

those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Gad, were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.

those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand five hundred.

those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Asher, were forty-one thousand five hundred.

His division, and those who were numbered of it, were forty-six thousand five hundred.

His division, and those who were numbered of them, were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.

His division, and those who were numbered of them, were forty thousand five hundred.

His division, and those who were numbered of them, were forty-one thousand and five hundred.

These are the families of the Reubenites; and those who were numbered of them were forty-three thousand seven hundred thirty.

These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those who were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.

These are the sons of Benjamin after their families; and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand six hundred.

These are the families of Naphtali according to their families; and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand four hundred.