Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY

Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY

Numbers 14:33

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
- 33 And YOUR sons will become shepherds* in the wilderness+ forty years, and they will have to answer for YOUR acts of fornication,*+ until YOUR carcasses come to their end in the wilderness.+

Deuteronomy 29:5

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
- 5 ‘While I kept guiding YOU forty years in the wilderness,+ YOUR garments did not wear out upon YOU, and your sandal did not wear out upon your foot.+

Joshua 5:6

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
- 6 For the sons of Israel had walked forty years+ in the wilderness, until all the nation of the men of war who came out of Egypt that did not listen to the voice of Jehovah had come to its finish, to whom Jehovah swore that he would never let them see the land+ that Jehovah had sworn to their forefathers to give to us,+ a land flowing with milk and honey.+

Psalm 95:10

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
- 10 For forty years I kept feeling a loathing toward [that]* generation,+
  And I proceeded to say:
  “They are a people wayward at heart,+
  And they themselves have not come to know my ways”;+

Acts 7:36

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
- 36 This man led them out+ after doing portents and signs in Egypt+ and in the Red Sea+ and in the wilderness for forty years.+

Acts 13:18

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
- 18 And for a period of about forty years+ he put up with their manner of action in the wilderness.