Hebrews 3:17

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With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn't it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

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Egypt was the land where Israel had been enslaved before God delivered them through the Exodus. Hebrews recalls the generation that left Egypt but provoked God in the wilderness through unbelief, so that their corpses fell before entering the promised land.

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