Israel began wandering in the wilderness
The sons of Israel ate the manna FORTY YEARS, until they came to an inhabited land; they ate the manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan. (EXO 16:35) 'Your sons shall be shepherds for forty years in the wilderness, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your corpses lie in the wilderness. 'According to the number of days which you spied out the land, forty days, for every day you shall bear your guilt a year, even FORTY YEARS, and you will know My opposition. (NUM 14:33-34) "So the LORD'S anger burned against Israel, 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. (NUM 32:13) For the sons of Israel walked FORTY YEARS in the wilderness, until all the nation, that is, the men of war who came out of Egypt, perished because they did not listen to the voice of the LORD, to whom the LORD had sworn that He would not let them see the land which the LORD had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey. (JOS 5:6)