A matter of months, at most.
Deuteronomy (chapter 1). It speaks of a particular distance, not the entire time they were in the wilderness (which was forty years).
The children of Israel, consisting of 600,000 footmen, plus women and children and old men were sustained in the wilderness for 40 years on manna and water from the rock, and living in tents and their shoes and clothes did not wear out.
It is a noun so can serve as subject, object, or indirect object; object of a verb or a verb phrase; object of an adjective; object of an adverb or an adverbial phrase. For forty years the children of Israel did sojurn in the wilderness.
In the King James version we read Exo 16:1 And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt. and Exo 16:15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat. and Exo 16:35 And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan. So they got the manna one month and fifteen days after they left Egypt, and they got it for forty years - so forty years, one month and fifteen days - but this is usually rounded off to 'forty years' when people speak of it.
40 years of wandering in the wilderness far from established habitats
Jesus fasted in the desert for 40 days.Answer:Jesus' successful resistance of temptation in the desert after 40 days of fasting is a direct typological contrast with the disobedience of the Israelites that resulted in their 40 years of wandering in the wilderness. In remaining faithful to His Father, Jesus did what Israel was unable to do.
40 years ......... Actually, it was supposed to take 11 days! Disobedience and lack of trust kept them wandering around for an extra 39 years ... until that generation had died out and only Joshua and Caleb were left.
The children of Israel could have reached the Promised Land almost 40 years earlier.
It does not. No one serves in the army before eighteen years of age.
Moses died in the desert around 1450BC....he lived 120 years....40 years with Pharoah....40 years in the desert and 40 years wandering with the children of Israel....So the Red Sea was parted 40 years before Moses death or 40 years before Joshua took the children of Israel into the promised land.....So around 1490BC
The Jews spent 40 years in the wilderness.
He got the people freedom from Egypt, and took them 40 years in the wilderness to the promised land, he got them the ten commandments, and pleaded to God when they made the golden calf.