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The Bible does not state explicitly how long this journey should have taken, but in the Book of Exodus beginning in chapter 32, it strongly suggest the journey would be quite short. It is only about 200 kilometers and even with a group between 600,000 to 3 million people, the Israelites would have begun to enter into Canaan within 2 weeks on foot - with the remaining forces continuing onward for probably another couple of weeks.

As with all people, even though the Israelites saw great miracles from God and had a very special leader in Moses, they soon tired of the delays and wanted to end the journey to begin anew as quickly as possible. Their thick headedness (testing God 10 times - see Numbers 14:22) caused delays and punishment which forbade the present generation from entering the Promised Land as they wandered in the desert for 40 years. The story is presented in Numbers 12 through 14 also.

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