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Deuteronomy links the delay to the end of the fighting men of the first generation, until they were “consumed” from the camp Deuteronomy 2:14–15. It also describes the wilderness period as a time of testing and discipline, showing what was in Israel’s heart Deuteronomy 8:2. The wandering is presented as both judgment and training in the book’s narrative.
14The days in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, were thirty-eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the midst of the camp, as Yahweh swore to them.
15Moreover the hand of Yahweh was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp, until they were consumed.