28 Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
  29 Your acarcases shall fall in
this bwilderness; and all that were numbered of you,
according to your whole number, from twenty years old and
upwarda, which have
murmured against me,
  30 Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
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29a from twenty years old and
upward When the people rebelled and would not go into the land in
the second year, Moses plead with the Lord not to destroy them. So what the
Lord did do was to allow them to live, all that were 20 years old and above
in the wilderness upwards for 40 years until all those 20 years old and up
were dead and only the younger generation, with the exception of Joshua and
Caleb, would the Lord then allow to enter into the promised land. This means
that none who entered in were older than age 60 with the exception of Caleb
and Joshua.
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