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Nu 32:8 King James Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadeshbarnea to see the land.

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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
Your fathers - The generation of the Exodus was now substantially extinct. Compare Num 26:64-65.

Kadesh-barnea - See Num 13:26.
 
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26 And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.
64 But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
65 For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.