Israel wanders in the wilderness
EpochTravel2,515–2,555 AH40 years
Dating
- Start — Numbers 14:33. The year Israel's time of wandering in the wilderness began is the year of the Exodus = 2515
- End — Joshua 1:1. The year Israel's time of wandering in the wilderness ended is the year they began wandering (2515) + 40 years (2 years at Sinai + 38 years wandering in the desert) = 2555
Notes
START:This event is keyed off of the The_Exodus event. The Exodus 16:35 passage connects the beginning of the forty years with year they began eating mannah shortly after the Exodus. [Shulman date p93] [Ussher date p39] END:The Israelites forty-year period of wandering included the two years at Sinai building the tabernacle. It is in that second year that the twelve men are sent to spy out the Land (NUM 13:1). Moses specifies the thirty-eight year wandering period in Deuteronomy 2:14. [Shulman date p93] [Ussher date p50]
Years are anno hominis — counted from Creation as year 1 — which is the frame the source computes in. The arithmetic behind each boundary is given above rather than assumed.